Most Beautiful Legs - Fleurette, Nanette or Genette?

The next three contestants show why they are in the contest.

Most Beautiful Legs - Lisette, Josette or Antoinette?

The first three contestants reveal their charms.

Most Beautiful Legs

From the "Wish I'd Been There" desk:

The New York Art Directors' Club staged this contest to select the most beautiful legs from among six leg models.  What better way to ensure that the judges' opinions wouldn't be swayed by the models' pretty faces than to cover them with raised cancan skirts!  Brilliant!

You can be the judge as well.  Take a closer look at the first three contestants' legs tomorrow.  Then the other three on Monday.  The actual winner will be revealed on Tuesday.

Do you favor Lisette, Josette, Antoinette, Fleurette, Nanette or Genette?  A difficult choice.

From a Life magazine feature.

Monica Lee Witt

Dancer Monica Lee Witt (center - bottom photo) performs in The Merry Widow ballet by the National Ballet of Canada.

From her webpage:

http://www.monicaleewitt.com/images/Dancer%20Monica%20Lee%20Witt/slides/18-merry_widow_can_can_monica_witt.html

http://www.monicaleewitt.com/

Ensemble

Just about everything, including two cancan dancers, in an amateur performance.

From an EBay auction by Chambre Close:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Exertier-Nude-stripper-Pinup-Dancer-french-old-1960s-original-vintage-photo-0t06-/360672433415?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53f9c09507

Hands-on Direction

From the Pettipond:

http://www.pettipond.com/laterimages/images_stage/footlights.jpg

Identified there as from "Footlights" 1921, but that can't be right.

Simulation

From this EBay auction by Antique Photo World:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sexy-semi-nude-woman-burlesque-dancer-in-transparent-dress-vintage-pinup-photo-/381239324278?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item58c3a26e76

Antique Photo World's EBay store:

http://stores.ebay.com/mixa11?_trksid=p2047675.l2563

Off-Duty

Gwen Verdon sits one out.  From 1953's Can-Can.

From this auction on EBay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gwen-Verdon-DeeDee-Wood-Can-Can-Dancers-Magazine-Clipping-Photo-1954-/311227304633?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item487697cab9

Rehearsing for "Can-Can"

The dancer is Gwen Verdon.  Taken during a rehearsal for 1953's "Can-Can".

From an EBay auction:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SHOW-SEPT-1953-LESLIE-CARON-CELEBRITIES-MOVIES-AND-MORE-/271883109843?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f4d7f05d3

Unidentified

More from Michael Fox.  There's too much of the cut-away shots to the couple, but some excellent cancan footage interspersed.  The source film is not identified.  Can anyone identify it?

The original:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPCUIEtJeis

For a library of stockings-themed videos, see Mr. Fox's You Tube site:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAT2dGzmSM20i-WD1kCodpw

The Bird Cage Music Hall - Tombstone

The good old days at the Bird Cage Music Hall in Tombstone.  From an eBay auction:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tombstone-Country-Brothel-Madames-AhChum-Bignon-ChinaMary-IrishMay-Milgren-Rose-/370971759690?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item565fa3d44a

Bal Tabarin 1940

From this EBay auction:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/FRENCH-CAN-CAN-DANCERS-PICTORIAL-PROGRAM-ca-1940s-TABARIN-PARIS-PIERRE-SANDRINI-/381281825882?hash=item58c62af45a

Paris - Hollywood

An image from a 1950's girlie magazine, "Paris Hollywood".

See the EBay auction and more revealing images at:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/French-vtg-50s-pinup-magazine-Paris-Hollywood-strip-tease-can-can-burlesque-nude-/201363977087?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ee23a737f

Feathery

Photo by Muky Muncacsi

From this EBay auction;

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Can-Can-Dancer-photo-by-Muky-Munkacsi-Fruit-Theme-Fashion-Show-c1937-/311018878934?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item486a2b77d6

L'Atlantide - Worth Repeating

An old favorite gets an encore:

http://classiccancan.blogspot.com/2013/08/latlantide.html