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She’s glad to see him, too, but as is so often the case with cabaret chanteuses in quayside bars, she awaits her true love, the father of her young boy.

A series of gorgeous surreal hallucinations include projected video flashbacks, descending carousel horses and black flamenco dancers emerging from shadows and furniture as Quichotte recalled Dulcinea, a nightclub chanteuse with a retro microphone.

And she made a good point: It’s strange to be slurping noodles while a chanteuse sings her heart out.

Ms. Nichols, a statuesque dancer and nightclub chanteuse, had a few acting credits when she was cast in “Star Trek.”

Anderson and Poster were pulling to include a song by the French folk chanteuse Barbara, but Cocker could never land on a song of hers he felt he could properly sing.