Maurice Chevalier
Nacimiento : 1888-09-12, Paris, France
Muerte : 1972-01-01
Historia
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.
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Self - Entertainer (archive footage)
French artist Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972), a legend of stage and screen, was an accomplished singer, actor and entertainer, who embodied the charm of his native Paris throughout a decades-long career that brought him fame in Europe and America and left for show business history a vast repertoire of masterful classic songs and captivating film performances.
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This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on Les Parapluies de Cherbourg or Les Demoiselles De Rochefort with the famous director Jacques Demy.
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A retrospective of Chita Rivera's film, television and stage career, including interviews with Dick Van Dyke, Ben Vereen, Carol Lawrence and others. Originally aired as Episode 2 of Season 43 of the PBS series Great Performances.
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A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1930 and July 1934, before the Hollywood Production Code —the infamous Hays Code— was enforced.
FBI agent #3
Ray (Robert Patrick) es un desafortunado empleado de una tienda de vídeos que va tirando y esperando que algo mejor le caiga del cielo. Ray comienza un viaje para evadirse de sus problemas. En su recorrido recoge a una atractiva autoestopista llamada Harley (Jennifer Esposito), de la que Ray queda rápidamente prendado. Sin embargo, su vida cambia cuando Harley le revela que ha robado dos millones de dólares y necesita a alguien que le ayude a sacarlos clandestinamente del país. Por desgracia, Ray se mete en el asunto antes de que intervenga el FBI y comienza a sospechar que Harley no es quien parece.
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Biographical portrait of one of Broadway's most brilliant songwriters. Told through the use of archival material and interviews with the rich and famous that knew him, this portrait concentrates on his career and his public life events.
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Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
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Segunda parte de "Érase una vez en Hollywood". A diferencia del primer documental, sólo hay dos narradores: Gene Kelly y Fred Astaire. Incluye escenas de comedias y dramas en los que intervienen los hermanos Marx, Laurel y Hardy o Katharine Hepburn.
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La Metro Goldwyn Mayer celebró su 50º aniversario haciendo una recopilación de sus mejores clásicos musicales y entrevistando a sus protagonistas.
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Aclamadísimo documental sobre el colaboracionismo francés con las tropas nazis durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Desde 1940 hasta 1944, el Gobierno de Vichy colaboró con los alemanes en la instauración de un régimen que gobernó la Francia ocupada en total sintonía y bajo la influencia de Berlín. Vichy combatió incluso a la propia resistencia francesa, compatriotas que luchaban contra el ejército invasor, lo que le supuso el golpe definitivo para la humillación y vergüenza por parte de los aliados y los propios franceses durante y una vez acabada la guerra. En este documental Marcel Ophüls mezcla imágenes de archivo de la época con entrevistas actuales (en 1969) a oficiales alemanes y resistentes franceses de aquellos años.
Father Sylvain
Un joven estadounidense llega a un pueblo francés para hacerse cargo de una herencia: una granja con un olivar que piensa explotar. Dada la escasez de mano de obra para recoger la aceituna, ordena traer a cuatro chimpancés que adiestraba en las Fuerzas Armadas para que le ayuden en las faenas agrícolas.
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Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood.
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Este perspicaz documental presenta algunas de las actrices más importantes y bellas que adornan la pantalla grande. Muestra cómo la industria del cine cambió su descripción de la representación del sexo y las actrices del sexo desde la era del cine mudo hasta el presente. Las escenas clásicas se muestran desde la película muda, True Heart Susie, protagonizada por Lillian Gish, hasta Love Me Tonight (1932), mezcla de sexo y sofisticación, protagonizada por Jeanette MacDonald (antes de Nelson Eddy) y Elizabeth Taylor en A Place in the Sun (1951), además de mucho, mucho más.
Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love.
Philip Dulaine
An updated remake of It Started With Eve (1941). A young heiress is summoned to the bedside of her dying grandfather. The man's last wish is to meet her fiance, but problems arise when the fiance is delayed and a young chemical engineer is persuaded to take his place. When the grandfather suddenly (and secretly) recovers, he uses the situation to his advantage - playing matchmaker in an attempt to ensure his granddaughter's happiness.
Phillippe
Un hombre de negocios planea resolver sus problemas fiscales financiando una versión cinematográfica de "Romeo y Julieta". Contrata al director Akim Tamiroff y a los actores Maurice Chevalier y Jayne Mansfield. La película se presenta al Festival de Cine de Venecia y gana el León de Oro.
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La industria de la moda y Paris son el escenario de una comedia en torno a la impresión, equivocada, de que Samantha Blake (Joanne Woodward) es una prostituta de lujo a la que tiene que entrevistar Steve Sherman (Paul Newman), un periodista que busca información de ese mundillo.
