LAS VEGAS: AN UNCONVENTIONAL HISTORY

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• Release Year: 2005
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: From well-heeled mobsters and glamorous showgirls, fantastical mega casinos and dazzling displays of neon, Las Vegas is the world's most famous monument to reckless abandon and unbridled excess. This AMERICAN EXPERIENCE program, produced to suprising and endlessly entertaining history of America's most outrageous playground.; From its beginnings as a remote frontier waystation to its Depression-era incarnations as the 'Gateway to the Hoover Dam,' from it's mid-century heyday as the gangster metropolis known as 'SIN CITY' to it's recent renaissance as the fastest-growing city in the UNITED STATES, Las Vegas has creatively adapted its image to reflect the changing attitudes of the nation. In so doing, it has consistently anticipated the needs and desires of Americans, and then fufilled them. It is a city that has understood, better than any other over the last century, what Americans wanted most when they ran away from home.
• Cast: Michael Murphy, Lucille Ball, Imogene Coca, Noël Coward, Walter Cronkite, Patricia Cunningham, Sammy Davis Jr., Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Oscar Goodman, Brian Greenspun, Bryant Gumbel, Dave Hickey, Jimmy Hoffa, Howard Hughes, Estes Kefauver, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Eartha Kitt, Paul Laxalt, Jerry Lewis, Liberace, Jayne Mansfield, Dean Martin, Paul Newman, Nicholas Pileggi, Dan Rather, Ginger Rogers, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hal Rothman, Bugsy Siegel, Frank Sinatra, Danny Thomas, David Thomson, Dina Titus, Orson Welles, Joanne Woodward, Elaine Wynn, Steve Wynn, Stephen Ives, Michelle Ferrari
• Director: Stephen Ives
• Runtime: 3:00
• Company: Paramount Pictures
• Media Format: movie