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"CAN CAN " CONTINUED SHIRLEY MACLAINE (above) has what is undoubtedly the most important role of her meteoric screen career: proprietress, singing and dancing star of a popular Paris night-club whose Can-Can dance becomes the toast of entertainment-seekers, but a target for a “blue-nose" group seeking its abolishment and criminal prosecution of all participating in the number and the floor show itself. NEWCOMER JULIET PROWSE (above), a musical comedy star from Europe, makes her film debut in **Can Can r> as Shirley Mac- Lame’s sister. In the raid scene (top of page, lower right) Miss Prewse is futilely fighting a gendarme trying, and succeed- ing, to place her under arrest. 47 CHAOS RULES WHEN POLICE RAID “CAN CAN*' CAFE THE FUN, THE ROMANCE, THE SONGS AND DANCES IN TODD-AO “CAN-CAN" A finer, nor as talented, a combination of stars could, in the opinion of showmen, have been assembled than Cum- mings signed to headline “Can Can”. Frank Sinatra, on to- day’s market, must be rated at the very pinnacle of the entertainment world. In virtually every branch of that world (movies, television, radio, night-clubs and records) he is a commanding figure. Shirley MacLaine, originally from the Broadway produc- tion, “Pajama Game”, has become so popular that all of the widely circulated pictorial news-magazines, including Life and Look in this country and France’s Match, have front- paged her, with lengthy feature stories inside. She has rock- eted to undisputed major box office power. She won an Academy nomination for her performance in “Some Came Running”, and followed that with equally fine portrayals in “Ask Any Girl” and “Career”. Maurice Chevalier, who celebrated his 71st birthday and 60 years as an entertainer during “Can Can” filming, is as potent a box office star today as he was in American-produced pictures more than a score years ago. Actually, box office statistics on “Gigi” would indicate he has a greater world following than ever. Louis Jourdan is another who scored personally in “Gigi”. “Can Can” gives promise also of being the “making” of another star, India-born, South Africa-raised, England-edu- cated Juliet Prowse, who plays Claudine, Miss MacLaine’s sister. She was signed for that dancing role at the suggestion of Choreographer Hermes Pan who Had seen Miss Prowse dance in a musical in Rome. Actually, before being induced to sign a contract with this company, she was a musical com- edy star in Europe and South Africa. To the aforementioned foursome, producer Cummings assigned the vocalizing and terpsichorean interpretation of the Cole Porter music. Porter, it will be recalled, among Continued on page 58