Can Can Invades the American Silver Screen
Photos from L to R: #1. Famous French actor, Jean Gabin who had a lot of compassion and admiration for Louise Weber. From "La bęte humaine" by Jean Renoir (1938). Gabin was the lover of Marlene Dietrich for many years. #2. Mexican French Cinema Beauty, Maria Felix who immortalized Louise Weber's and Jane Avril's French Can Can.
Can Can got another national/international boost when it was
visually re-created by Jean Renoir in his backstage musicals. Renoir’s early
stage sets depicting the golden days of the Moulin Rouge which began with its
street girls and virgin peasants from the French province became the backdrops
for beautiful, striking high-kicking chorus girls and their swirling
petticoats movies set and theatrical productions. The most famous picture on
Can Can was the 1955 “French Can Can” starring Jean Gabin, the lover of
Marilyn Dietrich and the iconic beauty Maria Felix Berger who
immortalized Can Can with her beauty, music, esthetic elegance and acting.
(Maria de Los Angeles Felix Guerena, one of 16 children of a wealthy family
was born in Alamos, on April 8, 1914 and died at the age of 88 on April 8,
2002). A stunning, mesmerizing, super talented star of Mexican and European
films. She was the reigning beauty and female star of the French and Spanish
speaking cinema for three decades.
Photos from L to R: #1. Lautrec who immortalized French Can can and Louise Weber (La Goulue). #2. : A Montrouge (Rosa La Rouge), 1886-87, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA. CONTINUES NEXT