Movies, Theatre, Opera (51 - 60)
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Vintage Bal du Moulin Rouge Giclee Art Print
This is a fine art giclee print of a vintage advertising poster for the Bal du Moulin Rouge by Jules Cheret. French women riding donkeys. The Moulin Rouge, which virtually single-handedly created the cancan craze, opened its doors on October 6, 1889, and this is the historic poster for the occasion. (The same image was used again for the 1892 season.) The donkeys are not Cheret's imagination - the two shrewd creators-promoters, Joseph Oller and Charles Zidler, actually had girls riding donkeys outside to attract attention to the place. That soon became superfluous, as all Paris came to gawk at the display of frilly female underthings by high-kickers like La Goulue, La Torpille, Miss Rigolette, Hirondelle and others, ushering in the Naughty Nineties in a swirl of petticoats. See Vintage Bal du Moulin Rouge Giclee Art Print enlarged or framed.
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Vintage Die Schonste Frau von Paris
Vintage Die Schonste Frau von Paris by W. Dietrich. This poster is for a German comic-opera film that turned into a fiasco due to its bad ending. This German romp-gone-wrong, directed by Jacob and Luise Fleck, concerns an author (Paul Richter) who meets and pursues ""the prettiest woman in Paris"" (Lili Damita), a beautiful new widow from an unhappy marriage to a cruel prince of one of those small Graustarkian countries that only pop up in films. The beauty promises to marry the writer, but when she gets news that the king of her little land has died, leaving her free to assume the throne, she cannot resist. Richter pursues her, arriving just in time to save her from assassination by an evil general (Rudolf Klein-Rogge). This is all standard comic-opera stuff until the woman takes off with another man, leaving the writer so despondent that he returns to Paris and kills himself. The audience did not appreciate the unhappy ending, and the film was a financial fiasco. See Vintage Die Schonste Frau von Paris enlarged or framed.
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Montmartre en Ballade/La Chanson en Voyage
Montmartre en Ballade/La Chanson en Voyage by Alfred Choubrac. The Musical Tapestry of the revue Montmartre in Balads The musical tapestry of the revue Montmartre in Balads/The Traveling Song remains a mystery as there are no references to any of the people associated with the project or the show itself, with the exception of Gustave Michiels, the composer, who created the music for at least one other show, an 1890 one-act comic-opera titled Columbine. See Montmartre en Ballade/La Chanson en Voyage enlarged or framed.
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Vintage J.A. Grun "La Cigale" French Theater Art Print
Vintage advertising poster for the J.A. Grun "La Cigale" French Theater Art Print. See Vintage J.A. Grun "La Cigale" French Theater Art Print enlarged or framed.
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Vintage 1800's Theater Ad Fine Art Print
This is a rare hard to find reproduction of a vintage French Carnival Theater de Opera advertising poster by Jules Cheret. See Vintage 1800's Theater Ad Fine Art Print enlarged or framed.
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Vintage Jules Cheret Theater Advertising Poster Giclee Art Print
This is a fine art reproduction of an original vintage French Theater poster by Jules Cheret Carnival. See Vintage Jules Cheret Theater Advertising Poster Giclee Art Print enlarged or framed.
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