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Madam Bluebell and the Bluebell Girls For 40 years, the most beautiful and talented dancers

and showgirls in the world have carried the

name"Bluebell," a name affectionately given Madame

Bluebell as a baby when the family doctor looked into her

bright blue eyes.

Madame Bluebell assembled and trained the first Bluebell

Girls at the Folies Bergere in Paris, and more than 11

million showgoers have come to see her girls perform in

the spectacular Stardust Lido productions. She began her dancing career early. At 16, she traveled

throughout Europe with an English ballet troupe. And

before her 20th birthday, she was featured dancer with

the Folies Bergere, the line captain, and the creator of the

famous Bluebell Girls.

When the Lido in Paris opened after the war, her covey of

French beauties were an instant success. And in 1958,

when they were brought to the Stardust in Las Vegas by

Donn Arden, they awed the showgoers. Although many have attempted to duplicate Madame

Bluebell's success formula, no one has achieved her

international fame and respect.

This remains established because of her demands that

each girl have three qualities; She must have extensive

ballet training; she must be beautiful and long-legged;

and se must be 5'8 or taller.

"Finding girls wtih these requirements is extremely

difficult. Knowing what I am looking for, ballet companies

will call me. But since none of the famous ballet

companies hire tall girls, statuesque dancers do not

usually continue their ballet training past their early

teens. I have travelled millions of miles, all over the

world, in search of Bluebell Girls." ~ Madame Bluebell

Michelle Hartman Michelle at the Latin Quarter, London, England