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Dealer's Day, Missing

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Guide to the Canadian Film Centre Worldwide Short Film Festival Submissions

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Dog Days, Missing

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Archival Collection

Guide to the Canadian Film Centre Worldwide Short Film Festival Submissions

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Just a Day, missing

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File

Archival Collection

Guide to the Canadian Film Centre Worldwide Short Film Festival Submissions

Archival Component

Windy Day, Missing

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File

Archival Collection

Guide to the Canadian Film Centre Worldwide Short Film Festival Submissions

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Rememberance Day, missing

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File

Archival Collection

Guide to the Canadian Film Centre Worldwide Short Film Festival Submissions

Archival Component

Day Went, missing

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File

Archival Collection

Guide to the Canadian Film Centre Worldwide Short Film Festival Submissions

Archival Component

George Lee oral history interview

Identifier

OH-03437

Abstract

Oral history interview with George Lee conducted by Stefani Evans and Su Kim Chung on February 29, 2024 for the Reflections: the Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. In this interview, Lee describes his four decades of experience as a Las Vegas blackjack dealer (36 at the Four Queens Casino), after leaving behind a career in dance. Lee was selected to originate the role of "Tea" in a 1954 New York City Ballet stage production of The Nutcracker. He also danced in South Pacific at the Thunderbird, and with Carol Channing's revue at The Riviera, and a traveling production of Disney on Parade. After dancing in Alcazar de Paris at the Desert Inn Hotel in 1980, he quit dancing and went to dealer school. He worked swing shift at the Four Queens Hotel, and attended ballet classes at UNLV during the day. Lee, now 89, still works five days a week at the Four Queens. In this interview, Lee talks about ballet, typecasting, discipline, and being "ten times better." He discusses becoming a U.S. citizen in 1959 and changing his surname from Li to Lee.

Archival Collection

Day is Done, 2001

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File

Archival Collection

Guide to the Canadian Film Centre Worldwide Short Film Festival Submissions

Archival Component

Catch of the Day, 2000

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File

Archival Collection

Guide to the Canadian Film Centre Worldwide Short Film Festival Submissions

Archival Component

Dish of the Day, 2003

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File

Archival Collection

Guide to the Canadian Film Centre Worldwide Short Film Festival Submissions

Archival Component