Folies Bergère de Paris

Folies Bergère de Paris is a 1935 American musical comedy film that won at the 8th Academy Awards for the short lived Best Dance Direction category, along with Broadway Melody of 1936. The winner was Dave Gould. This is one of only four films to win in this category.[1] The film, based on the 1934 play The Red Cat by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler, is a story of mistaken identity, with Maurice Chevalier playing both a music-hall star and a business tycoon who resembles him. This was Chevalier’s last film in Hollywood for twenty years, and reprised familiar themes such as the straw hat and a rendering of the French song "Valentine".[2] This is also the last film to be distributed by Twentieth Century Pictures before it merged with Fox Film to form 20th Century Fox in 1935.

Folies Bergère de Paris
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Directed byRoy Del Ruth
Produced byWilliam Goetz
Raymond Griffith
Darryl F. Zanuck
Written byJessie Ernst (adaptation)
Bess Meredyth (screenplay)
Hal Long (screenplay)
Darryl F. Zanuck (contributing writer-uncredited)
Based onThe Red Cat
by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler
StarringMaurice Chevalier
Ann Sothern
Merle Oberon
Music byAlfred Newman (uncredited)
CinematographyJ. Peverell Marley
Barney McGill
Edited byAllen McNeil
Sherman Todd
Production
company
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • February 22, 1935 (1935-02-22)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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See also

References
  1. "The 8th Academy Awards (1936) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved April 8, 2014.
  2. L’homme des Folies Bergere, according to Chevalier by Gene Ringgold and DeWitt Bodeen, published in 1973 by The Citadel Press, Secaucus, New Jersey, (p 130-135).
  • Green, Stanley (1999) Hollywood Musicals Year by Year (2nd ed.), pub. Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN 0-634-00765-3 page 41


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