Gay Parisian Gaîté Parisienne Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Frederick Franklin Leonide Massine 1941

Gaité Parisienne Jacques Offenbach
Leonide Massine
Frederick Franklin
Nathalie Krassovska
Milada Mladova
Andre Eglevsky
Igor Youskevitch
Lubov Roudenko
Casimir Kokitch
James Starbuck
Re-uploaded as one complete file

[@charlestimberlake5522]

I have read that one of the members of the corps de ballet was Cyd Charisse before she had a film career. I've never spotted her.

[@londontaxifilms7313]

My Dad, Kazimir Kokich, is in this! White tights with circles!

[@ciebellesdances8404]

We can here understand so wonderfully what a theatrical and choreographically genius was Massine! What a variety in the groups, duos, trios, soli! It is a rseldom document, and so marvelous!

[@elisabethchevaliernaud3670]

Vive Offenbach, que le monde entier nous envie ! Un génie, au même niveau de talent que tous les autres grands compositeurs !

[@tylerwhoisafanoffanstrains9246]

❤❤❤

[@marinaoreshkevich549]

It was nice to see this wonderful ballet filmed in 1940-s and see how much ballet technique improved in comparison with 1920-30-s. I recognize right the way Russian style and energy…and composition. Thank you.

[@BytomGirl]

What do you by improved? Higher jumps and extensions? I don't consider it improvement

[@marinaoreshkevich549]

@@BytomGirl do you consider that ballet didn’t improve till now?

[@martinlieberman8678]

Thanks so much for posting this lovely ballet!

[@dougr.2398]

I’ve known and loved the Can-can since age 5 thanks to my parents, and the rest of the music to Gaiety Parisienne since my teens or later and of course the Barcarolle. I studied ballet at ages 8, 27 & 42 but never performed. Thank you so much for presenting this!

[@tylerwhoisafanoffanstrains9246]

Wow same here but i was 12 when i started listening to it and i am 16. And i am going to be 17 in April. But yea this is really good. ❤❤

[@IBScaramouche]

What a delight! Having known this music since my teens in the '50's, it's really a joy to see it brought to life with such finesse.

[@queenmedesa]

Beautiful costumes!

[@kavalkid1]

My childhood memories come to life. Thank you!

[@tylerwhoisafanoffanstrains9246]

Its really great music. What made you start listening to it? What do u like most about it?

[@BytomGirl]

The best quality I have seen. Thank you.

[@tylerwhoisafanoffanstrains9246]

I heard this song on the radio yesterday. It was really good.

[@Stoclet]

Hi, jkircher314! This one is much better than the other one, in two parts! Thank you so much! I adore Offenbach and this Gaité Parisienne with Massine as the Peruvian is just adorable!

[@venville2]

Just watched a documentary about the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and it's key dancers over the decades. Frederick Franklin was one of them. R.I.P. Frederick. Wonderful stories related in this Public TV programme. The lady ballerina's still living are wonderful as are the male dancers.

[@terryr.1243]

I was curious and TRIED to look-up info on Milada Mladova AND found only sketchy info; was this because her name is Slavic (Russian [?]). This is one of those curious things I will TRY to follow; like Alicia Alonzo and Jose B... (Suddenly I can't find ANY listing of him; He performed one of the first performances of Coppélia I ever saw) from Cuba, and many-MANY others.

[@zinam5795]

I was surprised, when finding, that Anton Dolin is not Russian....

[@vaslav030547]

What a treasure to find this film. Dance legends Leonide Massine and Freddie Franklin, who's wig he wore as the poet in 'La Sonnambula' and is a star in my Ballet, Dance,Theatre,.collection.

[@Edward245100]

At long last an HQ version of this most enjoyable of all short ballets!

[@luannfeld3983]

Have always loved Massine!

[@jimhooper4252]

How wonderful for you to be able to watch him at work ! Terrific

[@JohnDoe-lp2dz]

For me, the greatest star in this movie is Lubov Roudenko, the cancan girl who does the vertiginous fouettes: a huge talent wasted in Broadway and retired too soon.

[@tommyrall3]

Great,beautiful.Massine was ahead.

[@dedocorazon100]

Que maravilla de documento. Gracias

[@richardduployen6429]

Rosenthal's "le Rayon des Soieries" which sounds a bit like "Are you being Served" 25 mins. & "la Poule Noire" 1 hour are on youTube. There is a full d v. d. 37 mins.)of "Gaite Parisienne" Ballets Russes on youTube Tamara Tourmanova in black & white.

[@MrMhidalgot]

Wonderful...!!! Joy !! Vitality!!

[@michaelspilman5220]

Although this is nicely shot I found it incomprehensible there seemed to be a total lack of story. From Michael from Yorkshire and proud of it.

