Moulin Rouge (1934 film)

{{short description|1934 film by Sidney Lanfield}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Moulin Rouge

| image = Moulin Rouge poster 1934.jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Sidney Lanfield

| producer = William Goetz
Raymond Griffith
Darryl F. Zanuck

| writer = Hans Kraly
Gregory La Cava
Sam Mintz

| screenplay = Nunnally Johnson
Henry Lehrman

| based_on =

| starring = Constance Bennett
Franchot Tone

| music = Alfred Newman

| cinematography = Charles Rosher

| editing = Lloyd Nibley
Lloyd Nosler

| studio = Twentieth Century Pictures

| distributor = United Artists

| released = {{Film date|1934|01|19}}

| runtime = 70 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

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.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025520/fullcredits#cast Moulin Rouge (1934) full cast and credits at IMDB] It has no relation to any other films of/with 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.{{cite news|last=Churchill|first=Douglas W.|date=December 30, 1934|title=The Year in Hollywood: 1934 May Be Remembered as the Beginning of the Sweetness-and-Light Era|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/12/30/archives/the-year-in-hollywood-1984-may-be-remembered-as-the-beginning-of.html|work=New York Times|page=X5}}