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15 unusual facts about ''Moulin Rouge''


André Pousse

For many years, he was the artistic director of the Moulin Rouge in Paris and many other establishments, including the Casino of Lebanon.

Angus Strathie

Strathie went on to design the costumes for a TV production of the famous Puccini opera La Boheme before his work on the famous Moulin Rouge an achievement that won him an Academy Award in 2001 for Best Costume Design.

Clara Ward, Princesse de Caraman-Chimay

She combined the two by posing on various stages, including at least the Folies Bergère and probably also the Moulin Rouge, while wearing skin-tight costumes.

Danny Saber

He has also scored and or contributed music to a wide range studio and films (Blade II, Moulin Rouge, Dallas 362, The Limey, Played).

David Baerwald

Outside of popular music, Baerwald has worked extensively as both a songwriter and instrumental score composer in film and television, including the Golden Globe-nominated song from the Baz Luhrman musical Moulin Rouge! called "Come What May", for which he also won the International Film Music Award, and which has been covered by a wide variety of international artists.

Down with Love

According to the DVD commentary, it was added at the suggestion of Ewan McGregor, who pointed out the opportunity the filmmakers had to unite the stars of two recently popular musical films (his Moulin Rouge! and Zellweger's Chicago).

Fantástico

The opening had a traditional ballet, but in different seasons: In 1973, they had a style similar to the spectacle musical Pippin, the following years, a Moulin Rouge style.

Fred Oberlander

He also won the 1935 World Exhibition Championship in Brussels, the 1937 Moulin Rouge International Championship, the Allied Championships of 1944, and the Commonwealth Games title in 1948, in addition to several silver and bronze medals.

Green Mill Cocktail Lounge

It was renamed Green Mill Gardens a few years later, a nod to the famous Moulin Rouge ("Red Mill") of Paris.

Jacqueline Voltaire

She danced in the some of the world's most famous nightclubs, including the Moulin Rouge, the Casino de Paris and Le Lido.

Jorge Dorado

He began his career working in the department director of films like Bad Education and Talk to Her, Pedro Almodóvar, The Devil's Backbone, Guillermo del Toro or Moulin Rouge!, Baz Luhrmann.

Laura Henderson

This also was a commercial failure, so they added the dimension of nudity to emulate the Folies Bergère and the Moulin Rouge.

The Witch of the Low Tide

Detective-Inspector Twigg of Scotland Yard tries to warn Dr. Garth about the chequered past of Lady Calder, but it takes all the nerve of Garth's friend Cullingford Abbot, assistant to the Commissioner of Scotland Yard, to state that, among other things, Betty danced for three seasons at the Moulin Rouge and is thought to have joined a Satanist group in Paris.

Vivian Van Damm

She then hired Van Damm and they produced Revudeville, a programme of continuous variety with 18 entertainment acts, but this was also a commercial failure, so they added the dimension of nudity to emulate the Folies Bergère and the Moulin Rouge.

What Goes Around... Comes Around

The video starts off with Timberlake flirting with Johansson on the rooftop of a 1950's Moulin Rouge circus-style club.


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Can-can dress

For example, in the number "Zidler's Rap (The Can-Can)" in the film Moulin Rouge, director Baz Luhrmann redesigned the can-can dresses into multi-coloured flower patterns, to make the otherwise boring dresses sexually tantalizing to modern day audiences.

Chamberlayne College for the Arts

For example the previous yearselections from a variety of musicals were performed by each year group had a certain musical(s) to perform, includingHairspray, Oliver!, Moulin Rouge, Bugsy Malone, Dirty Dancing and High School Musical 2.

Fox Music

Highlights include the record-breaking soundtracks from Titanic, Waiting to Exhale, Moulin Rouge!, Garden State, Romeo + Juliet, The Full Monty, Hope Floats, Dr. Dolittle, Bulworth, Anastasia, Walk the Line, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Once, and Juno.

Jane Avril

Zsa Zsa Gabor portrayed Avril in the original Moulin Rouge (1952); half a century later, the semi-fictionalized character was reinterpreted by Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge! (2001).

Le plus grand cabaret du monde

At the end of the show, Patrick Sébastien traditionally sings one of his songs, surrounded by dancers from the Moulin Rouge! and in the presence of all the artists who performed that evening.

Maurice Seezer

He has also contributed to the original soundtracks of numerous other films, such as Disco Pigs, Short Cuts, Romeo and Juliet, The Boxer, Moulin Rouge and In America.

Ritu Beri

Her notable international clients are former US President Bill Clinton, Prince Charles, Moulin Rouge, Nicole Kidman, Hollywood actress Andie MacDowell, Supermodel Laetitia Casta, famous Parisian Socialite Mrs. Lagerdere, Langes Swarovski & The Swarovski family, Elizabeth Jagger and Jerry Hall.

Shrek: Music from the Original Motion Picture

The album was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music (lost to the score of Moulin Rouge!) and the Grammy Award for "Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media" (lost to the score of O Brother, Where Art Thou?).

Toni Dalli

In February 1958, he did his first Ed Sullivan Show in New York, following by major performances at the Moulin Rouge, Hollywood and the Desert Inn in Las Vegas.