Editing Moulin Rouge (section)

===After Mistinguett===
In 1929, Mistinguett retired from the stage, leading to the transformation of the Moulin Rouge's ballroom into an ultra-modern Night Club.

From June to August 1929, the revue ''Lew Leslie's Blackbirds'', featuring jazz singer and Broadway star [[Adelaide Hall]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Underneath a Harlem moon : the Harlem to Paris years of Adelaide Hall {{!}} WorldCat.org|url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/51780394|access-date=2024-05-24|website=search.worldcat.org}}</ref> along with a troop of a hundred black artists accompanied by the Jazz Plantation Orchestra, became the hit of the season at the Moulin Rouge.<ref name="Les secrets du Moulin Rouge">Jaques Habas, ''Les secrets du moulin rouge'', 2010</ref>

In 1937, the [[Cotton Club]], renowned in New York, was showcased at the Moulin Rouge, alongside performances by Ray Ventura and his Collegians.

During the Second World War (1939–1945), the Moulin Rouge was highlighted in the German Occupation Guide as a must-visit attraction in Paris.<ref name="we">Emotion in Motion: Tourism, Affect and Transformation, Dr David Picard, Professor Mike Robinson, Ashgate Publishing, 28 November 2012</ref> Its stage shows continued for the occupation troops and were mentioned in autobiographies of German officers such as [[Ernst Jünger]] and Gerhard Heller.<ref>Compare 'Für Volk and Führer: The Memoir of a Veteran of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, Erwin Bartmann, Helion and Company, 19 October 2013'</ref> The Germans facilitated "recreational visits" in Paris for their troops, promoting the motto "Jeder einmal in Paris" (everyone once in Paris). The widespread prostitution during the occupation eventually led to the implementation of the [[Loi Marthe Richard]] in 1946, which closed bordellos and reduced stage shows to dancing events.

In 1944, shortly after the [[liberation of Paris]], [[Édith Piaf|Edith Piaf]], who had performed frequently at social gatherings for German forces during the war, returned to the stage at the Moulin Rouge. She was accompanied by [[Yves Montand]], a newcomer chosen to perform with her.

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File:Vu (magazine) N°77.JPG|[[Vu (magazine)|''Vu'']], issue N°77, Wednesday, 4 September 1929, front cover, with [[Adelaide Hall]] star of ''[[Blackbirds of 1928|Blackbirds]]'' at the Moulin Rouge, titled "Au revoir Black Birds !", saying farewell after a production run of four months
File:De Moulin Rouge in Parijs bij avond, Bestanddeelnr 254-5695.jpg|Moulin Rouge Cinema at night, 1936. 
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-129-0480-25, Paris, deutsche Soldaten vor dem Moulin Rouge.jpg|Two German soldiers, with two women, in front of the Moulin Rouge, during the [[Fall of France|Nazi occupation]], June 1940.
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