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...done up in jewel-toned velvet and silk, are now the perfect setting for a seduction. Every room is lush, but each room is unique: the tangerine and cream No. 36 features a mirrored Art Deco bed and dressing table once belonging to the French singer Mistinguett. The mahogany-laden No. 16 witnessed Wilde's demise and now displays a green-and-gold wallpaper duplicate of an engraving in his London dining room. At $336 to $974 a night, he wouldn't have been able to afford it, but Wilde would have found L'Hotel - and indeed, the wallpaper - much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Wilde in Paris | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

...Gallic version of That's Entertainment-a montage of vintage film clips showing France's late great stars performing on-screen and -stage, in music halls and cabarets. Youthful and jaunty, Maurice Chevalier delivered a cheerful rendition of Our Hope. Edith Piaf crooned / Danced with Love. Singer Mistinguett and Actor Fernandel garnered applause from ecstatic audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Nostalgia and Nightmares | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

Before World War I, Chevalier was a partner-and lover-of the famed cabaret singer and dancer Mistinguett. Later he went on to star alone at the Folies-Bergère and the Casino de Paris. In the late '20s and early '30s he became a very highly paid American movie idol. Even Greta Garbo, for a fleeting moment, once felt that it might be nice to be with him. "Do you know how to swim, Monsieur Chevalier?" Greta asked at a dinner party in Hollywood. "Mais oui," replied Chevalier hesitantly. "Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Reserved for the Stage | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

Died. Harry Piker, 75, New York-born entertainer who became a celebrity in the 19203 as the dancing partner of French Sex Symbols Mistinguett and Gaby Deslys, and who later switched to emceeing the live entertainment in Riviera casinos; of a heart attack; in Cannes, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 27, 1961 | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:307 p.m.). Rare films of a rare time and place, Paris in the '20s, re-create a Who's Who of the Lost Generation: Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Colette, Josephine Baker, Mistinguett, Marilyn Miller, Harpo Marx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Apr. 18, 1960 | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

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