Parisian Pleasures
1927 · Movie · 103 min. · France
Gabrielle, an ambitious but innocent would-be young chorine, trumps a music hall publicity stunt to become the new Parisian nightclub Cinderella. But this lighter-than-champagne-bubbles story is only a pretext for LA REVUE DES REVUES's white-hot, non-stop procession of outrageously and scantily attired exotic dancers, showgirls, and acrobats including the Tiller's Follies Girls, Ruth Zackey and the Hoffmann Girls, and danseuse russe Lila Nikolska. But it's Josephine Baker, "the high priestess of primitivism", who triumphs in two show stopping numbers in which "her clownish backfield-in-motion Charleston shimmy is unlike anything else in the movie and perhaps unlike anything anyone ever did".
Direction Joe Francis
Cast Josephine Baker · André Luguet · Hélène Hallier · Pépa Bonafé · Erna Carise · Edmond Castel · Jeanne de Balzac · Madame Dehan · Gretchikine
Soundtrack Taranta-Babu
Screenplay Joe Francis · Clément Vautel
Cinematography Jimmy Berliet · Maurice Guillemin
Original title La revue des revues
5.4
28 votes (FilmAffinity)
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