[@richardduployen6429]

Where was this shown? As you can tell from the other recordings on youTube the ballet is shortened. I've identified the sources from the operettas and "the Tales of Hoffmann". Rosenthal as an arranger of Offenbach was not good. His discordant versions of arias for Jennie Tourel & "Offenbachiana"(appalling & of course dated!) I'll have another look on youTube for his operettas from the thirties. It's great to have something of the company on film. Watch Massine in character roles a bit later in "the Red Shoes" and "the Tales of Hoffmann" by Powell & Pressburger one of the best opera films ever but re-invented to involve ballet-dancers. Obviously I would have liked to see Grahame Clifford. He was the only operatic baritone soloist to have played the light comedy leads for D'Oyly Carte. He played Alberich, Faninal etc. for the Royal Opera House, London. He deputised for Martyn Green during the Second World War. He's on the soundtrack & mimed as Spalanzani & Franz by Massine. He also appears in the curtain-call (on youTube). I don't understand why Franz's aria (on the sound recording) is omitted from the film. There is a photo of Massine acting it. But there is also a photo of Pamela Brown (actress) draped in gold tulle as the Muse also omitted from the film. I told Michael Powell's widow but she didn't reply.

[@wendyverdades3013]

Massine: choreographer and danseur!

[@minissa2009]

Massine is hilarious! I think of his as more of a character dancer, but I've never seen anyone do a clean double tour this fast. Is Youskevitch the can-can dance master, and is Eglevsky the Count?

[@Stoclet]

Still love it!

[@firenze5555]

Leonide Massine replaced the great Nijinsky in the Ballet Russe under Diaghilev and you can see the brilliance in his dancing.

[@stephenhemingway8218]

Must admit I love it but feel slightly sad at the same time. By 1941 the war would have been in full swing. Did the ballet spend the whole war in the USA?

[@gpcrawford8353]

Amazing quality for 1941 has it been digitally restored? There is also a short film of Ballet Russe also while they were in Hollywood using Rimsky-korsakov's Spanish caprice though the quality is no where near the same. I too have the documentry of the Ballet Russe on DVD and indeed it uses clips of this ,Gay Parisian and the Spainish Caprice.

[@user-dm5hr2uo3c]

не смею ...но мы родственники...племянница Евгения Михайловна ныне здравствуюшая!!!дай БОГ нам всем здоровья!!!!

[@KARAMAZOUTDOOWOP]

music by Arthur Fiedler and Boston pops orchestra

[@Pearlaceous]

I love Offenbach! :-) This is adorable!

[@tylerwhoisafanoffanstrains9246]

Same here 😊

[@kevinsmith5360]

Is this the building from Sunset Boulevard?

[@stanochocki8984]

In watching this performance, of Massine's; does any one else seem to realize that one is watching the inspiration or Muse for many of Danny Kaye's physical antics? It is as if one can almost 'visualize' Mr. Kaye, doing this routine. Felt the same per the "Red Shoes". Not a 'fan' of Massine. way to theatrical and over-rated, then and now. Though he would a great, great asset in Character roles.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

this is very enjoyable to see on a stage --- but on film with all the close ups and abrupt edits, not as enjoyable

[@margueritejohnson6407]

Marcel Audubon It’s the only way to see great dancers now.

[@abevillanueva1974]

Can anyone specifically share where Cyd Charisse appears?

[@zyral.f.6938]

Nowhere here, simple search finds she wasn't filmed until an uncredited ballet sequence in 1943 movie then known as Lily Norwood. Changed name to Cyd C. in '46 when hired by MGM.

[@badger4382]

At 15:40 , that gorgeous girl with that smile just threw me out of balance...! How can she do that?

[@innocenzobarrera1505]

Di una pienezza e ricchezza senza pari ! ! !

[@anniemihn]

Massine was better as an actor than as a dancer no?

[@jkircher314]

+Sonia A. No. Have you seen him in The Red Shoes?

[@anniemihn]

Yes.

[@stanochocki8984]

Yes, and Massine's dancing is way-too theatrical. Nearly a mimic. He was too fey in his roles, by default and exaggerated mannerisms, that did seem to be the 'rage' for nearly all male dancers at the time; he was just to dull in his skills or craftsmanship, One suspects that the main reason that he was in the company was more the cause that he was sleeping with the Director or someone, and hence, was the 'darling' prima donna. thanks for posting.

[@askenderiii2374]

His double tours-en-l'air are impeccable, though !!! Plus, his choreographies were successful at the time !!!

[@pediatrapaola]

always faund massine an awful dancer .

[@Marcel_Audubon]

he's 45 here, guessing he does ok for a 45 year old ... his prime, which was 25 years before this, was never captured on film

[@margueritejohnson6407]

He took over as premier dancer with Diaghilev after Nijinsky. He was not an awful dancer.

[@stanochocki8984]

In watching this performance, of Massine's; does any one else seem to realize that one is watching the inspiration or Muse for many of Danny Kaye's physical antics? It is as if one can almost 'visualize' Mr. Kaye, doing this routine. Felt the same per the "Red Shoes". Not a 'fan' of Massine. way to theatrical and over-rated, then and now. Though he would a great, great asset in Character roles.