Moulin Rouge

Moderately frustrated painter Toulouse-Lautrec (Jose Ferrer) meets colleagues Anquetin, Seurat and Gauzi (Jean Landler, Christopher Lee, Robert Le Fort) at a Paris cafe, then his enthusiastic semi-agent Maurice (Lee Montague), in John Huston’s Moulin Rouge, 1952.

Still in director John Huston’s extended opening, 1890 at Moulin Rouge in Paris, Toulouse-Lautrec (Jose Ferrer) consults with the bothered owner (Harold Kasket), then everything stops as we meet Zsa Zsa Gabor, as singer Jane, song by Georges Auric and Jacques Larue, in Moulin Rouge, 1952.

Artist Toulouse-Lautrec (Jose Ferrer) has rescued streetwalker Marie (Collette Marchand) from a Paris cop, after which she invites herself home with him, beginning a key relationship, in John Huston’s Moulin Rouge, 1952.

Already several minutes into director John Huston’s opening, at club Moulin Rouge, Paris, 1890, our first look at Jose Ferrer as painter Toulouse-Lautrec, visited by a waitress (Jill Bennett), his friend Maurice (Lee Montague) and warring dancers Katherine Kath and Muriel Smith in Moulin Rouge, 1952.

French painter Toulouse-Lautrec (Jose Ferrer) searches for love despite his physical limitations in Moulin Rouge (1952), an Oscar winning biography by director John Huston.