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
Some of the Copa Girls dancing onstage at the Sands Hotel, circa 1953. The two dancers on the right in white dresses are the Ryba Twins. Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino
Donn Arden and Margaret Kelly (Madame Bluebell), dining at a post-show party at the Lido in Paris. Arden wears a paper party hat, and streamers and garlands hang from the ceiling. Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)
Donn Arden (holding eyeglasses), Margaret Kelly (Madame Bluebell), choreographer Rich Rizzo (in t-shirt) and René Fraday pose at the Lido in Paris.
Show Name: Lido (Paris, France)
Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)
Donn Arden, Margaret Kelly (Madame Bluebell), and Jospeh Clerico (owner and general director) seated in theater watching rehearsal. Show Name: Lido (Paris, France) Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)
Margaret Kelly (Madame Bluebell), and Donn Arden at rehearsal at the Lido in Paris. Show Name: Lido (Paris, France) Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)
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)
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."
Several Copa Girls perform onstage at the Sands Hotel wearing teal toreador costumes with matching tights, capes and hats. A bullring backdrop is behind them. Audience members are seen in the foreground at their tables watching the show. Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino