Word: musicomical
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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Moulin Rouge (20th Century) is a sketchy compendium of familiar musicom edy patterns. Like Dancing Lady it is a backstage romance. Its show-within-a-show suggests Forty-Second Street. For plot, Moulin Rouge performs the remarkable feat of superimposing two of the dustiest of formulas. Constance Bennett, as a singer who gets a chance to star, surprises one & all by being good. Likewise she completely deceives everyone by assuming the flimsiest sort of disguise. She wishes to impress her songwriting husband (Franchot Tone) and a producer (Tullio Carminati) but does not succeed until she changes places with a Parisian...
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