At 16 she went to Germany to dance with the Alfred ... her old ballet friends and formed a troupe of 11 girls. In 1932, she assembled and trained the first Bluebell girls at the Folies Bergere.

Margaret Kelly: Margaret Kelly, who has died aged 94, was the founder of the world-famous Bluebell Girls dance troupe and a … Margaret Kelly: Margaret Kelly, who has died aged 94, was the ...

MARGARET Kelly, who has died aged 94, was the original Bluebell girl, the founder of the dance troupe that perfected a Parisian tradition of lightly clad, long-legged girls performing vigorous ...

The person who ultimately decides where the Bluebells will dance is a leathery ... A onetime dancing girl herself, she formed the first Bluebell company in 1933, has directly hired all the 6,000 ...

Margaret Kelly, who has died aged 94, was the original Bluebell girl, the founder of the dance troupe that perfected a Parisian tradition of lightly clad, long-legged girls performing vigorous ...

One of the last original Bluebell girls who danced the cancan nightly at the Moulin Rouge in Paris has died at the age of 92. Gloria Sheaves joined the Bluebell Dance Troupe in 1934 and performed ...

There is no age limit, with the troupe currently made ... time that was far too tall to dance with a boy partner." Under Kelly's ground rules the "Bluebell Girls" must "continue to present the ...

Photo courtesy of the Bernice Abbott estate The Bluebell Girls dance troupe take instruction from choreographer Margaret Kelly, founder of the dance troupe, during rehearsals in London in 1966.

There is also a family connection, as Halliwell's grandmother was a member of a risque dance troupe in Paris called the Bluebell Girls. She described being a mother as "like having my own little doll" ...