--- title: Moulin Rouge: Vintage Color Photos of a Legendary Cabaret's Dancers description: Color pictures made in the late 1950s -- none of them published in LIFE magazine -- featuring the cabaret's celebrated dancers canonical: https://time.com/3457388/moulin-rouge-vintage-color-photos-cabaret-dancers/ author: Ben Cosgrove article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-07T19:56:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:07:34.570Z og:title: Moulin Rouge: Vintage Color Photos of a Legendary Cabaret's Dancers og:description: Color pictures made in the late 1950s -- none of them published in LIFE magazine -- featuring the cabaret's celebrated dancers og:url: https://time.com/3457388/moulin-rouge-vintage-color-photos-cabaret-dancers/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fbe95d2e43483d4/6986a6b8e8524b56556050df/141002-moulin-rouge-02.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2960 og:image:height: 1665 og:image:alt: Moulin Rouge og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Moulin Rouge: Vintage Color Photos of a Legendary Cabaret's Dancers twitter:description: Color pictures made in the late 1950s -- none of them published in LIFE magazine -- featuring the cabaret's celebrated dancers twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fbe95d2e43483d4/6986a6b8e8524b56556050df/141002-moulin-rouge-02.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Moulin Rouge: Vintage Color Photos of a Legendary Cabaret's Dancers > Sponsored content. 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It is there, after all, that the [Moulin Rouge](http://www.moulinrouge.fr/?lang=en) — the model for a certain type of frolicsome, sophisticated nightlife the world over — has held sway for 125 years. It is there that countless men and women down through the decades have enjoyed extravagant (and cheerfully risqué) song-and-dance numbers while soaking in the atmosphere of an entertainment mecca. It is there that the energetic and, for many, scandalous [cancan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can-can) dance found its highest and most popular form of expression. It is there that, for generations, so much of what is appealing about the Parisian way of life — the stylish melding of the practical and the sensual, for example — has been on never-ending, exuberant display. Here, LIFE presents a series of color pictures made by Loomis Dean in the late 1950s — none of them published in LIFE magazine — featuring the cabaret’s rightfully celebrated dancers. Can we enthusiastically recommend taking the time to look at every single picture in the gallery? Yes, we cancan. Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter at [@LizabethRonk](https://twitter.com/LizabethRonk).  High-kicking French cancan dancers on stage at the Moulin Rouge, Paris, late 1950s. Loomis Dean—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Cancan dancers at the Moulin Rouge, Paris, late 1950s. Loomis Dean—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Dancers at the Moulin Rouge, late 1950s. Loomis Dean—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Dancers at the Moulin Rouge, late 1950s. Loomis Dean—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Dancers at the Moulin Rouge, late 1950s. Loomis Dean—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Dancers at the Moulin Rouge, late 1950s. Loomis Dean—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Moulin Rouge, late 1950s. Loomis Dean—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Moulin Rouge, late 1950s. 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