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unusual facts about Showgirl's Luck


Peggy Pryde

She appeared in Australia's first talking film Fellers (1930) and also in Showgirl's Luck (1931), and Two Minutes Silence (1933).


Al Hodge

Hodge and his third wife, a former showgirl, are buried next to each other at Kensico Cemetery in Westchester County, New York.

Al Tantay

Al Tantay (born 1956) is a Filipino film actor, writer, and director and the former husband of Rio Locsin, with whom he made several movies, including Rizza Jones, Showgirl (1979, by Melros Productions), Love Affair (1980, by Regal Films), Wild Animals (1980, by Regal Films), and Bilibid Boys (1981, Regal Films).

Alessia Merz

Alessia Merz (Trento, September 24, 1974) is an Italian model, television host and showgirl.

Andrew Ray

He was born Andrew Olden (Ray was his father's stage name) in North London, the son of the famous radio comic Ted Ray and his wife, showgirl Dorothy Sibil.

Arthur Morris

Speculation linked his difficulties on the field to his personal relationships: during the tour Morris had fallen in love with English showgirl Valerie Hudson; he spotted her when she was performing in the Crazy Gang vaudeville show at London's Victoria Palace.

Beginner's Luck

At the theater, Spanky befriends a little girl (Marianne Edwards) who has bombed her act due to stage fright but needs the prize money to buy a special dress.

Dimitri Jorjadze

He married, secondly, in 1954, to Sylvia Ashley, a onetime English showgirl who was the former wife of Major Lord Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Clark Gable, and the widow of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.

Dudley Do-Right Emporium

The rotating statue of Bullwinkle holding Rocky was made to mimic the rotating statue of a Las Vegas showgirl on top of a giant billboard for the Stardust Hotel across Sunset Boulevard at the eastern side of the Sunset Strip.

Felicia Atkins

Atkins was a showgirl at the Tropicana Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, in their Las Vegas rendition of the "Folies Bergère", which is how she was discovered by Playboy.

Gloria Pall

She worked as a showgirl in both Reno and Las Vegas as well as in Hollywood where for a time she was chosen to be "Miss Earl Carroll" from the huge cast of beauties.

Jimmie Mattern

On May 18, 1937, the day after his divorce was finalized, Mattern was married to Dorothy J. Harvey, a showgirl, at Berwyn Methodist church.

Jobson's Luck

Jobson's Luck is a 1913 British comedy film directed by H.O. Martinek and starring George Foley, Hal Charlton and M. Gray Murray.

Kitty Kelly

However, she is probably more infamously remembered in the Hal Roach Our Gang comedy short Beginner's Luck, which was released by M-G-M in 1935.

Licinia Lentini

Born in Rome, Lentini achieved a wide popularity in 1980 as a showgirl in the RAI variety show Studio '80.

Norris J. Nelson

Norwegian actress Asta Bertels was mentioned in the testimony, Nelson relating that he brought her from Norway the same month, April 1946, that he separated from his wife and that he was acting as her agent in furthering a Hollywood career; she signed a contract with showgirl impresario Earl Carroll.

Sarah Tansey

She has also appeared in movies Far from the Madding Crowd and Beginner's Luck.

Sarjakuvalehti

Recurring series in the 1950s included Superman, Brick Bradford, Toot and Casper, Little Annie Rooney, Smokey Stover, Texas Slim and Dirty Dalton, Tim Tyler's Luck, Johnny Hazard, Terry and the Pirates, Lone Ranger, Flash Gordon, Mandrake, The Phantom and King of the Royal Mounted.

Smart Blonde

Glenda Farrell plays Torchy Blane, former showgirl, newspaper reporter on the police beat, and girlfriend of Homicide Detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane).

The B-Girlz

"B-Girlz Gone Wild", "Canada's Next Top Showgirl", "Degrassi B-Girlz High", "Ice Skate Canada", "The Elevator", "The Dress" as well as a musical video tribute "Toronto! Toronto!!" which screened at the opening gala of the 2004 Inside Out Festival in Toronto and features a cameo by Toronto celebrity politician Olivia Chow, wife of New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton.

The Prince and the Showgirl

The 2011 film My Week with Marilyn depicts the week in which Monroe spent being escorted around London by personal assistant Colin Clark, during the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl. The movie is largely based upon two books by Clark recounting his experiences during the production: My Week with Marilyn (2000) and The Prince, the Showgirl, and Me: Six Months on the Set With Marilyn and Olivier (1996).

Tim Tyler's Luck

The title of the Umberto Eco novel The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004) is taken from the title of a strip episode, in turn inspired by H. Rider Haggard's novel She.

Vikki Dougan

She made for herself a successful career in modeling before gaining her first movie role in Back from Eternity as an uncredited showgirl.


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