Initial plans to augment movie showings with a live burlesque stage show were dropped due to the overwhelming success of the movie screenings. The Latin Quarter Nightclub closed in 1969 after its chorus girls went on strike its 15,000-square-foot upstairs room subsequently reopened as Cine Lido, an art-house movie theater that specialized in soft-core porn, beginning with 'Camille 2000,' from director Radley Metzger. Attendance declined as the club was no longer considered a place to be seen by the young, rich and beautiful. Lou Walters retired in the 1950s, and for the next decade the Latin Quarter Nightclub gradually relied less and less on big-name musical talent and more on showgirls and chorus lines.