From L-R: Lido owner Pierre-Louis Guérin, an unidentified man, René Fraday, Donn Arden (with coffee cup) and Margaret Kelly (AKA Madame Bluebell) watching rehearsals at the Lido in Paris.
Show Name: Lido (Paris, France)
Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)
René Fraday, Donn Arden, Margaret Kelly (Madame Bluebell), Lido owner Pierre-Louis Guérin, and dancer Ffolliott Charlton watching rehearsal while dining at the Lido in Paris. Other people are seen in the background also watching the rehearsal.
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)
René Fraday, Margaret Kelly (Madame Bluebell), an unidentified woman (possibly dancer Ffolliott Charlton), Donn Arden and Pierre-Louis Guérin, raising champagne glasses in a toast, are seen at the lower right of this photo showing an opening night crowd at the Lido in Paris.
Show Name: Lido (Paris, France)
Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)
The Bluebells dance troupe poses on the steps of a Pan Am jet plane as they arrive in Las Vegas to open the new Lido de Paris show at the Stardust Hotel. Other members of the Bluebells pose with Margaret Kelly ("Madame Bluebell") and Lido owner/producer Pierre-Louis Guérin on the tarmac below the plane. All are dressed in street clothes and some are holding small carry-on bags. Show Name: Lido de Paris (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Hull of the Flying Boat being towed to the harbor, 1946. Over a six day period, the 220-foot hull and the 320-foot wing journeyed 28-miles over land to the harbor for assembly.
L-R: Alexander Troyanovsky (Soviet Ambassador to the U.S.) and Howard Hughes at the Moscow Airdrome, Moscow, Russia, July 12, 1938. Original item may indicate alternate date: 7/2/38.