Your Hit Parade

Your Hit Parade was a 1950's variety show that took popular songs and created musical numbers around them.  I can remember watching some of the shows.  Here is a specimen with a cancan.  The quality is kinoscope-poor, but it makes for a nice nostalgia trip, including the pre-Don Draper commercials.

 

(The cancan appears at about 22:00)

 

The original is at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JeMlikIhpo

By the way, I found this searching "cancan dancers" at IMDB.

The show would seem to have been an ideal format for an occasional cancan number.  And there probably are other shows from this series that, while not including actual cancans, may include other dances of interest.  An example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPDW6cFCeZE
(At about 7:25)