Cafe de Paris Film Set (1929)

[Gryphonalia]

It's a rather boring ballroom if you really look at it, and the air circulation was probably poor, making it a stuffy place to be. But yes, it's elegant because the people dressed up. My dad (born 1929) is a great one for saying "in the old days they all dressed up" but he hasn't worn a tie or a jacket since 1962.

Wanna be elegant? Dress up. Take a bath, put on a starched shirt and a tie, polished shoes, silk stockings, and wear a coat if the weather is foul. Elegance was never fun.

[Silvervaio55]

The sophisticated set......What a bunch of Pricks !!!!!

[kagarman]

thats frome "Piccadilly" movie

[MBproduction100]

the band's original? I mean the one recorded by the camera

[euanrafferty]

Cafe de Paris is being transported back to it's hey day starting on the 15th February with the launch of the Cafe de Paris girls. Dress code is Dinner Suits and evening gowns euan(at)thehcconline(dot)com

[euanrafferty]

Cafe de Paris is being transported back to it's hey day starting on the 15th February with the launch of the Cafe de Paris girls. Dress code is Dinner Suits and evening gowns.

[howardone8]

yes very nice londons elite .while the masses starved

[victorbrunswick]

I love the Jack Hylton arrangement of "You're The Cream In My Coffee" To me it's definitive version of this song.

[sterlinggreg]

Aaron 1912 "Your the cream in my coffee" Thanks for the great nostalgia trip!!!

[chaordic]

You don't even know how thankful I am to be reassured "Congratulate Me" actually exists as recorded audio (same goes for a lot of old popular music, but this one's been stuck in my head for daaaaaayyyyyyys). Love that song. 

[TCDS75]

¡Qué música bailable! Quien fuera joven y practicar muchas horas.

[dickandchristina]

The most popular Cafe de Paris is in Monte Carlo right next to the casino.

[Talulah1997]

WHEN did nightlive and dances get so BORING today....I would have loved so much to have lived back then, even with all the economic problems (we do have them today, too) life seems to have been so much more flamboyant and fun and stressless...

[JoseildesFonseca]

Essa época foi maravilhosa...

[johnnysbasement]

@Aaron1912 Uh, Cafe de Paris is still open. It's in London. Look it up.

[RogueTheElfWarrior1]

Great video. It's a shame that clubs today aren't like this anymore. Or at least, not the ones I know of. Anyway, I've always wanted to travel back into time and spend a week in 1926, just to see what it would be like to live in that era.

[gulis4u]

Dette var rett før det gikk til helvete. Jaja. Det var vakkert i alle fall.

[Encephalomaniac]

I want a time machine!

[Lioyd1rving]

@Encephalomaniac Since the Earth moves, you'd actually end up in space. :v

[Encephalomaniac]

@Lioyd1rving Not if it's a TARDIS ;)

[studioladanza]

I am a dancing teacher and one of my ex students was in this club when it was bombed. She lost an eye which was lucky in comparison to others, she went on to be an amazing Ballroom dancer winning many trophies and still was dancing in her late 80's....a real trooper

[kingofwalzer]

what is the name of the music?

[pernetap]

@kingofwalzer: 'It's Congratulate Me' (Lou Handman, 1943, performed by Guy Lombardo) - Congratulate me, step right up, shake my hand...

[irvinf12]

agreed indeed its like what happened to america because it aint great anymore

[Iris81408]

Tall hats, tux, and polished shoes. Wow...........now those were the days. When I was a little girl I fell in love with a man that could dance on air. You know him Mr. Fred Astaire. How I still love to watch him dance even today. I was only 5 years old then and I wanted to meet him so bad. While little girls played with dolls I was thinking, "You're All the World to Me". I wanted to dance on the walls and ceiling. My father would just look at me and smile.

[KnightGarter]

What is the name of the first piece played?

[pernetap]

@KnightGarter :See above

[pernetap]

@KnightGarter You can hear it in the 1974 movie Front Page as well: watch?v=TUJ5F37MpEs&feature=re­lated

[stalelicorice]

just a sigh, a deep sigh.

[ovaltrack1]

Great music. Thanks for the post.

[brewerboy]

God..I love this era and it's music...

[luvebug21]

@brewerboy this song is on the top charts for me atm

[luvebug21]

Hello ,i want to say that this is so nice the sepia tone makes it look very rich

[kikddabottle]

maybe it's music,the people or the decoration but this Cafe de Paris looks far different,newer and generally better than the one in todays pictures(yes i know about the bomb but still). Not that I mind tarting things up to look Edwardian!

[bbcisrubbish]

The reopened Cafe de Paris was a popular dance venue in the 1950s and 60s.

It is in Coventry Street near to Leicester Square.

I used to go dancing there, when it was expected the patrons would have a wash before they went out.

Not like the scruffy squalour one sees today.

[butchfoot]

was there an original soundtrack with this film? Thanks

[tomahawktassels]

This is AMAZING!

