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Florentine Bourgeois (5
April 1873 – 5
January 1956),
known professionally as
Mistinguett (French: [mistɛ̃ɡɛt]), was a
French actress and singer. She was at one...
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connection to the
Duchess of Morny,
leading to the show
being banned.
Mistinguett made her
debut at the
Moulin Rouge on 29 July 1907 in the
Revue de la...
- Émilienne d'Alençon,
Liane de Pougy, and La
Bella Otero. The
famous Mistinguett became one of the most po****r
French artists of her time
while Madame...
- nonetheless. An unsigned,
undated review in
Publishers W****ly says of The
Mistinguett Legend: Bret
focuses on her many eccentricities,
connections with Parisian...
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dance known as the
French Cancan. It
helped make
famous the
singers Mistinguett and Édith Piaf and the
painter Toulouse-Lautrec, who made
posters for...
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dance known as the
French Cancan. It
helped make
famous the
singers Mistinguett and Édith Piaf and the
painter Toulouse-Lautrec, who made
posters for...
- even
bigger impact with it,
partnered with
Mistinguett, in the
Moulin Rouge show, La
Revue du Moulin.
Mistinguett described the
dance as, "an alternation...
- means".
Other former residents include Marlon Brando,
actress and
singer Mistinguett, and the
blind writer Jorge Luis Borges, who said it
seemed to have been...
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millionaire Henri de Rothschild, who
offered a
prize of 600 Fr, and the
dancer Mistinguett, who
offered 100 Fr. The
winners were
Goulet and Fogler, an American-Australian...
- and Dans un
fauteuil gave rise to
stardom for
Maurice Chevalier and
Mistinguett.
American influences such as
musicals underlay the
success of the Folies...