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Toni Elling- Satin Doll is a [[American burlesque|burlesque]] dancer. She was born in [[Detroit]] to Joseph and Myrtle Sims, the eldest of three children.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|title = SO BURLESQUE: SO BURLESQUE: INTERVIEW WITH LEGEND OF BURLESQUE TONI ELLING|url = http://www.soburlesqueblog.com/2011/11/aujourdhui-un-petit-evenement-chez.html|website = www.soburlesqueblog.com|access-date = 2016-02-02}}</ref> She was unhappy with her job as a telephone operator at The Michigan Bell Telephone Company where she had worked for 9 years, because she could not get promotion being an African American. She got into burlesque dancing in 1960, when she was 32 years old after her friend Rita Revere suggested she get into stripping, and continued performing until the early 1970s.<ref name="auto"/> She married but she soon divorced, as her husband was abusive. They had no children.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|title = Burlesque legend Toni Elling to visit Windsor|url = http://windsorstar.com/life/burlesque-legend-toni-elling-to-visit-windsor|website = Windsor News - Breaking News & Latest Headlines {{!}} Windsor Star|access-date = 2016-02-02|language = en-US}}</ref> She took her name from her friend and confidant, bandleader [[Duke Ellington]]. She was also friends with the likes of [[Sammy Davis Jr.]] and fighter [[Joe Louis]].<ref name="auto1"/> She would never take off her panties in her act or wear a g-string because, “It’s entertainment, yes, but the idea is to suggest what’s there, not throw off all your clothes and reveal everything. That’s why they call it strip-tease.”
'''Toni Elling- Satin Dol'''l is a [[American burlesque|burlesque]] dancer. She was born in [[Detroit]] to Joseph and Myrtle Sims, the eldest of three children.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|title = SO BURLESQUE: SO BURLESQUE: INTERVIEW WITH LEGEND OF BURLESQUE TONI ELLING|url = http://www.soburlesqueblog.com/2011/11/aujourdhui-un-petit-evenement-chez.html|website = www.soburlesqueblog.com|access-date = 2016-02-02}}</ref> She was unhappy with her job as a telephone operator at The Michigan Bell Telephone Company where she had worked for 9 years, because she could not get promotion being an African American. She got into burlesque dancing in 1960, when she was 32 years old after her friend Rita Revere suggested she get into stripping, and continued performing until the early 1970s.<ref name="auto"/> She married but she soon divorced, as her husband was abusive. They had no children.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|title = Burlesque legend Toni Elling to visit Windsor|url = http://windsorstar.com/life/burlesque-legend-toni-elling-to-visit-windsor|website = Windsor News - Breaking News & Latest Headlines {{!}} Windsor Star|access-date = 2016-02-02|language = en-US}}</ref> She took her name from her friend and confidant, bandleader [[Duke Ellington]]. She was also friends with the likes of [[Sammy Davis Jr.]] and fighter [[Joe Louis]].<ref name="auto1"/> She would never take off her panties in her act or wear a g-string because, “It’s entertainment, yes, but the idea is to suggest what’s there, not throw off all your clothes and reveal everything. That’s why they call it strip-tease.”


More recently,{{when|date=February 2016}} she was inducted into the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas.<ref name="auto1"/>
More recently,{{when|date=February 2016}} she was inducted into the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas.<ref name="auto1"/>

Revision as of 00:23, 20 August 2016

Toni Elling- Satin Doll is a burlesque dancer. She was born in Detroit to Joseph and Myrtle Sims, the eldest of three children.[1] She was unhappy with her job as a telephone operator at The Michigan Bell Telephone Company where she had worked for 9 years, because she could not get promotion being an African American. She got into burlesque dancing in 1960, when she was 32 years old after her friend Rita Revere suggested she get into stripping, and continued performing until the early 1970s.[1] She married but she soon divorced, as her husband was abusive. They had no children.[2] She took her name from her friend and confidant, bandleader Duke Ellington. She was also friends with the likes of Sammy Davis Jr. and fighter Joe Louis.[2] She would never take off her panties in her act or wear a g-string because, “It’s entertainment, yes, but the idea is to suggest what’s there, not throw off all your clothes and reveal everything. That’s why they call it strip-tease.”

More recently,[when?] she was inducted into the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "SO BURLESQUE: SO BURLESQUE: INTERVIEW WITH LEGEND OF BURLESQUE TONI ELLING". www.soburlesqueblog.com. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
  2. ^ a b c "Burlesque legend Toni Elling to visit Windsor". Windsor News - Breaking News & Latest Headlines | Windsor Star. Retrieved 2016-02-02.