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...Technicolor extravaganzas go, Moulin Rouge is the best I have seen. Director John Huston has captured bawdy, naughty Paris at the turn of the century, and he portrays equally well back street cafes and fashionable clubs. Yet I think Technicolor was the wrong medium. The blaring red, white, and blue type of photography considerably weakens whatever artistic subtlety the film has. Although sometimes Hustson subdues the color with dawn light or smoky pallor, many scenes seem ridiculously gaudy...
...story revolves around the life and loves of Henri Toulouse Lautrec, painter of Paris seamier side. With his legs pinioned beneath him, Jose Ferrer portrays the dwarfed, crippled Lautrec. Very few across can underplay a role and be convincing , but Ferrer does just that in Moulin Rouge. Ignoring the highly emotional aspects of his character, he gives great realism to Toulouse Lautrec's pathetic figure...
...Moulin Rouge. John Huston's strikingly Technicolored film about the life & loves of French Painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; with José Ferrer (TIME...
Miss Courtney is currently appearing at Boston's Moulin Rouge nightclub after a 19-week stand at the Palace Theatre in New York. During her entertainment career she has worked for several Hollywood studios and has appeared with Milton Berle, Jackie Gleason, Bert Lahr, and Jimmy Durante...
...Moulin Rouge, José Ferrer plays the role of tormented French painter...