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Can-Can (1960)
Director(s)	Walter Lang
Producer(s)	Saul Chaplin (associate), Jack Cummings (uncredited)
Top Genres	Comedy, Film Adaptation, Musical, Romance
Top Topics	Based on Play, Dance, Paris

Featured Cast:

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Frank Sinatra
(as François Durnais)

Shirley MacLaine
(as Simone Pistache)

Maurice Chevalier
(as Paul Barriere)

Can-Can Overview:

Can-Can (1960) was a Musical - Comedy Film directed by Walter Lang and produced by Jack Cummings and Saul Chaplin.

Academy Awards 1960 --- Ceremony Number 33 (source: AMPAS)

Award	Recipient	Result
Best Costume Design	Irene Sharaff	Nominated
Best Music - Scoring	Nelson Riddle	Nominated

Can-Can (1960)

By Beatrice on Mar 23, 2017 From Flickers in Time

Can-Can Directed by Walter Lang Written by Dorothy Kingsley and Charles Lederer from a musical comedy by Abe Burrows 1960/USA Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation/Suffolk-Cummings Productions Repeat viewing/Netflix rental There are a lot of nice Cole Porter standards and some glorious dancing i... Read full article

Musical Monday: “Can-Can” (1960)

on Jan 27, 2014 From Comet Over Hollywood

It?s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week?s musical: ?Can-Can” (1960) ̵... Read full article

Little Tiger’s Can-Can Bug (1950, Masaoka Kenz?)

on Jul 12, 2012 From The Stop Button

From the title, Little Tiger’s Can-Can Bug, one has to assume there is something lost in translation. The cartoon concerns two little tiger kittens who are working on a ship. They sing and they’re precious, but they don’t do much in Bug. There’s a grown-up tiger, a tuna boat ... Read full article

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Quotes from

François Durnais: You look like a broken umbrella.

Facts about

A duet of Frank Sinatra and Maurice Chevalier singing Cole Porter's "I Love Paris" was deleted from the release print, although the song is performed by a chorus at the beginning and end of the film. The Sinatra-Chevalier audio has been presented on Capitol's 1960 movie-soundtrack LP and 1990 CD, plus on an EMI CD import from Britain in 2000, but the film footage has yet to surface. Rendered solo by Mr. Sinatra, recorded in Los Angeles on April 13, 1960, and arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle (who served as the film's music arranger and conductor), a second "I Love Paris" originally was released later that year on a Capitol 45-rpm single. In 1998, the label added the solo "I Love Paris" as a bonus track on Mr. Sinatra's "Come Fly with Me" CD reissue.

Gwen Verdon won the 1954 Tony Award (New York City) for Supporting or Features Actress in a Musical for "Can-Can".

The Broadway production of "Can-Can" opened at the Shubert Theater in New York on May 7, 1953 and ran for 892 performances.

Featured Cast: See Full Cast

Frank Sinatra(as François Durnais)

Shirley MacLaine(as Simone Pistache)

Maurice Chevalier(as Paul Barriere)

Academy Awards 1960 --- Ceremony Number 33 (source: AMPAS)

Can-Can (1960)

Musical Monday: “Can-Can” (1960)

Little Tiger’s Can-Can Bug (1950, Masaoka Kenz?)

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Featured Cast:

See Full Cast

Frank Sinatra
(as François Durnais)

Shirley MacLaine
(as Simone Pistache)

Maurice Chevalier
(as Paul Barriere)