Cancan

Add Renoir’s first color film, The River (1951), shot entirely in India; plus Gabin one last time, as the creator of the Moulin Rouge, in French Cancan (1954), and you’ve got a list of movies that haven’t been surpassed and won’t be.

The Best Director, Ever 2008

As reported on Cancan Online (here) a couple weeks back, Bucharest, Romania born supermodel Alina Puscau has been recruited by the powers that be for a love scene in the upcoming Conan movie!

More Conan Movie Women! Cromsblood 2010

Similar questions haunt the laundress-turned-dancer in "French Cancan" (1954), another Technicolor tour de force.

Child of Impressionism 2010

Answering my own question, Eureka, the movie was Renoir's French Cancan, lovely, just lovely...

The best movies set in Paris. Ann Althouse 2005

“Cambremer is an old acquaintance of yours, you know Cancan as well as I do.”

Time Regained 2003

Then there was the "Cancan Eccentrique," introduced by a personage called "La Princesse de Mogador," a feigned name, as you may suppose, assumed by some _fille perdue_.

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various

Demon Cancan, waving their torches and scattering the flames.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 06, May 7, 1870 Various

The Cancan has taken its place on the boards of every stage in the city, apparently to stay; and the exquisite jota and cachucha are giving way to the bestialities of the casino cadet.

Castilian Days John Hay 1870

The final forms of ultimate French churlishness being in the feminine gestures of the Cancan.

Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens John Ruskin 1859

And what Diana Vernon is to a French ballerine dancing the Cancan, the

Val d'Arno John Ruskin 1859