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Costume design drawing, brown and white spirals dress, circa 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Costume Details: Dress with white halter top, brown cinched waist, and flared skirt of brown and white spirals; long pink gloves and pink floral headpiece.
Performance Name: Pianos
Performance Name: Pianos
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Costume design drawing, brown dress with pink jewels, circa 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Costume Details: Long brown sheath-type dress and gloves with pink feathers and jewels.
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Photograph of Donn Arden onstage with skaters, 1940s
Date
1940 to 1949
Archival Collection
Description
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."
Costume Details: The skaters are wearing white figure skates, costumes with short, frilly skirts, and headpieces resembling ponies' heads with feather "manes."
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Photograph of Donn Arden with dancer and costumers, 1940s
Date
1940 to 1949
Archival Collection
Description
Donn Arden, holding a costume sketch, examines the fringed, short-skirted two-piece costume worn by a dancer backstage. A costume mistress measures the dancer's skirt with a tape measure. An unidentifed man holding a length of fabric is seen on the right.
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Photograph of Donn Arden with two dancers, 1940s
Date
1940 to 1949
Archival Collection
Description
Donn Arden puts the finishing touches on a dancer's costume during rehearsal. Another dancer, in costume, poses in front.
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Photograph of Donn Arden Dancers, 1940s
Date
1940 to 1949
Archival Collection
Description
Donn Arden Dancers grouped on stage in variety of costumes.
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Costume design drawing, pink gown with brown cape, circa 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Costume Details: Long pink sheath-type dress with side-slit skirt, pink feathered headpiece and necklace, long brown gloves and brown cape with pink trim at bottom.
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Costume design drawing, various costume miniatures, circa 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Costume Details: Various small figures of Salvation Army, Parisian, Indian, cowboy and cowgirl costumes.
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Costume design drawing, yellow and green dress with white lace, circa 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Costume Details: Yellow dress with green trim, accordion-pleated flared skirt covered with layer of white lace, white lace-trimmed short sleeves, yellow hair ribbons.
Performance Name: Jardin
Performance Name: Jardin
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Photograph of Bob Gilbert and Ray Sinatra, Las Vegas, 1954
Date
1954
Archival Collection
Description
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
Show Name: Ziegfeld Follies
Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino
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