Jada - 1 SOF
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Burlesque dancer Jada performs at a New Orleans Night Club, likely at the Sho-Bar on Bourbon Street.
Credits
Frank Koza (filmmaker); Jada (performer)
Complete catalog record
Date: circa 1958
Cfa collection: Frank Koza Collection
Notes: Jada performs a burlesque routine on a stage lined with mirrors along the back wall while the band plays "St. James Infirmary Blues." She begins her act in a sequined dress and fur coat, then in tassels and a thong, and culminates in a reclined position on top of a tiger-skin rug.; Jada (Janet Adams Mole Bonney Cuffari Smallwood Conforto Washington [1936-1980]) later became the subject of many John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories, as she was a dancer at Jack Ruby's Carousel Club in Dallas at the time Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963. She also starred in the film Naughty Dallas (1964).
Subjects: Erotica; Entertainers; Sexuality and culture; New Orleans (La.); Striptease; Bourbon Street (New Orleans, La.)
Places: North America > United States > Louisiana > New Orleans
Language: English
Cfa elements: Negatives, 404 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/12420
Cfa collection: Frank Koza Collection
Notes: Jada performs a burlesque routine on a stage lined with mirrors along the back wall while the band plays "St. James Infirmary Blues." She begins her act in a sequined dress and fur coat, then in tassels and a thong, and culminates in a reclined position on top of a tiger-skin rug.; Jada (Janet Adams Mole Bonney Cuffari Smallwood Conforto Washington [1936-1980]) later became the subject of many John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories, as she was a dancer at Jack Ruby's Carousel Club in Dallas at the time Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963. She also starred in the film Naughty Dallas (1964).
Subjects: Erotica; Entertainers; Sexuality and culture; New Orleans (La.); Striptease; Bourbon Street (New Orleans, La.)
Places: North America > United States > Louisiana > New Orleans
Language: English
Cfa elements: Negatives, 404 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/12420
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:15