BETTIE PAGE TEASERAMA / VARIETEASE 4K BLU-RAY

Kino Cult + Something Weird Present TEASERAMA and VARIETEASE starring pin-up queen BETTIE PAGE! Also includes BUXOM BEAUTEASE and STRIPTEASE REVEALED!

      Experience the golden age of burlesque in this titillating triple feature of 1950s grindhouse classics, newly restored from the original negatives. BETTIE PAGE shares the screen with striptease legend TEMPEST STORM in the holy grails of full-color burlesque films: Varietease (1954) and Teaserama (1955). Directed by girlie-pix impresario IRVING KLAW, the dance card includes performances by strip queens LILI ST. CYR, tantalizing TRUDY WAYNE, and “female impersonator” VICKIE LYNN, interspersed with obligatory appearances by baggy-pants comics and sunny songsters. Concluding the trilogy is Klaw’s Buxom Beautease (1956), which incorporates the short color film Striptease Revealed, and features incendiary performances by BLAZE STARR and DORIAN DENNIS. Working with original film elements from the Sonney Amusement Enterprises Film Collection with cooperation from the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Kino Lorber has performed meticulous 4K restorations of these essential films, introducing them to a new generation of burlesque aficionados.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Reversible cover with Bettie Page illustration by Rev. Eric Eye and the other side features a classic SWV style cover by Lisa Petrucci
• Includes the SWV Editions of Varietease and Teaserama
• Audio Commentary for Teaserama by Jo Weldon, author of The Burlesque Handbook
• Audio Commentary for Varietease by film historian Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
• Archival Audio Commentary for the SWV Editions of Varietease and TEASERAMA by David F. Friedman and SWV founder Mike Vraney
• Theatrical Trailers