Above, a promo image of famed burlesque dancer Tempest Storm, she of the legendary 50-inch bust. She was born as Annie Blanche Banks (also a very good name for a stripper, we think) today (well, actually tomorrow, but there’s no tomorrow this year) in 1928. This photo is undated but probably was made around 1955.

We couldn’t just call French actress Catherine Spaak—what was it?—ah, yes, the word was “heavenly.” Well, we get all flowery when we do movie reviews. But whatever, we couldn’t call her that and leave you with just a few fuzzy, helmet-haired stills of her from Il gatto a nove code to form your impression, so here she is again in a 1968 promo shot. It’s a bit amazing, don’t you think, how much hair changed in just two years? Watch what we mean. Directly below: 1970. 

We’re reaching a bit farther back than usual for a femme fatale with this great Alfred Cheney Johnston image of Jacqueline Schalley, aka Jacqueline Schally, a Folies Bergère and Ziegfeld dancer who was once chosen the “Fairest Girl in France.” Based on that distinction she was sent to the U.S. to do a nationwide publicity tour before competing in New York City in an international beauty pageant. No word on whether she won, but then again, the judges probably never saw her like this. Photo is from 1927.

Above is a nice studio shot of legendary burlesque dancer Lili St. Cyr from Modern Man magazine of August 1956. St. Cyr, who we’ve written about extensively, died today in 1999. The image came from the blog Vintage Scans. 

Above, an exceedingly rare Japanese poster of French actress Annie Belle, née Annie Brilland, promoting her role in the 1976 Italian erotic drama Laure. Belle made about thirty films, mostly in Italy, and today is a social worker. We have another poster of similar style we’ll try to get up later. 

This sci-fi themed photo shows British actress Lorna Wilde, who appeared in such films as The Body Stealers and Son of Dracula. She’s seen here in an image from the British glamour magazine Girl Illustrated, probably 1971 or 1972. 

One never hears her name mentioned today, but Italian actress Isa Miranda, née Ines Isabella Sampietro, was one of the most popular performers of her time. She was a star throughout Europe during the 1930s, and during World War II continued to act in Italian films. As a result, she is linked to fascist cinema, though is not known to be a fascist sympathizer herself. Ultimately she carved out a fifty year career and earned a Best Actress award at the 1949 Cannes Film Festival for René Clément’s Le mura di Malapaga. She’s seen here circa 1935.  

Above is a rare Christina Lindberg shot showing her crawling across the sands of some desert or other. It's from the 1973 photo book This Is Christina Lindberg, which was shot by her soon-to-be husband Bo Sehlberg. Sehlberg, for all his good taste in models/wives, refused to allow Lindberg to be shot by another photographer and pressured her into giving up her movie career. So that blows. Anyway, we have still more rare Lindbergs and we’ll get to those later.

Update: If you visit this site a lot you may remember there were two images of Lindberg posted here. We've obviously removed one of them. We just were not happy with the quality of that scan. For Ms. Lindberg, only the best. We'll see about getting it back up later, but if you really want to see it that shouldn't be a problem—it's on about five hundred Tumblr sites with no credit given to Pulp Intl. whatsoever.