Jacques Paganel
Mary y Robert, hijos del capitán Grant, reciben un día la visita del profesor Panagel, que ha encontrado en una botella un mensaje del capitán. Pronto organizarán una expedición para intentar rescatar a su padre. Los jóvenes se verán envueltos en una aventura llena de situaciones peligrosas en la que tendrán que enfrentarse a crueles indígenas, traficantes de armas e inclemencias de la naturaleza, entre otros peligros.
Father Antonio
La vida transcurre tranquilamente en Forza Drago, un pequeño pueblo de la costa siciliana, hasta que aparece Jessica (Angie Dickison), la nueva comadrona. De dulce sonrisa y suaves curvas, la joven deja fascinados a todos los hombres del lugar, razón por la cual las mujeres urdirán un plan para lograr que Jessica abandone el pueblo.
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Escenas en vivo de París y un narrador que da continuidad a las escenas integran cuatro coreografías dramáticas, de las cuales es autor Roland Petit.
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A musical special celebrating the fruitful collaboration of Broadway lyricist/librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe. Stars from the current Broadway hit "Camelot" and from past triumphs such as "My Fair Lady," and the film "Gigi" perform the romantic, sophisticated songs of Lerner and Loewe.
Panisse
Fanny (Leslie Caron), una atractiva muchacha, es abandonada por Marius, un joven marinero deseoso de conocer mundo que ignora que ella está embarazada. La chica, empujada por las circunstancias, acaba casándose con un hombre cuarenta años mayor que ella. Algunos Años después, Marius regresa. Se basa en la obra homónima de Broadway, que, a su vez, se inspira en la última parte de una trilogía de Marcel Pagnol. Obtuvo 5 nominaciones a los Oscar, incluyendo mejor película, aunque no se llevó ningún premio.
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Pepe, el mozo de cuadras de un rancho mexicano, está muy encariñado con uno de los caballos, pero su jefe se lo vende a un director de cine americano que piensa utilizarlo en su próxima película. Entonces Pepe decide buscar trabajo en Hollywood para estar cerca del caballo. Film con numerosos cameos de grandes estrellas como Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Jack Lemmon, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Janet Leigh, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis y Dean Martin, entre otros.
Prince Philip
Viena, 1907. A pesar de haber sido desterrada, por sus indiscreciones, de la mansión familiar, una bella princesa austriaca (Sophia Loren) rechaza los proyectos de su madre que pretende casarla con un príncipe. Ella ha puesto sus ojos en un atractivo ingeniero americano (John Gavin) que está de visita y que cuenta con la aprobación de su padre (Maurice Chevalier).
Songs
París, 1896. Aunque el descocado Can-Can ha sido prohibido, en el café de una encantadora mujer (MacLaine) se sigue bailando para deleite de sus clientes. Y puede hacerlo impunemente porque su astuto abogado (Sinatra) tiene a un juez corrupto (Chevalier) entre la espada y la pared. Pero el lucrativo negocio se va al garete, con la llegada de un nuevo juez (Jourdan), que decide prohibir definitivamente ese baile tan inmoral.
Paul Barriere
París, 1896. Aunque el descocado Can-Can ha sido prohibido, en el café de una encantadora mujer (MacLaine) se sigue bailando para deleite de sus clientes. Y puede hacerlo impunemente porque su astuto abogado (Sinatra) tiene a un juez corrupto (Chevalier) entre la espada y la pared. Pero el lucrativo negocio se va al garete, con la llegada de un nuevo juez (Jourdan), que decide prohibir definitivamente ese baile tan inmoral.
Duc de St. Cloud
Englishwoman Grace Allingham marries Frenchman Charles Edouard de Valhubert, but their marriage quickly becomes unusual. Because Charles cheats on her and lives away from his family out of professional obligation to his government, Grace ends up raising the couple's son, Sigismond, on her own. Grace and Charles are finally reunited after nearly a decade apart, and, while they seem headed for a permanent split, there's still a spark between them.
Honoré Lachaille
París, 1900. Gaston es un joven millonario que se aburre, a pesar de ser el soltero más perseguido de toda la ciudad. Gigi es casi una niña, no tiene todavía edad para bailes y amoríos. Pero Gaston es amigo de su familia y la visita con frecuencia. La abuela de Gigi sueña con una boda entre Gastón y su nieta. Pero los planes de Gaston con respecto a Gigi no tienen nada que ver con el matrimonio.
