Ding Dong Night at the Moulin Rouge (1951)

The Moulin Rouge theatre in sunny Oakland, California, plays host to a parade of gutsy dames in W. Merle Connell’s unparalleled cult oddity Ding Dong Night at the Moulin Rouge (1951). The girls employed by the burlesque theatre put their talent to use spiking the punch bowl, ad-libbing comedy skits, and cross-dressing for kicks. Unforgettable hostess Pat Flannery presides over the proceedings, but it’s chorus girl Illona who goes for broke during her stint on stage. The leggy beauty will have you forgetting that it’s the ‘50s as she wags her trunk for all of Oakland’s finest to see.