Copa Girls performing in the Ziegfeld Follies production show at the Copa Room of the Sands Hotel in 1954 before an audience of former Ziegfeld Follies dancers. Show Name: Ziegfeld Follies Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino
Margaret Kelly (Madame Bluebell), and Donn Arden watching rehearsal at the Lido in Paris. Show Name: Lido (Paris, France) Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)
From L-R: René Fraday, Margaret Kelly (Madame Bluebell), Bob Turk, Donn Arden, costume designer Louis Folco at the Lido in Paris. Arden and Folco are holding up champagne glasses. Two unidentified women and one man are in the background.
Show Name: Lido (Paris, France)
Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)
Donn Arden with several ice skaters onstage. They are posed around a "carousel" formed of long ribbons coming from the top of a pole. Costume Details: The skaters are wearing white figure skates, costumes with short, frilly skirts, and headpieces resembling ponies' heads with feather "manes."
Choreographer Bob Gilbert with orchestra leader Ray Sinatra during rehearsal at the Sands Hotel and Casino. Show Name: Ziegfeld Follies Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino
Costume Details: Black and white Spanish flamenco female dancer costume with oversized black ruffled sleeves, a white net top, black ruffles at the knees, white boots, and a black brimmed hat, shown front and back.