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The Moulin Rouge is a revue theatre in the Montmartre district of Paris, France. Built in 1885 it became a dance hall in 1900, and became famous for its soft-porn revue shows of the 'cancan' immortalised in the posters and drawings of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Today, the revue shows are still soft-porn, with naked and semi-naked dancers prancing about to the sounds of music and accompanied by computer-controlled light shows, and interspersed with magic shows.
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Jean Gabin (real name Jean Alexis Gabin Moncourge) was a French actor. He was born in 1904 and died in 1976. He started his career in musical hall, and appeared at the Moulin Rouge before entering films in the 1930's.
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Moulin Rouge! Is a romantic musical starring Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent and Richard Roxburgh in a story about a poet falling for a prostitute amid the seedy hedonistic world of drugs and prostitution around the Moulin Rouge revue cabaret in Paris. Moulin Rouge! Was directed by Baz Luhrmann in 2001.
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Moulin Rouge is a biographical drama starring Jose Ferrer, Colette Marchand, Suzanne Flon, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Katherine Kath in the story of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec becoming a famous painter in Paris. Moulin Rouge was directed by John Huston in 1952.
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The cancan is a soft-porn, high kicking dance which originated during the 19th century in the polka grdens of the Rue de la Grande-Chaumiere, in the Montmart region of Paris, France, but which became famous after being staged in the Moulin Rouge dance hall. Tame by today's standards, at the end of the 19th century the sight of lady dancers revealing their frilly underwear was a shocking and exciting spectacle to the spectators.
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Moulin Rouge is British theatre rhyming slang for a comedian's stooge.
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