I had no idea this place was so old,

or that they held events here like this in the TWENTIES!

I was just here a few months ago,

for the London Burlesque Festival.

Thanks for posting.

[fairystar26]

This was made 56 years before I was born. . . How I wish I were there.

[sammyb1929]

i was 15 years old when they made this and i took to this music like a duck to water i love it and always will

[BEDOab]

Very many thanks for that clip, I was 3years old when that was made. I always loved the dance bands of those days and still do.

[FranzVeRo]

This is a fragment from the filn Picadilly (1929), Ewald André Dupont.

[racingrubberbiker]

The male dancer is Cyril Richard, for "celebrity"spotters out there.

The Cafe de Paris received a direct bomb hit in WW2 with many dead.

[msjosephh]

your the cream in my coffee, your the salt in my stew

[spike2969]

Hello,

Great video. Can you tell me what's the name of the first dance please? It's very important, it's for a schoolwork.

Thanks.

[008sergio]

always fun !

[yavendi]

The song is ¨You're the cream in my coffe¨ ,De sylva ,Lew Brown and R. Henderson. SeeTHE UltimateJAZZ FAKEBOOK Dr. Herb Wong - Hal leonard Co. Page 443

[marjoleindesmet]

who composed the music ????,

I need to know !

does anybody knows ????

pleas tell me soon , i need to know this for school !!!!!! x

[23brookside]

Ray Henderson wrote the music, Brown and DeSylva were the lyricists. Henderson turned out great melodies like a machine in the late 1920s, including Keep Your Sunny Side Up Varsity Drag, & Button Up Your Overcoat The mother of the great George Gershwin, impressed with Mr. Henderson's ability, asked her son, "George, why can't you write music like Ray Henderson?"

Henderson continued to write music into the 1940s, including one for Shirley Temple entitled "Animal Crackers in My Soup."

[gatxzaft]

oh wow, the casual warmth of this video is extremely inspirational, thanks! ~\`3`\~

[orlutaid]

magnific !

[kfreasstudio]

I'm happy to report that there is such a club in Los Angeles. It's called Maxwell DeMille's Cicada Club and it's every bit like you saw in this video. People come to the club in evening attire, most in 1920's vintage. The experience is partylike and absolutely surreal: they really do roll back the clock to 1920.

[78timothy]

Sounds like Vince Giordano's Nighthawks as the dubbed in music.

[vulsinias]

Bravo! magnífico... y gracias!

[blackpoolbarmpot]

Sadly the orginal 'Cafe de Paris' was destroyed by a direct hit from a WWII Bomb. It is nice to see a resurrection of this most famous of Night & Day Clubs. Hopefully, the 'Luftwaffe' will leave this one alone !!!!

[whizbang47]

(Your 'more info' button doesn't work.)

[uwi2]

Mein Gott!

[kspm01]

What a fabulous clip!

[Bigband78]

Hi Moonlover+GiGi

[cajo320]

Applaud when people knew how to dance and how to dress!!

[beefnotfish]

@cajo320 And were civil and had manners and respect....I could go on and on.. Definitely a better time then!

[ginnykaren]

How wonderful this was. Oh to have been able to live in those days when people really danced!

5***** and a favorite!

[genia106]

Thank you for this great clip. What a Fabulous setting that Cafe de Paris!

[logwhitley]

Thats not the 1920's thats last week down my local club

[chrisconil]

that's what they did before TV, golden age thanks

[brwhizz]

These clubs were only ever for the wealthy. Hign society still exists.

[buckenos]

Thank you for this wonderful Video clip of Cafe de Paris.

[ADRIAANA1]

jajaj THE MUSIC

[astralagosto]

Hi Aaron1912,

Thank you for the beautiful video of Cafe de Paris from the film Picadilly, directed by the brilliant director E. A. Dupont.

I agree with the comments here that I wish clubs were more like in this clip of the

1920s instead of the trashy, hip-hop obsessed places they are nowadays. I wish that clubs were turned into the dance halls of the past so sophisticated people could go dance and listen to music of the 20s thru 60s instead of hip-hop, rap, etc.

[NoLimitOnImagination]

I think pletny of historic dance clubs should be opened too :) I would also like discos, as I've never been able to experience being in one :P

I wish the nightclubs of the early 80s could return. Its the point where it was the most modern without being trashy or revolved around drugs (raves are horrible and too common these days)

[magnospeti]

"You are the cream in my coffee"....That's how I imagined the dance of the old times!!!My grandma she had on wedding's photo in 1929 the same hair as the women of the film.Great clip,unique film.Thanks for upload :-) :-)

[MusicalFeelings]

Tops!! Thank you!

[kikddabottle]

it's not as nice now as it used to be but it did get bombed...

[priapus56]

This is from a fabulous silent film called Piccadilly...

[RockyHorror37]

*just comparing this to the dancefloors in the clubs nowadays...

[carval75]

It's the foxtrot

[tawnteens]

what dance was that?

