Word: moulins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moulin Rouge (Romulus; United Artists). John Huston's film about the life and loves of Artist Toulouse-Lautrec; with Jose Ferrer (see below...
...Moulin Rouge (Romulus Films; United Artists) is a fictionalized biography of famed French Painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). The son of a nobleman, Lautrec was crippled in childhood and grew up an ugly, aristocratic dwarf who tried, in cognac and in the brothels and bistros of Paris, to forget the pain in his legs and heart. When he died at 37, after a feverish lifetime that included a sojourn in a madhouse, he left behind him a vivid record of the lower depths of Paris, its harlots and hunted, defeated and disfigured, drawn with artistry, insight and compassion...
...Moulin Rouge (John Huston; United Artists), a biography of dwarfish Painter Toulouse-Lautrec, starring José Ferrer, wearing shoes on his knees, in his bid for a second award (his first: Cyrano de Bergerac...
...Manhattan, Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, returning from some cinemaking (Moulin Rouge) in London and Paris, paused long enough to explain why she was rushing back to Hollywood and husband George Sanders (who claimed sourly last year that "I have been discarded like a squeezed lemon"). Said Zsa Zsa: "He's so wonderful. George does not trust me-or rather, he is jealous. This is the way husbands should be, but of course he has nothing to worry about. I love only...
...serious make-up problem for Director John Huston and Actor José Ferrer. Toulouse-Lautrec was a dwarf who stood 4 ft. 8 in., and Ferrer, who plays the part, is 5 ft. 11. The solution: Ferrer plays the part on his knees. Last week as the film, Moulin Rouge, neared completion in London, Ferrer showed photographers the "torture boots" that enable him to walk like a dwarf. Few movie stars since the days of Lon Chancy have submitted to such complicated and elaborately painful makeup...