Meet Me in Las Vegas

Frank Sinatra in his cameo at the slots, as gambler Chuck (Dan Dailey) and new-in-town lucky-charm ballerina Maria (Cyd Charisse) catch Lena Horne, song by Nicholas Brodszky and Sammy Cahn, at The Sands, in Meet Me In Las Vegas, 1956.

Framing the opening of MGM’s Las Vegas-based talent showcase, a vocal by The Four Aces as we meet leading man Dan Dailey as rancher-gambler Chuck, arriving at The Sands, meeting blackjack dealer Lotzi (Oscar Karlweis) and floor manager Culdane (Jim Backus), in Meet Me In Las Vegas, 1956.

Gambler Chuck (Dan Dailey) is entertaining the staff at The Sands when Cyd Charisse, as first-time headliner ballerina Maria, gets mad because he shared his proceeds after he believed she brought him luck, cameo from Vic Damone and Debbie Reynolds, in MGM’s Meet Me In Las Vegas, 1956.

From the last big number, which MGM boss Dore Schary reportedly had to be convinced to shoot, a Sammy Davis Jr. vocal, a special lyric by Sammy Cahn, choreography by Hermes Pan, Cyd Charisse as ballet dancer Maria gone full vamp, with Casse Jaeger and William Chatham, in Meet Me In Las Vegas, 1956.

A ballerina (Cyd Charisse) becomes a lucky charm for a gambler in Meet Me In Las Vegas (1956).