Vegas Nights
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
J. D. Kay
Elvira Pagan
Hazel
May Blondell
Hillary Dawn
Queen Of Paradise
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
The film opens with footage of Las Vegas, introducing some of the city's oldest casino hotels and gambling clubs. At one of the hotels, a team of underwater dancers performs acrobatic tricks in the pool. After claiming that the city contains a large number of single women due to the availability of quick and simple marriages and divorces, the doors to the Club Paradise open to show Elvira Pagan performing an exotic dance onstage. Hazel the Pin Up Girl and May Blondell follow, each with a striptease of her own. Between performers a group of gypsies dance while a female gypsy performs a strip. Hillary Dawn and Queen of Paradise then perform sultry stripteases. In between the dancing, a comedy team performs two sketches, one about a drunk's inability to count even the simplest objects and the other about two men who expect some physical attention from two young women in exchange for a ride in their new car, a cardboard prop. The film closes with Rita Ravell and Chili Pepper each performing stripteases.
Director
J. D. Kay
Cast
Elvira Pagan
Hazel
May Blondell
Hillary Dawn
Queen Of Paradise
Rita Ravell
Chili Pepper
Charlie Crafts
George "beetlepuss" Lewis
Harry Arnie
Ed Colmans
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Although a print of the film was viewed, there were no onscreen credits. Those were added from a negative of a version of the film. An intermittent, offscreen narration presented historical details about Las Vegas. Producer-director J. D. Kay was also known as J. D. Kendis and most of the footage in Vegas Nights comes from earlier burlesque features and shorts he, and other producers, made. One strip routine and a sketch are also in The ABCs of Love. The sequence in which dancers perform underwater is from a 1940s short film by director Klaytan W. Kirby shot in Los Angeles.
