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Colette's legs were not even seen in "Moulin Rouge," her great hit. "John Huston sees at once I am a woman. He covers my legs so nobody can see."
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THE most tantalizing, black-stockinged legs since Marlene Dietrich first unveiled her miraculous stems to a palpitating public were in "Moulin Rouge," and you, you unfortunate people, never saw them! But I, lucky devil that I am, had a private exhibition in Paree, and am still fighting for self-control.
The provocative extremities I've referred to are the sole property of Mademoiselle Colette Marchand, whom you saw in "Moulin Rouge" as Marie Charlet opposite Jose Ferrer's Toulouse-Lautrec. So realistic and uncompromising was her performance as the dirty, bedraggled trollop, that it was impossible to guess that she possessed gams of historic quality, and that she was a luscious piece of tantalizing French pastry in other important anatomical departments. Looking at the seedy slut in "Moulin Rouge," her hair straggling down her pale and hungry face, how could anyone have known that Mile. Colette is one of the foremost ballet dancers in the world?
I had a date to meet Colette at the Theatre de l'Empire in Paris, where she was starring with Roland Petit in the "Ballets de Paris." When she introduced herself, I was pleasantly surprised. She was the complete opposite of the unkempt, emaciated Marie Charlet. Colette was chic, sleek, tall, blonde and built like a precision instrument — streamlined for speedy action from the top of iCONtinued on pace 59)
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