Faith Bacon: The Nude Dancer Who Invented the Fan Dance, Then Watched Sally Rand Take the Credit

In July 1930, a Broadway dancer named Faith Bacon was arrested for performing nude on a New York stage, fans in hand, nothing else. Three years later, another dancer doing essentially the same act with the same fans was the single biggest attraction at the Chicago World's Fair, pulling crowds that reportedly saved the whole event from a financial flop. That second dancer was Sally Rand. The first was Faith Bacon, and she's the one who actually invented the fan dance. History remembers Rand....