Title:
El Rey Burlesk [picture] / photo by M. W. McDonald.
Creator:
McDonald, Marshall W., 1919-
Subject:
Theaters - California - Oakland - Pictorial works.
Striptease - California - History
- Pictorial works.
Burlesque (theater) - California - Oakland - Pictorial works.
Storm, Tempest, 1928- - Pictorial works.
El Rey Theater (Oakland, Calif.) - Pictorial
works.
Description:
Title from item. Tempest Storm (born Annie Blanche Banks) met Russ Meyer during
during her debut performance at The El Rey Theater in Oakland in 1950. Their partnership
helped launch them both to stardom, she as a pin-up model and striptease performer, Meyer as a
cheesecake publisher and filmmaker. The photograph captures the exterior and marquee of the El
Rey Theater at 3520 San Pablo Avenue in Oakland during Storm's final return performance in
Oakland.
Publisher:
Oakland Public Library
Date:
1957
Type:
image
Format:
1 photograph : col. ; 13 x 9 cm.
Identifier:
copl_138
Source:
Ted Wurm Collection.
Coverage:
Oakland (Calif.) - History - Pictorial works ; Oakland (Calif.) - Buildings,
structures, etc. - Pictorial works.
Rights:
copyrighted
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Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Marshall W. McDonald.
The photograph is in the collection of Ted Wurm. Information regarding copyright and
reproduction rights is available from the executors of that estate.
1967