Ziegfeld follies

Ah, Sunny Spectacular Las Vegas. Here lies a confession. I miss Las Vegas. Don't get me wrong! I mean, I'm glad I left, for moral reasons and avenues unexplored... But I do miss a few things about it. (By the way, if I WAS going to be a showgirl I would totally have gone the Esther Williams path instead. At least some of her outfits are borderline modest. Also colorful and shimmery.) How about having having one wardrobe? - Summer. And that meant that your main dress piece was usually: A…

Ziegfeld Follies

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Doris Eaton Travis (March 14, 1904 – May 11, 2010) died this week at age 106. She began performing onstage as a young child, and made her Broadway debut at the age of 13. A year later, in 1918, she joined the famed Ziegfeld Follies as the youngest Ziegfeld Girl ever cast in the show. She continued to perform in stage productions and silent films throughout the 1920s and early 1930s. In 1911, [she and her] sisters were hired for a production of Maurice Maeterlinck's fantasy play The Blue Bird…

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Vintage ca. late 1910′s / early 1920′s photograph of Ziegfeld Follies showgirls the Fairbanks Twins, Madeline and Marion, in a spirited jazz age costume view. Though not actually twins, the sisters were a fixture in vaudeville, early silent film, and become featured stars in the Ziegfeld Follies and Midnight Frolic revues. (by Culver Pictures Inc., NY) / src: Grapefruit Moon Gallery