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Can-Can (1960)
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Overview
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Release Date:
9 March 1960 (USA)
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Tagline:
The Entertainment Event of the Year!
Plot:
1896, Montmartre: the Can-Can, the dance in which the women lift their skirts, is forbidden. Nevertheless...
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Paris France
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars.
Another 5 wins
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5 nominations
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A high good time!
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Frank Sinatra | ... | François Durnais |
 | Shirley MacLaine | ... | Simone Pistache |
 | Maurice Chevalier | ... | Paul Barriere |
 | Louis Jourdan | ... | Philipe Forrestier |
| Juliet Prowse | ... | Claudine |
| Marcel Dalio | ... | Andre - the head waiter |
| Leon Belasco | ... | Arturo - orchestra leader |
| Nestor Paiva | ... | Bailiff |
| John A. Neris | ... | Jacques - the Photographer |
| Jean Del Val | ... | Judge Merceaux |
| Ann Codee | ... | League president |
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Also Known As:
Cole Porter's Can-Can (USA) (complete title)
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131 min
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2.20 : 1 more
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Mono (35mm) (optical prints) |
70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording System) |
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Gwen Verdon won the 1954 Tony Award (New York City) for Supporting or Features Actress in a Musical for "Can-Can".
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François Durnais:
You look like a broken umbrella.
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Referenced in "Murphy Brown: Signed, Sealed, Delivered (#1.4)" (1988)
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Soundtrack:
It's All Right With Me
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I was all set to dislike "Can-Can" for a variety of reasons (not the least of which is Frank Sinatra cast in a musical set in 1896 France...Frank Sinatra??), but the film is a lot of fun. Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine are in good spirits throughout this pleasing adaptation of the stage-success about a dance-hall proprietress who defends her right to perform the scandalous title-named dance, deemed lascivious in its day. It runs a little too long, and MacLaine is more comfortable in her love scenes with Ol' Blue Eyes than with Louis Jourdan (who doesn't match up well with Shirley at all--he looks puny next to her), but otherwise it's surprisingly enjoyable and Juliet Prowse gives her small part as a dancer a great deal of zest. **1/2 from ****