Tempest Storm Autographs
Tempest Storm (born Annie Blanche Banks; February 29, 1928 – April 20, 2021), also dubbed "The Queen Of Exotic Dancers," was an American burlesque star, stripper and motion picture actress. Along with Lili St. Cyr, Sally Rand and Blaze Starr, she was one of the best-known burlesque performers of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Her career as an exotic dancer spanned more than 60 years and she was still performing in the early 21st century.
Tempest Storm was born Annie Blanche Banks on February 29, 1928, in Eastman, Georgia. She left school in seventh grade, and in 2016, she revealed that she had been sexually abused around that time. At 14, she worked as a waitress in Columbus, Georgia, where she quickly married a U.S. Marine in order to emancipate herself from her parents; she had the marriage annulled after 24 hours. At 15, she married a Columbus shoe salesman, whose sister worked with her at a hosiery mill. Storm said in a 1968 interview with film reviewer Roger Ebert that after six months in that marriage, "I just left one day. I still had it in my mind to go to Hollywood. I couldn't get it out of my system."
In Los Angeles circa 1945 at age 17, Storm worked as a carhop waitress at Simon's Drive-In and then as a cocktail waitress, though still underage. A patron suggested she consider striptease as a profession, and arranged an audition with Follies Theater talent manager Lillian Hunt. Three weeks after being hired as a chorus dancer at $40 a week (equivalent to $715 in 2025), Storm accepted a promotion to $60 (equivalent to $1,073 in 2025) as a stripper. A week afterward, she recalled in 1968, Hunt said she needed a stage name:
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Traded items with a signature of Tempest Storm
The most expensive item with a signature of Tempest Storm (Burlesque TEMPEST STORM & BETTIE PAGE Signed Autograph (READ)) was sold in February 2026 for $400.00 while the cheapest item (Tempest Storm Burlesque Dancer autographed 3x5 index card signed) found a new owner for $0.99 in October 2016. The month with the most items sold (21) was April 2025 with an average selling price of $24.98 for an autographed item of Tempest Storm. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in May 2026 with $181.74 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.99 was September 2015. In average, an autographed item from Tempest Storm is worth $24.98.
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