Blaze Starr (born Fannie Belle Fleming in West Virginia) is one of our native land's most famous strippers. Even more than for her burlesque act, she is remembered for her affair with one of America's most colorful politicians, Earl Long of Louisiana.
Starr became known for her work at a Baltimore nightspot called the Two O'Clock Club, which she later bought. The voluptuous redhead was doing her act in New Orleans in 1959 when she met that state's governor, Mr. Long, and the two struck up a long-lasting romance.
In a move that seemed just right in the wonderful world of Louisiana politics, Long's wife, Blanche, had the old boy commited to a mental facility, a place where many a politician would fit right in.
Starr published her memoirs in 1974, and the movie "Blaze," starring Paul Newman and Lolita Davidovich, appeared in 1989.
The law of gravity being what it is, Starr departed the stage in the early 1980s and studied gemology in addition to owning her old Baltimore club.
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