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French Cancan (DVD)
Jean Gabin, Francoise Arnoul, Maria Felix, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Valentine Tessier, …
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Jean Renoir directs this musical comedy drama set amidst the
glittering nightlife of late 19th-century Paris. Jean Gabin stars
as theatre impresario Henri Danglard, who plans to base his new
club - the Moulin Rouge - around a modern reinvention of
traditional cancan dancing. To this end, he hires pretty young
washerwoman Nini (Francoise Arnoul) with a view to harnessing her
natural talents and making her the star of the show. But Henri's
attentions to Nini soon ignite the jealousy of his bellydancer
lover Lola (Maria Felix).
Three CD set featuring the greatest EMI recordings by this French
chanteuse. 72 tracks including 'La Vie En Rose', 'Le Petit Homme',
'Les Trois Cloches', 'Les Amants De Paris' and more. EMI. 2006.
Edith Piaf's life is almost as famous as her work. From her birth
(which she liked to tell people was in the Parisian streets, her
mother shielded by two gendarmes) to her death (when her husband
allegedly drove her corpse from the Cannes hospital where she died
to her flat, lest her fans think that she had abandoned Paris) her
life story was a rags-to-riches tale like no other. A street singer
discovered by the nightclub owner who gave her the stage name Piaf
(Sparrow), she rose to become a national heroine. Friends with
Charlie Chaplin, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jean Cocteau, Maurice
Chevalier, and Marlene Dietrich, she was also at various times
chief suspect for the murder of her mentor, an alcoholic and a drug
addict. But she always seemed to embody, and still does, something
of the spirit of Paris. Following her death in 1963, 40,000 people
descended on Pere Lachaise Cemetery for her funeral, and, 40 years
on, millions remain fans of her music.
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