Georgia Sothern

{{short description|American burlesque performer (1913–1981)}}

Georgia Sothern (1913–1981), born Hazel Anderson, was a burlesque dancer and vaudeville performer. She was known for her striptease performances.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/17/obituaries/georgia-sothern-1940-s-stripteaser-and-cabaret-star.html|title=Georgia Sothern, 1940's Stripteaser and Cabaret Star|date=1981-10-17|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-03-20|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} She gave an interview to The Harvard Crimson during a trip to the Old Howard Athenaeum in Boston during 1939. She toured New York Philadelphia, Boston, Buffalo, and Miami. She was a red-head.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1939/3/6/real-art-required-to-be-burlesque/|title=Real Art Required to Be Burlesque Stripper, Georgia Sothern Explains {{!}} News {{!}} The Harvard Crimson|website=www.thecrimson.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-20}} One of her performances was captured in a Film Theatarettes short film.{{Cite web|url=http://trueburlesque.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-worlds-fastest-stripper-true.html|title=TRUE BURLESQUE: The World's Fastest Stripper (!) True Burlesque of Georgia Sothern Ecydysiast and Suspected Falsie Wearer?|last=Minx|first=Victor|website=TRUE BURLESQUE|access-date=2019-03-20}} She wrote her memoir titled Georgia: A Life in Burlesque. She had a series of marriages.

She was born in Georgia and began performing at 13. Advertising posters brought large crowds to her shows around the U.S.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXIZbIKMUesC&q=georgia+sothern&pg=PA675|title=Girl Show: Into the Canvas World of Bump and Grind|last=Stencell|first=A. W.|date=1999|publisher=ECW Press|isbn=9781550223712|language=en}} One of the songs she performed to was the up tempo "Hold that Tiger" performed by an orchestra accompanying the show.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6QmvMLWqSWQC&q=Georgia+sothern&pg=PA74|title=Always Something Doing: Boston's Infamous Scollay Square|last=Kruh|first=David|date=1999|publisher=UPNE|isbn=9781555534103|language=en}} She was friends with fellow performer Gypsy Rose Lee.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O2xxhFcOXfwC&q=georgia+sothern+anderson+burlesque&pg=PA40|title=Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee|first=Noralee|last=Frankel|date=May 8, 2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-983101-2|via=Google Books}} Sothern's performances were frenzies of fast-paced gyrating and disrobing.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kkZLAQAAMAAJ&q=georgia+sothern+anderson+burlesque|title=A Bit of Burlesque: A Brief History of Its Times & Stars|first=David|last=Cary|date=March 20, 1997|publisher=Tecolote Publications|isbn=9780938711476|via=Google Books}} She considered Rags Ragland a close friend.