Can Can

(1960)

Comedy / Musical / Romance

131 minutes

Directed by Walter Lang

Cast:

Frank Sinatra as François Durnais 
Shirley MacLaine as Simone Pistache 
Maurice Chevalier as Paul Barriere 
Louis Jourdan as Philipe Forrestier 
Juliet Prowse as Claudine 
Marcel Dalio as Andre, the head waiter 
Leon Belasco as Arturo, orchestra leader 
Nestor Paiva as Bailiff 
John A. Neris as Jacques, the Photographer 
Jean Del Val as Judge Merceaux 
Ann Codee as League president 

This film is set during 1896 in Montmartre where a dance called the Can-Can is prohibited, for women lift their skirts. Simone ignores the law and has a nightclub where she has the dance performed every night. Her girls know how to use their wiles to let the authorities ignore what they are doing or even having them enter the nightclub. Judge Philippe Forrestier is a young and eager man who wants to put an end to the dance. Simone tries to change his mind, but her boyfriend Francois is not fond of the idea.