This ‘Pick of the Net’ is a collection of videos of ‘Vintage’ Circus Women.
There are lots of videos and I will add to it (so check back!) as I thought it would be good to have a curated ‘archive’ of all these great acts – please send through any that you find on the net. Some have info on who they are etc and others don’t I’m afraid.
I hope you enjoy,
Hx
HONEY GIRLS, THE, female acrobatic quartette (USA, 1956)
The Florence Honey Girls were four female acrobats headed by Sydney-born Miss Florence ‘Coochie’ Honey (1911-1978) who came to the USA with her family of acrobats from Australia in 1926. Coochie organised her quartet of female acrobats in the 1950s. Coochie was the daughter of Alfred Honey, an American gymnast, and his wife, Daisy, nee St Leon, of an old Australian circus family. Coochie is the third lady to march on at the clip’s commencement and sits at the far left at clip’s closing.
Trio Acrobats – Arena Smelih (1953)
Galina Tarbeeva – Contortionist 1950s – 60s
Doris Thompson – Contortionist (1950s)
Balance and Contortion By Anikin and Dolzhenko – 1944
The Mascots
The Hollywood Palace, host Sammy Davis Jr., air November 2, 1966
Martha, Zoya & Klara Koch 1942
“Concert to the front”, USSR, 1942 Equilibrists on the rope (sisters Martha, Zoya and Klara Koch), aerialists (comic flight by Anatoly Vyazov), Pencil (Mikhail Rumyantsev): reprise “Speech of the Minister of Propaganda Goebbels” Arkady Raikin, Mikhail Pugovkin.
The Ross Sisters (1944)
From the film ‘Broadway Rhythm‘
Random Knife throwing Mum 1950s
Female Trampoline Acrobats
“The Pinky Lee Show”, 1950-1957
Lottie Brunn – Juggler (1952)
The Rogge Sisters
The Hollywood Palace, host Fred Astaire, air December 3, 1966
Princess Tajana (Struppi Hanneford), aerialist
The Hollywood Palace, host David Janssen, air June 2, 1965
The World’s Strongest teenager, April Atkins
Ms. Muscle April Atkins, seventh grader in Los Angeles, probably was the strongest girl in the world. In the end scene she’s carrying the weight of four adults, equivalent of 710 pounds, on her back!
Josie Terena (1941)
Yoga Girl (1955)
Dubious cultural appropriation, a sign of the times.
1930s Wire walker
The Alexis Sisters
I think they might be from the 80s so cheating a bit on the ‘Vintage’ front!
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