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Can-Can (film)
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| Can-Can | |
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| Directed by | Walter Lang |
| Produced by | Jack Cummings Saul Chaplin |
| Written by | Dorothy Kingsley Charles Lederer Abe Burrows(play) |
| Starring | Shirley MacLaine Frank Sinatra Louis Jourdan Maurice Chevalier Juliet Prowse Marcel Dalio |
| Music by | Cole Porter (Composer Music Score) Nelson Riddle (Musical Direction) |
| Cinematography | William H. Daniels |
| Editing by | Robert L. Simpson |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox |
| Release date(s) | 9 March 1960 |
| Running time | 131 min. |
| Country | US |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Can-Can is a 1960 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, from a screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley and Charles Lederer, based on the musical play by Abe Burrows with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Art direction was 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. It was, after Ben-Hur, the top grossing film of 1960.
The film starred Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier and introduced Juliet Prowse in her first film role.
The film contains some of Cole Porter's most enduring songs, including I Love Paris, It's All Right With Me, and C'est Magnifique. Some of the songs from the original Broadway musical were replaced by other Porter songs, including Let's Do It, Just One of Those Things and You Do Something to Me.
The film received two Academy Awards nominations: for Costume Design: Irene Sharaff and Best Original Music Score: Nelson Riddle.
During the filming, Soviet premier Nikita Kruschev famously visited the 20th Century Fox studios [1] and was allegedly shocked by the goings-on. He took the opportunity to make propagandistic use of his visit and described the dance, and by extension, American culture as "depraved" and "pornographic" [2]
2. Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
- Can-Can at the Internet Movie Database