[CaptainJackSparoe]

Im thinking the Waltz

[violetboy86]

1:20 thats me

[FG94]

wat good times.

[TrancetasticWilza]

I'm sure i just saw Bruce Forsyth! Nice to see you, to see you.....

[Dreambro1]

if u watch 20s clips,,even thru the 40s are very risque'.. lots of sexual energy for their times lol.. notice the body movements lol

[nofancypants]

God, I wish I lived in the 1920s...such a classy era...I'm fed up with clubbing nowadays, all the same music and its just infested with drunkards wanting sex. I'd much prefer to get all dolled up and wear a pretty dress and go out to a place like this for dancing and good conversation over perhaps a little wine!!

[serapidus]

I'm also a 1920 afiancado but as a woman could you live with being a 2nd class citizen, being treated as a sex object with no brains who could only bear children in life as a profession?

[MarieEtOlivia]

Women have fought for their rights for centuries, just so that they could ignore them nowadays. You say that women were sex-object-house-wives back in the 20s, well open your eyes and look around you now. Women are exactly the same.

[MarieEtOlivia]

continuing: They base themselves on men's desires, the majority of them have no other interests in life but to settle down and have kids with some dumb-idiot-man and be a frumpy doormat housewife, when their not this they degrade themselves by being lapdancers or porn models or dressing up in cheap, sexually appealing clothes because they only want to appeal to men.

Women nowadays beleive that they are free because they have more options to work etc, but mentally, their still in a locked cage

[Corninhas]

Totally agree...I live with that dilema every day...wishing I was bron in another decade!

[sPtReIpNhCaEnSiSe]

omg same

[MarieEtOlivia]

Gobless you, I feel exactly the same. Our society needs more glamour, sophistication, beauty and taste. Society has exploited sensuality so that theres nothing intimate or sensitive about it anymore.

[piplol2468]

well clubs come and go so one day you might see a place open up like this one again

[Drewfan30s]

Great, video and great music! What's the name of theses songs? I love the 1920s!!!

[GearRocks]

I like London and I like the, 20's, this is great :)

[findcoolvids]

That club is very nice. Why don't I see a club like that in the neighborhood?

[toebonian]

One of the songs on this clip is "Your the Cream in my Coffee"

[beulahsue]

Why don't we have classy places like this anymore...where people dressed and it was truly a night out on the town?

[duba3988]

I know it's completely unfair.

[brwhizz]

You can. Just get a lot of money, buy an expensive outfit, and go to Claridges.

[victoriaphibes]

@beulahsue Because of Affirmative Action.

[vulcanswork]

Ma che meraviglia questo clip.

[miffy1950]

I simply love this kind of music!!!! Thank you

[CeltsCam]

Terrific video. That looks like Jack Buchanan in the dance duo.

[projectfarman]

dont you mean tom?

[countrygrl84]

Outstanding!

[dentgt]

could have sworn the prince of wales hrh was there that night!

[dan19651914]

Does anyone know the names of the 2 songs played in this clip?

[mayfairray]

the 2nd one is "You're the Cream in My Coffee"

[dan19651914]

Thank you very much!

[dr37sam]

The other song is "congratulations".I have the recording by "the Light Crust Doughboys of Bob Wills fame. I thought it was a C and W song.

[dan19651914]

Great! I will try and find a recording of this song. I appreciate your help.

[dr37sam]

Sorry. The name of the song is "Congratulate Me" instead of" congratulations.

[Transpontine]

Where was this filmed? I suspect it might be the Cafe de Paris.

[Transpontine]

The Cafe de Paris website confirms that this was the club used for this film - it is still open today, despite being hit by a bomb in 1941 which killed 80 people.

[thisgunforhire05]

Definitely a fan of Gilda Gray. But I thought the most impressive thing about Piccadilly was far and away the incredible camera work.

[twentiesDOLL12213]

Definitely...and Anna Way Wong's acting/Cyril Ritcahrd's dancing. Piccadilly is also so interesting because we get to see Gilda Gray performing like she did in the Follies in her heyday.

[tangospring]

charming

[fraidycat30]

This is a rare, never to be seen again thing - A London nightclub where nobody is being sick, gurning, bottling someone in the face or having sex on the dancefloor. Must be the olden days!

[twentiesDOLL12213]

Now that i've seen the movie, I liked the music you used instead of the score on the DVD.

[bhsisthebest]

Beutiful pictures! I would prefer to have original recordings instead of nowadays reincarnations which are very well done but I hear all of those new instruments, mouthpieces and attitudes...

[sw1q]

love the music darling !

we must get this band for our staff christmas party.

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[sw1q]

it looked like the cafe de paris, but ... it is a bit big for that.

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del-boy.

[albanybeardguy]

Cyril Ritchard and Gilda Grey ("The Shimmy Girl") frpm PICCCADILLY.

[twentiesDOLL12213]

Gray.

[twentiesDOLL12213]

Very cute dance number.