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Notable women who have worked as showgirls

• Joan Brown
• Mara Carfagna
  Mara Carfagna
  
  Maria Rosaria Carfagna is an Italian politician and former showgirl. After obtaining a degree in law, Carfagna worked for several years on Italian television shows and as a model....
  
• Maria Ford
  Maria Ford
  
  Maria Ford is an United States B-movie actress. She was born in Pikes Peak, Colorado and started acting as a teenager....
  
• Christine Keeler
  Christine Keeler
  
  Christine Keeler is an England former model and showgirl. Her involvement with a British government minister discredited the Conservative Party government of Harold Macmillan in 1963, in what is known as the Profumo Affair....
  
• Barbara Blakely Marx
• Valerie Perrine
  Valerie Perrine
  
  Valerie Ritchie Perrine is an Academy Award-nominated United States actress and model....
  
• Dorothy Kloss
  Dorothy Kloss
  
  Dorothy Dale Kloss, , began dancing when she was 3 years old. While working with a young Bob Fosse in a Chicago class, she won a tap contest and catapulted to stardom doing her own act at the Empire Room in Chicago....
  
• Pamela Anderson
  Pamela Anderson
  
  'Pamela Denise Anderson' is a Canada-born actor, sex symbol, model , Television producer, author, and former show girl. Anderson is best known for her roles on the television series Home Improvement , Baywatch, and V.I.P....
  
• Jenna Jameson
  Jenna Jameson
  
  Jenna Jameson is an United States entrepreneur and former pornographic actor who has been called the world's most famous porn star and "The Queen of Porn"....
  
• Kimberly Wyatt
  Kimberly Wyatt
  
  Kimberly Kaye-Wyatt is an American singer, dancer, choreographer, and a member of the modern burlesque Pop music/R&B group the Pussycat Dolls....
  

Showgirls in popular culture

• The Gold Diggers films, including The Gold Diggers
  The Gold Diggers (1923 film)
  
  The Gold Diggers is a Warner Bros. silent film directed by Harry Beaumont with screenplay by Grant Carpenter based on the The Gold Diggers by Avery Hopwood which ran for 282 performances on Broadway in 1919 and 1920.....
   (silent, 1923
  1923 in film
  
  Events*April 15 - Lee De Forest demonstrates the Phonofilm talking picture system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville performers....
  ), Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929
  1929 in film
  
  EventsThe days of the silent film were numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound film was on.*January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released....
  ), Gold Diggers of 1933
  Gold Diggers of 1933
  
  Gold Diggers of 1933 is a Warner Bros. musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin , staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley....
   (1933
  1933 in film
  
  Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
  ), Gold Diggers of 1935
  Gold Diggers of 1935
  
  Gold Diggers of 1935 is a Warner Bros. musical film directed and choregraphed by Busby Berkeley and starring Dick Powell, Gloria Stuart, Adolphe Menjou, Wini Shaw, Alice Brady, Hugh Herbert and Frank McHugh....
   (1935
  1935 in film
  
  Events*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
  ), Gold Diggers of 1937
  Gold Diggers of 1937
  
  Gold Diggers of 1937 is a Warner Bros. musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon with musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley, and starring Dick Powell and Joan Blondell, who were married at the time, and Victor Moore....
   (1936
  1936 in film
  
  The year 1936 in film involved some significant events....
  ), and Gold Diggers in Paris
  Gold Diggers in Paris
  
  Gold Diggers in Paris is a Warner Bros. musical film directed by Ray Enright with musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Rudy Vallee, Rosemary Lane, Hugh Herbert and Allen Jenkins....
   (1938
  1938 in film
  
  The year 1938 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• The Golddiggers
  The Golddiggers
  
  The Golddiggers were a singing and dancing troupe of young women that at different times over their initial 24-year history consisted of as few as four and as many as thirteen members appearing on stage at one time....
  , a troupe that performed on the Dean Martin Show beginning in 1968.
• Showgirls
  Showgirls
  
  Showgirls is a 1995 in film film director by Paul Verhoeven. It stars former child actor Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan and Gina Gershon....
  : A 1995
  1995 in film
  
  The year 1995 in film involved some significant events....
   movie directed by Paul Verhoeven
  Paul Verhoeven
  
  Paul Verhoeven is a Netherlands BAFTA Award-nominated film director, screenwriter, and film producer who has made movies in both the Netherlands and the United States....
   and starring Elizabeth Berkley
  Elizabeth Berkley
  
  Elizabeth Berkley is an United States television, film, and theatre actress. Her most notable roles were in the television series Saved by the Bell, and the 1995 Paul Verhoeven movie Showgirls....
  
• Vega$
  Vega$
  
  Vega$ is an American detective television drama series that aired on American Broadcasting Company between 1978 and 1981. It was produced by Aaron Spelling....
  : A television detective show which was set in Las Vegas made regular use of showgirls as extra
  Extra (actor)
  
  An extra, also called a background actor, is a performer in a film, television show, stage, musical, opera or ballet production, who appears in a nonspeaking, nonsinging or nondancing capacity, usually in the background ....
  s.
• Kylie Minogue
  Kylie Minogue
  
  Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
   was inspired by different types of showgirls and named and styled her iconic and successful greatest hits tour therein. Showgirl themes can be seen at many corners through Kylies entire career.
• Several showgirl cars are seen at the Dinoco booth during the animated film Cars
  Cars (film)
  
  Cars is a 2006 in film United States animation feature film produced by Pixar and directed by both John Lasseter and Joe Ranft. It was the seventh The Walt Disney Company/Pixar feature film, and the final film by Pixar before it was bought by Disney....
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• The have many primary materials relating to showgirls, some of which is included in a digital collection featuring a visual history of Las Vegas entertainment and focusing specifically on the iconic Las Vegas showgirl.

Revues which use showgirls in their productions

• Folies Bergère (Paris
  Paris
  
  Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
  , Las Vegas
  Las Vegas, Nevada
  
  Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, Nevada, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and entertainment....
  )
• Moulin Rouge
  Moulin Rouge
  
  Moulin Rouge is a cabaret built in 1889 by Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia. Close to Montmartre in the Paris red-light district of Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy in the 18?me arrondissement, Paris, it is marked by the facsimile of a red windmill on its roof....
   (Paris)
• Paradis Latin
  Paradis Latin
  
  The Paradis Latin is a theater in the Rue du Cardinal Le Moine 28, in the Latin Quarter of Paris. It was first built in 1803 and was initially called Theatre Latin....
   (Paris)
• Folies du Lac (Paris)
• La Nouvelle Eve (Paris)
• The Francis Show (Transvestite Show) (México)
• Tihany Spectacular Circus (Brazil-México)
• Roderick Palazuelos 'Platinum Stars' (México)
• Calypso Cabaret (Bangkok, Thailand)
• Jubilee! Bally's (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA)
• Splash (Riviera - hotel and casino, Las Vegas) (Frank Marino Show - La Cage)
• The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies (Palm Springs
  Palm Springs, California
  
  Palm Springs is a desert city in Riverside County, California, California, approximately 111 miles east of Los Angeles, California and 136 miles northeast of San Diego, California....
  , California
  California
  
  California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
  ; unique in that the chorus line is of showgirls in their 50s, 60s and 70s)