1950s showgirl

No other icon epitomizes Las Vegas like the showgirl. While Las Vegas has become known primarily as a gambling resort, in fact its entertainment is as important to its tourist industry as gambling. <a href="http://digital.library.unlv.edu/collections/showgirls" rel="noreferrer nofollow">digital.library.unlv.edu/collections/showgirls</a>

Velma Kelly is one of the two main antagonists and anti-heroines of the musical Chicago and its 2002 film adaptation. She is imprisoned on the suspicion of murdering her husband and sister (which she privately acknowledges) and is also the chief rival of the equally villainous Roxie Hart, who shot her lover dead in a fit of rage and then claimed self-defense. Kelly was not part of the original 1927 play "Roxie Hart", but was invented solely for the 1975 musical adaptation. She was portrayed…

Lana Turner on the set of Ziegfeld Girl, 1941

A collection of photos of vintage burlesque dancers and their fabulous costumes, with legends such as Tempest Storm, Blaze Starr, Lily St. Cyr, and Noel Toy

he famous burlesque artist Gypsy Rose Lee commissioned her friend, Ralph Steiner to make this photograph as part of a series of publicity shots. On a rural road, Lee and her scantily clad "girls" posed around a Rolls Royce and Louis Vuitton luggage. American, Bronx, New York, 1944

Backstage at Follies Bergere 1950's