Jacki Clérico
Jacki Clérico( March 18, 1929 – January 13, 2013) was a French businessman who owned the Moulin Rouge cabaret of Paris from 1962 until his death in 2013.
Clérico is credited with reviving the popularity of the Moulin Rouge over the course of fifty years.
Clérico was born in Paris, France, on March 18, 1929.
In 1928, his father, Joseph Clérico, a glassmaker, had moved to Paris from the Piedmont region with his brother, Louis Clérico.
The brothers had opened a Parisian glass shop.
Joseph and Louis made much of their family's fortune during the German occupation of Paris during World War II, when there was a shortage of glassmakers in the city.
The Cléricos were hired to make glass for cities throughout France and Germany which had suffered bombing damage.
They had both acquired considerable wealth through their repairs by the end of the war.
The brothers purchased the Le Lido cabaret on the Champs- Élysées in 1946.
In 1955, Joseph and Louis purchased the Moulin Rouge.
They upgraded the kitchens and marketed the venue as a tourist destination.
Still, the Moulin Rouge continued to suffer from financial distress by the early 1960s.
Jacki Clérico took over the Moulin Rouge in 1962 from his father, Joseph.
Clérico built a new aquarium for performances, expanded the auditorium, and introduced professional theater backdrops and scenery.
His first revue," Frou- Frou," opened to sold out audiences in 1963.
From that point on, Jacki Clérico only opened revues beginning with the letter" F" in keeping with a superstition that the letter brought luck beginning with" Frou- Frou".
His other revues, included" Frisson"( 1965)," Fascination"( 1967)," Fantastic"( 1970)," Festival"( 1973)," Follement"( 1976)," Frénésie"( 1979)," Femmes, Femmes, Femmes ..."( 1983), followed this tradition.
The music of these revues was composed by Henri Betti.
In 1989, Clerico opened" Formidable" to mark the 100th anniversary of the Moulin Rouge.
Guests included Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex.
The Moulin Rouge began to lose popularity again during the 1990s.
Clérico continued to produce the Moulin Rouge's trademark revues, but the cabaret nearly went bankrupt in 1997.
The last show that Clérico produced was" Féerie" in 1999, which featured one hundred dancers.
The release of Baz Luhrmann's" Moulin Rouge!" in 2001, which starred Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, and Jim Broadbent, revived the club's popularity.
The Moulin Rouge is now marketed as a family- oriented destination.
Jacki Clérico turned over the day- to- day operations of the Moulin Rouge to his son, Jean- Jacques Clérico, during his later years.
He served as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Moulin Rouge until shortly before his death.
Clérico died on January 13, 2013, at the age of 83.
Guntis Sics
Guntis Sics is an Australian sound engineer.
He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film" Moulin Rouge!"
He has worked on more than 25 films since 1992, including the 2013 adaptation of" The Great Gatsby", starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Moulin Rouge (1928 film)
Moulin Rouge is a 1928 British silent drama film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Olga Tschechowa, Eve Gray and Jean Bradin.
The film is set in and around the Moulin Rouge cabaret in Paris.
A Night at the Moulin Rouge
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Night at the Moulin Rouge( French: Une nuit au Moulin- Rouge) is a 1957 French comedy film directed by Jean- Claude Roy and starring Tilda Thamar, Noël Roquevert and Jean Tissier.
Much of the film is portrayed as taking place in the Moulin Rouge cabaret nightclub in Paris.
John Huston
John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist.
Huston was a citizen of the United States by birth but renounced U.S. citizenship to become an Irish citizen and resident.
He returned to the United States, where he lived the rest of his life.
He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948), "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950),
"The African Queen" (1951), "The Misfits" (1961), "Fat City" (1972), "The Man
Who Would Be King" (1975) and "Prizzi's Honor" (1986).
During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, winning twice, and directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins.
Huston studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris in his early years.
He explored the visual aspects of his films throughout his career, sketching each scene on paper beforehand, then carefully framing his characters during the shooting.
While most directors rely on post-production editing to shape their final work, Huston instead created his films while they were being shot, with little editing needed.
Some of Huston's films were adaptations of important novels, often depicting an "heroic quest," as in "Moby Dick", or "The Red Badge of Courage".
In many films, different groups of people, while struggling toward a common goal, would become doomed, forming "destructive alliances," giving the films a dramatic and visual tension.
Many of his films involved themes such as religion, meaning, truth, freedom, psychology, colonialism, and war.
Huston has been referred to as "a titana rebel", and a "renaissance man" in the Hollywood film industry.
Author Ian Freer describes him as "cinema's Ernest Hemingway"—a filmmaker who was "never afraid to tackle tough issues head on."
Maurizio Silvi
Maurizio Silvi is an Italian make- up artist who was nominated in the category of Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling during the 74th Academy Awards for his work on the film" Moulin Rouge!"
His nomination was shared with Aldo Signoretti.
Paul Brooke
Paul Brooke( born 22 November 1944) is a retired English actor of film, television and radio.
He is the father of actor Tom Brooke.
Moulin Rouge (1952 film)
Moulin Rouge is a 1952 British drama film directed by John Huston, produced by John and James Woolf for their Romulus Films company and released by United Artists.
The film is set in Paris in the late 19th century, following artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in the city's bohemian subculture in and around the burlesque palace the Moulin Rouge.
The screenplay is by Huston, based on the 1950 novel by Pierre La Mure.
The cinematography was by Oswald Morris.
This film was screened at the 14th Venice International Film Festival where it won the Silver Lion.
The film stars José Ferrer as Toulouse-Lautrec, with Zsa Zsa Gabor as Jane Avril, Suzanne Flon, Eric Pohlmann, Colette Marchand, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Katherine Kath, Theodore Bikel, and Muriel Smith.
China Gate (1998 film)
China Gate is a 1998 Indian action film directed by Rajkumar Santoshi.
It was released on 27 November 1998.
The song" Chamma Chamma" from the movie was used in Baz Luhrmann's film" Moulin Rouge!".
Inoue Masaru (bureaucrat)
Viscount was the first Director of Railways in Japan and is known as the" father of the Japanese railways".

Question: Who is the father of the director of film Moulin Rouge (1952 Film)?
Answer: Walter Huston