With a name like Tempest Storm, you expect fireworks\u2014and she delivered. Fiery red hair, a stare that could stop a room, and a career that ran for more than sixty years turned a small-town runaway into the queen of an art form.<\/p>\n
She began as Annie Blanche Banks, born on Leap Day 1928 in Eastman, Georgia, where poverty and abuse were part of the landscape. At fourteen she ran, married a<\/p>\n
Marine to free herself legally, and saw it annulled a day later. By fifteen she\u2019d tried again, this time to a shoe salesman. None of it quieted the drumbeat in her chest: Hollywood.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles gave her a new life\u2014and a new name. A casting agent tossed out, \u201cTempest Storm.\u201d The alternative was \u201cSunny Day.\u201d She chose the lightning. While cocktail waitressing, a customer asked if she did striptease. She didn\u2019t even know what that was. A few months later, she did\u2014and discovered she could turn a room into a held breath. Read more below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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