High Heels and Headresses: Memoirs of a Vintage Vegas Showgirl

In the golden age of the showgirl, dancers were treated like royalty. But Las Vegas legend Betty Bunch was no
pampered princess. In her thirty years on the stage, screen, and television, she faced everything from threatening tigers and menacing movie elephants to leering mob men and bait-n-switch producers.

Betty impressed and worked with many of the day’s best known stars. She danced in the movies South Pacific, Bells Are Ringing, Imitation of Life and others, as well as performing at nine L...