Moulin Rouge is an American pre-Code musical film released on January 19, 1934, by United Artists, starring Constance Bennett and Franchot Tone. It contained the songs "Coffee in the Morning and Kisses in the Night", and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Al Dubin. Lucille Ball appears in an uncredited role as a show girl in the film. It has no relation to any other films of the same name. The cast also includes Tullio Carminati, Helen Westley, Russ Brown, Hobart Cavanaugh and Georges Renavent.
The film was Twentieth Century Pictures' fourth most popular movie of the year.
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Plot
A singer marries a famous composer, and after a while she gets the itch to go back on the stage. However, her husband will not let her do so. When she hears that a popular French singer named "Raquel" is coming to New York, she decides to go to Raquel with a plan—unbeknownst to her husband, "Raquel" is actually her old stage partner who happens to look EXACTLY like her, and her plan is for them to switch places so she can fulfill her dream of going back on the stage. However, things do not go quite as planned.
Cast
Constance Bennett as Helen Hall
Franchot Tone as Douglas Hall
Tullio Carminati as Le Maire
Helen Westley as Mrs. Morris
Russ Columbo as himself
The Boswell Sisters as Themselves
Soundtrack
"The Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Al Dubin
Performed by Constance Bennett in rehearsal
Reprised by Constance Bennett and chorus in the show finale
"Coffee in the Morning and Kisses in the Night"
Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Al Dubin
Sung by Constance Bennett at audition
Reprised by Constance Bennett with Russ Columbo and also The Boswell Sisters in the show finale
"Song of Surrender"
Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Al Dubin
Sung by Tullio Carminati while playing the piano