Directed by: Irving Klaw
Stars: Bettie Page, Tempest Storm, Trudy Wayne, Vicki Lynn, Cherrie Knight, Chris LaChris, Twinnie Wallen, Dave Starr, Joe E. Ross, Lolly Dorsen, Honey Baer, Bobby Shields
Language: English
Country: Usa | Imdb Info
Description: Teaserama is less a traditional movie than a filmed burlesque revue — a colorful stage-show snapshot from the mid-1950s, built around dance numbers, striptease routines, corny comedy interludes, and the playful presence of Bettie Page.
The film opens its curtain on a fantasy version of old burlesque: a cheap but lively stage where glamour, tease, and broad vaudeville humor all share the same spotlight. Bettie Page acts as a cheerful hostess, introducing the performers with placards and giving the show its most memorable personality. She may not be the most polished dancer on the stage, but her natural camera flirtation and mischievous charm make her impossible to ignore.
The main attraction is a parade of performers, including Tempest Storm, Chris La Chris, Twinnie Wallen, Trudy Wayne, Vicki Lynn, and Cherry Knight. Each act brings a different flavor of 1950s burlesque: slow glamour posing, playful costume removal, novelty movement, theatrical attitude, and old-school bump-and-grind showmanship. Between the dance routines, comedians Joe E. Ross and Dave Starr deliver deliberately broad gag material that feels like it wandered in from a fading vaudeville circuit.
By modern standards, Teaserama is mild, stagy, and almost innocent in its idea of scandal. But that is exactly what makes it fascinating. Its appeal is not heat or narrative tension, but preservation. It captures a form of adult entertainment that existed before the grindhouse explosion, before the sexual revolution, and before later exploitation cinema pushed everything further.
What remains is a charmingly artificial little world of curtains, cards, costumes, bad jokes, and iconic silhouettes — a burlesque postcard from a vanished era.
Legacy Note:
Teaserama survives as one of the key filmed showcases of Bettie Page’s screen persona and 1950s burlesque culture. Produced and directed by Irving Klaw, the film belongs to the pre-hardcore, pre-ratings-code world of “art theatre” tease films, where suggestion mattered more than explicitness and the promise of naughtiness was often stronger than the content itself.
Its historical value is considerable. Page appears not only as a performer but as the connective tissue of the show, while Tempest Storm represents the professional burlesque star power of the period. The comedy routines may creak, and the staging may feel cheap, but the film remains a rare moving-image record of a stage tradition that would soon be overtaken by changing tastes, television, and more aggressive forms of adult entertainment. For cult-film viewers, it is less a plot-driven feature than a preserved piece of mid-century American nightlife — playful, artificial, and unmistakably of its time.
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