Vamos Chile: Noelia Arias

Noelia Arias, better known by her stage name Licenciada Tetarelli, was one of Latin America's foremost vedettes back in the day. Making her debut on La Red's Vamos Chile in the early 2000s, she spent most of her appearances stripping down to her bra and panties before a live audience (a skill she picked up during her waitressing days, apparently). 

 

In common with many of her contemporaries, she was usually paired with a couple of gross, bumbling straight men who talked her out of her clothes the moment she stepped foot on stage. All the same, the segment turned out to be incredibly popular, allowing Ms Arias to go on to...well, more or less the same thing, just on different shows.

Licenciada Tetarelli Playlist

Hocus Pocus

Not content with merely sawing women in half, Hungarian illusionist Máté Rakonczai has found a way to make their clothes disappear on live TV.

You can watch the performance on youtube (no age filter for this one), the girls disrobe around 08:23. We counted nine girls in black lingerie with matching thigh-highs (spoiler: the blonde's wearing red).

Universal Horrors: Abbott & Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Bud and Lou bungle their way through yet another Universal Horror, this time as a pair of Brooklyn flatfoots sequestered to foggy London at the turn of the century. The movie includes two cancan scenes (kind of), the first during a suffragette rally in Hyde Park (get it?) and the second at the local watering hole. The musical number is performed by leading lady Helen Westcott and six anonymous show girls (with only the talented Ms. Westcott actually showing her knickers).

OK, you caught us out here: we added a pair of thigh highs via Photoshop, but you've gotta admit; it looks much better this way, doesn't it?

Colpo Grosso: Maria

Maria shows us her lacy black lingerie in this short clip from Colpo Grosso. Maria La O was an obvious fan favorite from the very start, giving the impression that she honestly enjoyed herself (even when lip-syncing to a song she clearly didn't know the words to). She's known to have performed "Marina, Marina" at least twice on the show; we'll post the second clip when we manage to track it down.

Carry On Cowboy

And now it's back to the Old West in 1965's Carry On Cowboy (Anglo-Amalgamated, UK). Featuring a brief appearance by the Ballet Montparnasse, the film's cancan sequence is one of the best-remembered of the 1960s, due to the overwhelming popularity of the Carry On franchise.

Notorious outlaw Johnny Finger (Sid James), rides into the frontier-town of Stodge City, immediately gunning down three complete strangers and taking over the local saloon. Within a few weeks, Belle's Palace has devolved into a den of iniquity, where a troupe of cancan girls (played by the Ballet Montparnasse) entertains the criminal element.

 

Naturally, the puritanical Judge Burke (Kenneth Williams) is mortified by the sight of pretty young women "showing their underthings" in public ("right up to here") and attempts to close the show down, the ensuing conflict leading to one zany situation after another. 

La Flash Royalê

The Royal Flash is a dance step predominantly featured in the French Cancan, in which the dancer bends over from the hip and throws her skirts over her head, revealing her pantied bottom to the audience. Originally conceived as a way of mocking bourgeois social values, it is now often employed as the climax to the dance.

Lily demonstrates a classic Royal Flash.

In recent years, a similar form of social mockery has emerged in the guise of Twerking. Gaining popularity in night clubs and street festivals, twerking consists of thrusting the hips and shaking the bottom in time to a baseline rhythm. While the routine may be performed in jeans or shorts, many women opt to fold back their hemlines (levanta falda in Spanish) to exhibit their g-strings or tangas.

Ava reveals her best side to the audience.

 

 From:The Two Faces of Doctor Jekyll (1963)

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Yet MORE Colpo Grosso

Rewind back to 1990s Italy, where beautiful young girls shed their clothing on a weekly basis. Colpo Grosso, aka The Big Win, was the most popular game show of the decade, with an international audience numbering in the millions. As mentioned elsewhere, viewers tuned in to see which lucky starlet would be revealing her bra and knickers to the cameras (with the added bonus of an All-Girl Striptease if everything went according to plan).

A Measured Response

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With the so-called Gender Virus spreading across the world, millions of teenaged boys are being infected on a daily basis. The WHO has declared a state of emergency as the numbers continue to climb at a near-exponential rate.

Meanwhile, at Miyamae District High School, a recently transformed student is adjusting to her new role in society. Following traditional school policy, Saori Yasuda is reluctantly measured up for a school uniform by two of her classmates.

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Note: in case you're wondering, these screencaps are taken from a dress-up game I created a few years ago.

A Hard Act To Follow

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Since the very first day she tried on a skirt, Glory Bea has been the naughtiest little tranzie in the history of the planet. An honors student at Everdale Senior High, Glory is young, beautiful, and completely uninhibited, a wide eyed innocent whose sweet, bubbling personality endears her to virtually everyone she meets. On the other hand, her innate naïveté frequently leads to the most bizarre (and occasionally scurrilous) of circumstances.

When Everdale High announces its annual Christmas Fundraiser, Glory signs up for the dance contest, promising the Committee a night they'll never forget. Strangely enough, nobody inquires as to what kind of dance she'll be performing, assuming that she'll simply slip on a pink tutu and whirl her way through a rendition of Swan Lake. Word of mouth travels at roughly the speed of light in any hicksville campus, and by the end of the day, the entire school knows that Glory Bea will be tripping the light fantastique at the talent quest.

And so matters stand for the next three weeks, as the School Board gets the ball rolling. Tickets are sold, invitations are sent, checks cashed and bookings received. The PR division has somehow convinced the world-famous comedian Rodney Dangerfield to make a charity cameo, doing one of his notorious "Take My Wife" routines. The local media predicts the festival will be an unprecedented success; some estimate that the show will earn over ten thousand dollars during its first week. At some point the Committee decides that Everdale's most talented student should feature as the opening act.

After all, what could possibly go wrong?

Note: in case you're wondering, this screencap is taken from a dress-up game I created a few years ago.