Maurice Chevalier
1888-09-12 ( 136 years old ) in Paris, France

Maurice Auguste Chevalier (September 12, 1888 – January 1, 1972) was a French actor, cabaret singer and entertainer. He is perhaps best known for his signature songs, including "Livin' In The Sunlight", "Valentine", "Louise", "Mimi", and "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" and for his films, including The Love Parade, The Big Pond, The Smiling Lieutenant, One Hour with You and Love Me Tonight. His trademark attire was a boater hat and tuxedo. Chevalier was born in Paris. He made his name as a star of musical comedy, appearing in public as a singer and dancer at an early age before working in menial jobs as a teenager. In 1909, he became the partner of the biggest female star in France at the time, Fréhel. Although their relationship was brief, she secured him his first major engagement, as a mimic and a singer in l'Alcazar in Marseille, for which he received critical acclaim by French theatre critics. In 1917, he discovered jazz and ragtime and went to London, where he found new success at the Palace Theatre. After this, he toured the United States, where he met the American composers George Gershwin and Irving Berlin and brought the operetta Dédé to Broadway in 1922. He developed an interest in acting and had success in Dédé. When talkies arrived, he went to Hollywood in 1928, where he played his first American role in Innocents of Paris. In 1930, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his roles in The Love Parade (1929) and The Big Pond (1930), which secured his first big American hits, "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" and "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight". In 1957, he appeared in Love in the Afternoon, which was his first Hollywood film in more than 20 years. In 1958, he starred with Leslie Caron and Louis Jourdan in Gigi. In the early 1960s, he made eight films, including Can-Can in 1960 and Fanny the following year. In 1970, he made his final contribution to the film industry where he sang the title song of the Disney film The Aristocats. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maurice Chevalier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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L'Âge d'or de la pub 2023-06-02
Rendez-vous With Maurice Chevalier 2021-12-19
Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol 2019-06-05
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure 2018-12-25
Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do 2015-11-06
Complicated Women 2003-05-06
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story 1990-07-23
Going Hollywood: The '30s 1984-01-01
That's Entertainment, Part II 1976-05-16
Hooray for Hollywood 1976-01-01
That's Entertainment! 1974-06-21
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli 1973-01-01
Monkeys, Go Home! 1967-02-08
Chance at Love 1964-10-30
I'd Rather Be Rich 1964-08-25
Panic Button 1964-04-10
A New Kind of Love 1963-10-10
In Search of the Castaways 1962-12-01
Jessica 1962-04-19
The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe 1962-02-11
Black Tights 1961-09-07
Fanny 1961-06-28
Pepe 1960-12-21
A Breath of Scandal 1960-03-16
Can-Can 1960-03-09
Count Your Blessings 1959-04-23
Gigi 1958-05-15
Love in the Afternoon 1957-05-29
My Seven Little Sins 1954-11-29
100 Years of Love 1954-02-25
Schlagerparade 1953-11-03
Just Me 1950-11-15
Riviera Dream 1950-01-01
A Royal Affair 1949-12-14
Paris 1900 1948-02-25
Silence Is Golden 1947-05-21
Personal Column 1939-12-05
Break the News 1938-01-02
The Man of the Day 1937-01-02
With a Smile 1936-12-03
The Beloved Vagabond 1936-08-24
Le Vagabond bien-aimé 1936-05-08
Le Vagabond bien-aimé 1936-05-08
Folies Bergère 1935-05-09
Folies Bergère 1935-02-22
The Merry Widow 1934-11-02
The Way to Love 1933-10-20
A Bedtime Story 1933-04-22
Hollywood on Parade No. A-5 1932-12-16
Love Me Tonight 1932-08-18
Make Me a Star 1932-07-01
One Hour with You 1932-03-23
Monkey Business 1931-09-19
The Smiling Lieutenant 1931-08-01
The House That Shadows Built 1931-07-08
The Stolen Jools 1931-04-04
The Little Cafe 1931-01-20
Playboy of Paris 1930-10-18
The Big Pond 1930-05-03
Paramount on Parade 1930-04-22
The Love Parade 1930-01-18
Innocents of Paris 1929-01-02
L'Affaire de la rue de Lourcine 1923-10-23
Par habitude 1923-09-28
Jim Bougne, boxeur 1923-06-15
Bad Boy 1923-02-09
Gonzague 1923-01-23
Une soirée mondaine 1917-02-02
The Dwarf Kingdom of Lilliput Versus Gigas the Tall, Prince of the Giants 1914-10-18
La Valse à la mode 1908-09-25

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