Jean Gabin
Henri Danglard
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French Cancan: Directed by Jean Renoir. With Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix, Anna Amendola. This comedy drama from Jean Renoir chronicles the revival of Paris' most notorious dance as it tells the story of a theater producer who turns a humble washerwoman into a star at the Moulin Rouge.
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- Comedy, Drama, Musical
- Jean Renoir
- 1956-04-16
French Cancan (also known as Only the French Can) is a 1955 French-Italian musical film written and directed by Jean Renoir and starring Jean Gabin, Francoise Arnoul, and María Félix. It marked Renoir's return to France and to French cinema after an exile that began in 1940.
Oct 29, 2014 · French Cancan (1955) - Trailer (english subtitles) Directed by : Jean Renoir Produced by : Franco-London Films Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 1 h 47 min French release: 29/04/1955 Production year:...
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Mar 18, 2015 · Made two years later, French Cancan (also released as Only the French Can) offers a fictionalized look at the Moulin Rouge and its cultural influence through the tale of Nini (Françoise Arnoul), a gifted woman working as a scullery maid.
- Jean Renoir
- Jean Gabin
French Cancan. Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.
- Henri Danglard
May 31, 2012 · He will open a new theater, and revive the can-can, an old-fashioned dance from the 1870s, renaming the “French Cancan” as a strategy to make it sound more exotic–not to the French, but, as we see on opening night, to American tourists and Russian sailors.
Hoping to keep his financially unstable cafe in business, Henri (Jean Gabin) takes a trip to Monmartre, where he witnesses local dancers performing the can-can, a provocative dance that has...
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- Musical, Comedy
