Nude dancer Joan Meller, 24, was in Montreal seventy years ago this month with her little dog, Fifi.
A touring danceuse with the Folies Bergeres in Paris and the best New York establishments,
Meller had an unusual gimmick that built her a solid following, while putting her very life at risk (isn't it always that way?). They called her the Radium Girl, because she used to powder her body with radioactive radium and perform a glow-in-the-dark act.
Although she got a lot of publicity for it, she eventually canned that part of her routine after being hospitalized with radium poisoning.
She'd be 94 if alive today.
She was my grandmas sister , a real survivor
ReplyDeleteShe was my grandmas sister a hell of a survivor
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