when Lou Walters - then-entertainment director for the lavish Tropicana Las Vegas and father of broadcast journalist Barbara Walters - imported the sensational Folies Bergère act directly from Paris.

“And I say, ‘That’s probably from when I was jumping up and down when I was pregnant with you in ‘Folies Bergere,’ ” says Saxe, mother of Las ... Tropicana Theater was one of the Vegas ...

Goodbye, Tropicana Las ... for bringing in Les Folies Bergère from Paris as an in-house production. The topless cabaret act helped define the era of the classic Las Vegas showgirl and ...

Tropicana Las Vegas, a Rat Pack-era resort with a bygone ... The Tropicana also had a long-running showgirls revue, “Les Folies Bergere,” a Paris import that ran from 1959 to 2009.