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Fascinatin' Rhythm: A Pretty Girl - The Showgirls, 04/14/18

FROM THE BYGONE

Episode # 1815

Every Ziegfeld Follies featured long-legged, scantily-clad show girls whose primary role was to look beautiful and walk gracefully. Ziegfeld invented the show girl, and then songs and stories turned her into an archetype, cool and distant, yet linked for all time to Sugar Daddies.