Can-Can / Twentieth Century Fox presents Jack Cummings' production ; produced by Suffolk-Cummings Productions and released through Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation ; produced for the stage by Feuer and Martin ; screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley and Charles Lederer ; directed by Walter Lang.

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The owner of Montmartre's most notorious nightspot, the Café Le Bal Du Paradis, Simone Pistache spends a great deal of her time in court, thanks to the banning of that "lewd and lascivious" dance, the Can-Can. So when her nightlife-loving lawyer and boyfriend, François Durnais, refuses to settle dow...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Marquee musicals.
Corporate Authors: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Suffolk-Cummings Productions
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Other Authors: Cummings, Jack, 1900-1989
Feuer, Cy
Martin, Ernest H., 1919-1995
Kingsley, Dorothy
Lederer, Charles, 1910-1976
Lang, Walter, 1898-1972
Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998
MacLaine, Shirley, 1934-
Chevalier, Maurice, 1888-1972
Jourdan, Louis
Prowse, Juliet, 1936-1996
Dalio, Marcel, 1900-1983
Belasco, Leon, 1902-1988
Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
Burrows, Abe, 1910-1985
Language:English
French
Spanish
Language of the Original:
English
Language and/or Writing System:
In English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish, with English or Spanish subtitles.
Closed-captioned.
Published: Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2007]
Series:Marquee musicals.
Subjects:
Women dancers > France > Paris > Drama.
Dance > France > Paris > Drama.
Nightclubs > France > Paris > Drama.
Man-woman relationships > France > Paris > Drama.
Montmartre (Paris, France) > Drama.
Feature films.
Musical films.
Romantic comedy films.
Film adaptations.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genre:
Drama.
Feature films.
Musical films.
Romantic comedy films.
Film adaptations.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Cole Porter's Can-Can.
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
The owner of Montmartre's most notorious nightspot, the Café Le Bal Du Paradis, Simone Pistache spends a great deal of her time in court, thanks to the banning of that "lewd and lascivious" dance, the Can-Can. So when her nightlife-loving lawyer and boyfriend, François Durnais, refuses to settle down and marry her, Simone decides to play up to his rival in romance, Parisian judge Philipe Forrestier, a lovestruck young jurist who's determined to make an honest woman out of her-- one way or the other.
Note:Based on the musical comedy by Abe Burrows.
DVD release of the 1960 motion picture.
Special features: "A leg up: the making of 'Can-Can'" featurette; "The classic Cole Porter" featurette; "Book by Burrows: the man who wrote 'Can-Can'" featurette; restoration comparison; original theatrical trailer; still galleries; interactive press book; souvenir program; behind the scenes; production stills; isolated music score.
Videorecording.
Call Number:PN1995.9.M86 C36336 2007 VideoDVD
Audience:
Not rated.
Credits:Director of photography, William H. Daniels ; editor, Robert Simpson ; songs, Cole Porter.
System Details:DVD ; Region 1 ; widescreen (2.20:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.0 surround, Dolby Digital mono. ; 1 disc dual layer, 1 disc single layer, NTSC.
Cast:
Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Juliet Prowse, Marcel Dalio, Leon Belasco.