Morganna "The Kissing Bandit"

By | July 7, 2021

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Morganna Roberts love of baseball started when her grandfather took her to see a game in Louisville, her birthplace, and she was so connected to the sport that she even met her future husband, Bill Cottrell at a World Series game when she was only 22. She had a rather inauspicious start, as she was disowned as a baby and raised by her grandmother for six years. She was sent to Mount Mercy Catholic Boarding School, where she stayed until 13, when she ran away to Baltimore. Too young to work, she lived on the street. However, when she saw an ad in the window of the Flamingo Club advertising for a "Cigarette Girl or Camera Girl. Must be 18,” she applied, telling the owner she was 18. He decided to hire her as an exotic dancer, which she agreed to, having no idea what the term meant. During her first performance, the audience shouted, “Take it off,” and she began to cry so the manager had to lead her off the stage. However, she got used to it and by 17, was a successful exotic dancer. She combined stripping and comedy, and she wore two 10-gallon cowboy hats on her chest. She also impersonated Gene Shalit, the film critic. 

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A Well-Endowed Exotic Dancer With A Sense Of Humor

She was described by Hank Davis as having “ample physical development. Simply put, the woman makes Dolly Parton look developmentally delayed.” She has explained that her chest began to develop when she was nine and she could pass for 18 by the time she was 12. She has insisted "I'm not a sex symbol. I'm a comedienne. I make folks smile. I make them laugh - and that makes my day. What are we here for, if not that?" And she has turned her “stage props” as she calls them, into fodder for humor. As she has said, "People ask me where I get my bras and I always tell them the same people who make my bras made the domes for all the stadiums."