Exclusive // Tempest Storm

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Tempest Storm is a documentary profiling the life of its titular burlesque icon. The film premiered at this year’s Hot Docs Film Festival where we had the chance to talk to Tempest and the film’s director, Nimisha Mukerji.

Tempest Storm was mistress to both Elvis and JFK, and became an international star on the stage and screen in the 1950s. At the age of 87 she is considered to be the greatest living burlesque dancer, but her success came at a great personal cost. Exploring her dramatic rise to fame as an entertainer and her swift fall from grace after pursuing an interracial marriage, “Tempest Storm” is a feature documentary that bares all to tell the controversial life story of an American sex icon.

Tempest Storm is rated PG.