Photos
from T to B:
#1.The Radio City Rockettes.
#2.
Louise Weber.
One day, Can Can will deeply influence America’s Rockettes and “Ziegfeld Follies” and change the geography and choreography of American Cabaret theater landscape. This is when, why and how the term “Follies” entered the welcoming world of American Cabaret, Burlesques, Cabaret theatrical Music, American Cabaret acts, Broadway Musicals, shows on steam boat sailing the Mississippi, New Orleans foggy Cabarets, night clubs and strip tease joints on Bourbon Street, and of course , later on inspire “Ziegfeld follies. After all, “Follies” is French. It is the plural of “La Follie” meaning madness. And part of its universal madness was “La Folie de Jeanne Avril and Louise Weber”, co-queens of the original Can Can.
Missouri Rockets
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Photos,
from L to R: #1. Poster of the film "Moulin Rouge", starring Jose Ferrer and
Zsa Zsa Gabor. #2. Poster of the film "French Can Can", starring Jean Gabin,
Francoise Arnoul, Maria Felix and Jean Renoir. Both films rotated around
Louise Weber and Jane Avril Can Can.
The group first
came to life in 1925 as the "Missouri Rockets" and made their grand show
business debut in St. Louis, Missouri; the materialization of a "life-time
dream" of Russell Markert, the creator of the original Rockets.