12 Facts About Tempest Storm

Tempest Storm was born Annie Blanche Banks on February 29,1928, in Eastman, Georgia.

In Los Angeles circa 1945 at age 17, Tempest Storm worked as a carhop waitress at Simon's Drive-In and then as a cocktail waitress, though still underage.

Three weeks after being hired as a chorus dancer at $40 a week, Tempest Storm accepted a promotion to $60 as a stripper.

Tempest Storm was a regular performer for many years at El Rey, a burlesque theater in Oakland, California, as well as at clubs around the United States, including in Las Vegas.

Tempest Storm was featured in numerous men's magazines and burlesque movies, including French Peep Show, Paris After Midnight, Striptease Girl, Teaserama, and Buxom Beautease.

In 1954, Tempest Storm was restrained from billing herself as the "$50,000 Hollywood Treasure Chest" following a successful suit brought by the "Treasure Chest Girl" Evelyn West.

Storm told her life story to writer Bill Boyd, whose transcriptions of her dictations formed the 1987 book Tempest Storm: The Lady Is a Vamp.

Tempest Storm was inducted into the Burlesque Hall of Fame, where one of her G-strings is part of the museum's display.

Tempest Storm officially retired from regular performance in 1995 at the age of 67, but continued making occasional stage performances.

Tempest Storm performed at the annual Burlesque Hall of Fame Pageant events at least through 2010.

Tempest Storm appears in the 2016 Nimisha Mukerji's documentary film Tempest Storm.

Tempest Storm resided in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she died on April 20,2021, aged 93, following a short illness.