Moulin Rouge: La Goulue for the elasticity of its young dancers, both physically and morally; police officers made periodic checks to ensure that they were all wearing underwear. However, the poster by Jules Chéret advertising the club's delights, was relatively subdued, so the director Charles Zidler hired the young (only 27 years old) Toulouse-Lautrec to create a more vibrant poster. Although "Moulin Rouge: La Goulue" was Toulouse-Lautrec's first attempt at lithography, such was his grasp of the medium's possibilities that it was an immediate sensation. 3000 copies spread around Paris captivated the public with their eye-catching design, bold colors, and innovative, Japanese-inspired use of
Moulin Rouge (1952 film) he was taxed too much. "Moulin Rouge" received seven Academy Award nominations and won two: The film was not nominated for its color cinematography, which many critics found remarkable. Leonard Maltin, in his annual Movie and Video Guide declared: "If you can't catch this in color, skip it." The film received three BAFTA Nominations for The film won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer - Colette Marchand In an interview shortly after his successful film version of "Cabaret" opened, Bob Fosse acknowledged Huston's filming of the can-can in "Moulin Rouge" as being very influential on his own film