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Photograph of the Copa Girls waving to the audience, Las Vegas, 1954
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Several Copa Girls, wearing tea-length gowns, wave to the audience from onstage at the Sands showroom. Former Ziegfeld Girl Gladys Gardner (with blonde hair and corsage) is seen watching from the lower left.
Show Name: Ziegfeld Follies
Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino
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Photograph of Gladys Gardner watching Frank Sinatra onstage, Las Vegas, 1954
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Former Ziegfeld Girl Gladys Gardner (with blonde hair, at bottom left of photo), who danced in Florenz Ziegfeld's shows in 1913, watches Frank Sinatra onstage, from her stage-side table at the Sands Hotel showroom.
Show Name: Ziegfeld Follies
Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino
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Dove, Billie
Born Lillian Bertha Bohny to Charles and Bertha Bohny, Billie Dove first appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies in 1917. Five year later, she signed with Metro in Hollywood and appeared in her first film "Polly of the Follies" (1922). Nick named Billie Dove, she was known as the beauty queen of the silent film era. Her many credits included "The Lone Star Ranger" (1923), "The Air Mail" (1925), "Kid Boots" (1926), "American Beauty" (1927) and "Her Private Life" (1929). She retired from the screen in 1934.
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