Frederic Apcar

These Parisian-inspired productions offered a colorful variety of acts featuring singers, dancers, magicians, comedians, acrobats, animal trainers and more.

[2] Frederic Apcar was born September 16, 1914, in the French Embassy in Russia (today known as Tiflis, Georgia) of Parisian parents and later raised in Paris, France.

Between the ages of 12 and 16, Apcar tried his hand at several professions, working as a market laborer, coal stoker, bookkeeper, printer's devil, waiter and dock boy.

Together at Bal Tabarin (Paris), Florence Waren and Frederic Apcar became one of the most renowned ballroom dance teams in Europe, occasionally performing with Édith Piaf and Maurice Chevalier.

"[6] After proving wild success with it, Apcar launched "Casino de Paris" in December 1963,[7] in a brand new theater built by Dunes management expressly for the new French spectacular.