During the 1920s, Sally acted on stage and appeared in silent films. Cecil B. DeMille gave her the name Sally Rand, inspired by a Rand McNally atlas. She was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1927.After the introduction of sound film, she became a dancer, known for the fan dance, which she popularized starting at the Paramount Club. Her most famous appearance was at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair entitled Century of Progress. She had been arrested four times in a single day during the fair due to perceived indecent exposure while riding a white horse down the streets of Chicago, but the nudity was only an illusion. She also conceived and developed the bubble dance, in part to cope with wind while performing outdoors.She performed the fan dance on film in Bolero, released in 1934.In 1936, she purchased The Music Box burlesque hall in San Francisco, which would later become the Great American Music Hall. She starred in Sally Rand's Nude Ranch at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco in 1939 and 1940.She appeared in the late 1950s in an episode of To Tell the Truth with host Bud Collyer and panelists Polly Bergen, Ralph Bellamy, Kitty Carlisle, and Carl Reiner. She did not stump the panel but was correctly identified by all four panelists.She continued to appear on stage doing her fan dance into her sixties. Rand once replaced an ill Ann Corio in the stage show This Was Burlesque during the 1960s. Rand appeared at the Mitchell Brothers in San Francisco in the early 1970s. Later in the history of burlesque would appear exotic dancers Tempest Storm and Blaze Starr.Sally Rand died in 1979 in Glendora, California, aged 75.(taken from Wikipedia)