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Michel Louvain isn't well known outside of Canada, but in Quebec he's been a major singing star since the late 1950s; Louvain was a pop crooner whose appeal to female fans has been compared to that of Elvis Presley or Frank Sinatra. Louvain was one of the first French-Canadian performers to attract thousands of screaming women who would swoon when he sang to them, and more than fifty years after he released his first record, he's still recording and touring, and the fans who followed him during his first burst of fame are still loyal. Filmmaker Claude Demers profiles the veteran singer as well as a few of his biggest admirers in the documentary Les Dames en Bleu (aka Ladies In Blue). The film offers a look at Louvain on and off stage as he talks about his many years in show business, but Demers puts the greater focus on the women who come to his concerts -- many are grandmothers today but still hold a special place in their heart for the singer who captivated them in their youth, and they talk at length about what he and his music has meant to them, and how it has helped them through their lives. Ladies In Blue was an official selection at the 2010 Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival.