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Costume design drawing, topless showgirl in red and black feathered ensemble, Las Vegas, 1981

Date

1981

Archival Collection

Description

Bob Mackie design. Transcribed from original drawing index: "nude showgirl (red #1)."
Costume Details: Topless showgirl in red and black jewelled sheath-style costume, with large headdress of red feathers tipped with black; matching bracelets and earrings.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Bandwagon finale: Stairway
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino

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Costume design drawing, Vienna finale costumes, Las Vegas, 1981

Date

1981

Archival Collection

Description

Bob Mackie design. Transcribed from original drawing index: "16 Bluebells (Vienna hoopskirts); 16 Male dancers (Vienna-Military)."
Costume Details: Female performer in pale pink hoop skirt costume decorated with large fuchsia and purple grapes, black ribbons at waist, and teal hair ribbons. Male performer wearing a stylized military uniform costume with white tights, blue jacket, cape and hat trimmed with black feathers, and black boots.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Bandwagon finale: Vienna
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino

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Costume design drawing, yellow and black feathered showgirl costume, Las Vegas, 1981

Date

1981

Archival Collection

Description

Pete Menefee design. Transcribed from drawing index: "8 black girls (black and yellow feathers)."
Costume Details: Showgirl in jewelled bikini and headdress with yellow and black feathers
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Minstrel opening: Hullabaloo
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino

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Photograph of billboard in Paris advertising Lido, circa 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Archival Collection

Description

Outdoor night shot from a street lined with parked cars of a billboard advertising the Lido Cabaret-Restaurant in Paris. A lamppost and traffic signal are seen to the left in front of another billboard advertising TWA. The billboards are illuminated by electric spotlights.
Show Name: Lido (Paris, France)
Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)

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Photograph of Bluebells posing outside of Pan Am jet, 1958

Date

1958

Archival Collection

Description

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.)

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Photograph of dance number with showgirls and male dancers in tuxedos, circa 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Archival Collection

Description

Dance number onstage featuring showgirls in bodices trimmed with various-colored fur or feather shoulders and short skirts and tall feather headdresses, and male dancers in tuxedos with tails and top hats. White cut-out portico columns form the stage backdrop. Audience members at their tables are seen in the foreground.
Show Name: Lido de Paris (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Site Name: Stardust Resort and Casino

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Photograph of dancers in front of "Panache" sign, Paris, France, 1985

Date

1985

Archival Collection

Description

A row of male dancers wearing black trousers and shirts with white vests and black bowler hats perform in front of a large electric sign spelling "PANACHE." A showgirl in white fur costume poses atop the middle A in the sign. Audience members at their tables are seen in the foreground.
Show Name: Panache (Lido: Paris, France)
Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)

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Photograph of dancers marching in striped costumes with top hats, Paris, France, circa 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Archival Collection

Description

Dancers pose onstage in a march number, wearing two piece, vertically-striped, spangled costumes comprised of bikini bottoms with long feather tails, long-sleeved short bolero-type tops with cuffs and collars, and matching high-heeled boots and plumed top hats. Audience members at their tables are seen in front of the stage.
Show Name: Lido (Paris, France)
Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)

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Photograph of Donn Arden, Margaret Kelly and Pierre-Louis Guérin with dancers, Paris, France, circa 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Archival Collection

Description

Donn Arden (center) onstage with dance mistress Margaret Kelly (AKA Madame Bluebell), Lido owner Pierre-Louis Guérin and three dancers in costume during rehearsal at the Lido in Paris.
Show Name: Lido (Paris, France)
Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)

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Photograph of "Ebony Bar" number from Lido, circa 1960s

Date

1960 to 1969

Archival Collection

Description

African American dancers perform a number at the Lido in Paris. A showgirl in frilly costume with feather boa and pill-box hat poses in front of a row of men dressed in striped trousers, spats, white shirts with vests and bowler hats. A sign reading "Ebony Bar" hangs from above stage. Street lamp and gate props are at each side of the stage. Audience members are seen around the stage.
Show Name: Lido (Paris, France)
Performance Name: Ebony Bar
Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)

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