Can-Can (1960)

Directed by

Walter Lang

Genre

musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 11m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 35 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1890s Paris, a nightclub owner fights to keep her dance hall open after the local authorities outlaw the scandalous can-can dance. A judge arrives to close the club but falls for the owner instead.

livelyglamorouswhimsicalplayfulmusicalromanticnostalgic

What happens

Can-Can is a 1960 American musical film made by Suffolk-Cummings productions and distributed by 20th Century-Fox. It was directed by Walter Lang, produced by Jack Cummings and Saul Chaplin. The screenplay was written by Dorothy Kingsley and Charles Lederer, loosely based on the musical play by Abe Burrows. The music and lyrics were written by Cole Porter for the play, but for the film, some songs were replaced by those from earlier Porter musicals. Art direction was handled by Jack Martin Smith and Lyle R. Wheeler, costume design by Irene Sharaff and dance staging by Hermes Pan. The film was photographed in Todd-AO. Although performing well on initial release, it failed to recoup its production costs from its domestic receipts. The film stars Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jourdan, and gave Juliet Prowse her first speaking role in a feature. Sinatra, who was paid $200,000 along with a percentage of the film's profits, acted in the film under a contractual obligation required by 20th Century-Fox after he had walked off the set of Carousel in 1955. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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