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Box office. 4,075,306 admissions (France) [1] 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.
The can-can (also spelled cancan as in the original French /kɑ̃kɑ̃/) is a high-energy, physically demanding dance that became a popular music-hall dance in the 1840s, continuing in popularity in French cabaret to this day. [1] Originally danced by couples, it is now traditionally associated with a chorus line of female dancers. [2]
David Turecamo looks at the history of the music hall dance once considered scandalous but now accepted as a symbol of France as recognizable as the Eiffel T...
- 5 min
- 77.3K
- CBS Sunday Morning
A film about the revival of the cancan dance in Paris in 1890, starring Jean Gabin as a theater producer and Françoise Arnoul as a laundress turned dancer. See cast, crew, reviews, trivia, soundtrack and more on IMDb.
- (4.5K)
- Comedy, Drama, Musical
- Jean Renoir
- 1956-04-16
The French Cancan dance is an eight-minute performance facing the audience, during which dancers measuring 5’7” tall lead the dance to a piece of music by Offenbach. It’s an art that requires Parisian cabaret dancers to have balance, flexibility, acrobatic ability and rhythm.
- Moulin Rouge
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.
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The Beginnings of a Legendary Dance. In the early 19th century, the trend was for both public and private balls held in hotels, where the Parisian bourgeoisie of the Belle Epoque enjoyed gathering. It is in this context that the chahut or chahut-cancan first appeared, later known as the cancan or coincoin, a galop danced as a couple in balls ...
