Danny Thomas with four Copa Girls dressed as cowgirls at the Sands Hotel, sometime in the 1950s or 1960s.
Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino
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Desert Inn owner Wilbur Clark (right) with an unidentified woman at the Desert Inn's first anniversary party. Site Name: Desert Inn (Las Vegas, Nev.)
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Jack Entratter and Frank Sinatra, looking at script pages, at rehearsal at the Sands Hotel.
Show Name: Ziegfeld Follies
Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino
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Jack Entratter and Frank Sinatra (holding script pages) watch rehearsals at the Sands Hotel.
Show Name: Ziegfeld Follies
Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino
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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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Former Ziegfeld Girl Gladys Gardner (in white dress) and another former Ziegfeld Girl (at right) visit with some of the Copa Girls at the Sands Hotel.
Show Name: Ziegfeld Follies
Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino
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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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Frank Sinatra (wearing cap) and Jack Entratter with three of the Copa Girls onstage during rehearsal at the Sands Hotel.
Show Name: Ziegfeld Follies
Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino
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Frank Sinatra rehearsing onstage with the Copa Girls, in costume, at the Sands Hotel.
Show Name: Ziegfeld Follies
Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino
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