Blaze Starr recalls burlesque era in new film

Former star of The Block is living the quiet life in W.Va.
By Frederick N. Rasmussen (Baltimore Sun, May 15, 2010)

Once the Queen of Baltimore burlesque, Fannie Belle Fleming — better known as Blaze Starr — has been living the quiet life in rural West Virginia for more than 30 years now, far away from the blinking neon signs, barkers and strippers of The Block.

The Block was her venue, where she reigned supreme for more than 20 years. She is still fondly remembered by generations of gents, sans wife or girlfriend, traveling salesmen and servicemen all out for a night on the town, and for the rose petals that she gently blew across her ample bosom to admiring audiences from the runway of her Two O’Clock Club.

“Honey, I loved it but everything has its season,” Starr said in a telephone interview the other day, not far from Twelve Pole Creek, W.Va., where she grew up in a family with 11 children.

Starr, who left home at age 15 in 1947, boarded a bus for Washington and went to work as a waitress in a doughnut shop.

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