Blog: BURLESK: As You Like It!
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tags: 1950s, Kalantan, beginnings, burlesque, magazine photo, showgirl, stripper, vintage, name change, Lillian Hunt, FOLLIES Theatre, Los Angeles, I Leen
“Heavenly” Kalantan Mary Ellen Tillotson was born in Fresno, California; on March 3, 1928. She was the youngest of 5 children. Like many others in Burly-Q, she got her start in the chorus line of L.A.’s ‘FOLLIES Theatre’
tags: 1950s, Kalantan, beginnings, burlesque, magazine photo, showgirl, stripper, vintage, name change, Lillian Hunt, FOLLIES Theatre, Los Angeles, I Leen