Vegas: The Story of Sin City S01E01 - From Sand to Strip
Summary:
The arrival of the mafia and its money catapults Las Vegas from a raffish frontier town to a glamorous entertainment destination featuring the biggest stars of the nightclub era.
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TVMAZE INFO v1.5
Title: Vegas: The Story of Sin City
Premiered: 2024
IMDB Link: NA
TVMaze Link: https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/74764/vegas
Episode Link: https://www.tvmaze.com/episodes/2774382/vegas
Genre: Fantasy / Music / History
Type: Documentary
User Rating: NA
Country: US
Language: English
Network: CNN
Status: Running
Premiered: 2024
Airdate: 2024-02-25
Plot: Visiting Las Vegas has become an American rite of passage
It's a town that has platformed major musical artists from the Rat Pack and
Elvis Presley to Celine Dion and Adele, making Nevada's largest city an
international destination for music and live entertainment. Across four
immersive episodes, Vegas: The Story of Sin City showcases the past
seventy years of America's cultural maturation through the lens of this
unique city, featuring the entertainment acts, the visionary entrepreneurs
the infamous mafia figures, and the colorful political history that put it
on the map.Through interviews with notable entertainers like Paul
Anka and Wayne Newton, former showgirls, journalists, and cultural
historians, the city's evolution into an entertainment mecca is unspooled
revealing the role Las Vegas played in the most important movements and
moments shaping American culture as we know it today