show girl

Example Sentences

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"My mum was a show girl, a dancer in the can-can," says Johnson-Thompson.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2021

A New York show girl is discovered by a big movie producer and is taken to Hollywood to become the next big star.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2020

She was a show girl - it figures, because handler Bruce Sussman co-wrote "Copacabana" with Barry Manilow.

From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2010

In a one-man comic population explosion, Sid Caesar plays all seven men in the farcical musical-comedy saga of Belle Poitrine, the all-American show girl originally lampooned in Patrick Dennis' novel.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Providence has got to throw something besides 'crap,' some time or other," remarked Sabrina, the show girl as we complimented her upon her new gown.

From The Sorrows of a Show Girl by McGaffey, Kenneth