Claude Chavasse
La inocente Ariane Chavasse (Audrey Hepburn) es seducida por un playboy millonario norteamericano llamado Frank Flannagan (Gary Cooper). Pero éste ignora que el padre de la chica es el detective privado Claude Chavasse (Chevalier).
Comte André de Courvallon
Massimo (segment "Amore 1954")
Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.
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Maurice Vallier dit 'Ma Pomme'
Maurice Vallier, apodado "Ma Pomme" es un hombre alegro muy consciente de que el dinero no da la felicidad y de todas las cosas quiere la libertad
The King
Mme Beaudrier, the wife of a Parliamentary Senator, hurls a pastry at visiting King Joan IV of Cerdagne, sparking off a series of farcical events involving all levels of the government and their mistresses.
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Nicole Védrèss' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are Enrico Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt, and Maurice Chevalier.
Emile Clément
Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting a tour through France. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his younger friend Jacques come back from military service and after complaining his misfortune with women, follows Emile's advice in starting affairs with women and he meets Lucette.
Robert Fleury
To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the latest missing person.
François Verrier
Two small-time song-and-dance men come up with what they believe is a surefire publicity stunt, guaranteed to keep their names in the public eye--one of them will "disappear" in what looks like a murder, and the other will be convicted of the crime. Then the "dead man" will suddenly show up at his partner's murder trial. Unfortunately, things don't quite go as planned. For one thing, no one seems to much care that the "dead man" is missing, and for another thing he's mistaken for the leader of a Balkan revolutionary group and is kidnapped by the other side.
Alfred Boulard
Alfred Boulard, a good-natured electrician, gives his blood to save Mona Thalia, a great theater actress. Mona Thalia survives and Boulard becomes the man of the hour. Grateful to him, Mona helps Alfred to become a singing star. But his fame will be short-lived.
Victor Larnois
A tramp learns that even honesty won't help him overcome his struggles to prosper. After a man tells him that he needs to smile in order to succeed, he turns his attitude around and he becomes successful.
Gaston de Nerac 'Paragot'
Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!
Gaston de Nerac
Gaston, an artist in love with an upper class English girl, accepts to stay away from her when a wealthy rival offers to pay her father's heavy debt. Broken-hearted, he leaves for France with his young servant. They join a young girl as popular musicians and tour the countryside in their way to Paris, where his former love reappears.
Caston de Nerac
Gaston, an artist in love with an upper class English girl, accepts to stay away from her when a wealthy rival offers to pay her father's heavy debt. Broken-hearted, he leaves for France with his young servant. They join a young girl as popular musicians and tour the countryside in their way to Paris, where his former love reappears.
Eugene Charlier / Baron Cassini
Alternate-language French version of Folies Bergère de Paris (1935).
Eugene Charlier / Baron Fernand Cassini
An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.
Count Danilo
Sonia es una viuda, inmensamente rica, de Marshovia, pequeño país centro europeo del que controla la mitad de la riqueza. El país depende de que ella gaste su dinero en él, así que, cuando se traslada a París porque no logra encontrar marido, el rey envía al Conde Danilo a cortejarla y traerla de vuelta. Si no lo consigue, se le formará consejo de guerra.
François
Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city. While working the streets, Francois meets Madeleine, who works at a circus.
Monsieur Rene
Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.
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Stars Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier and Ken Maynard.
Maurice 'Baron' Courtelin
Encantador y romántico musical que marcó el paso de muchos de los posteriores. Un sastre de París y una princesa se enamoran en esta obra maestra con el gran Maurice Chevalier.
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A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
Dr. Andre Bertier
El doctor André Bertier y Colette, su esposa, viven felices hasta que Mitzi Olivier, una coqueta amiga del colegio de aquélla, les hace una visita. Mediante intrigas, Mitzi consigue quedarse a solas con André, fingiéndose enferma, e intenta seducirle, pero el marido de ella, el profesor Olivier, ha contratado a un detective para que recoja pruebas de las infidelidades de Mitzi.
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Mientras se ocultan de las autoridades en un lujoso trasantlántico, los hermanos Marx se convierten en guardaespaldas de dos gángsteres rivales y, como siempre, provocan situaciones caóticas y delirantes.
Lt. Nikolaus 'Niki' von Preyn
El teniente Nikolaus 'Niki' von Preyn se enamora de la violinista Franzi en Viena, donde se convierten en amantes. Cuando el rey de Flausenthurm llega a la ciudad con su poco agraciada hija Anna, Niki forma parte de la guardia de honor de las calles. Niki sonríe a Franzi, quien se encuentra en la acera de enfrente, le guiña un ojo justo cuando pasa el carruaje, y Anna cree que estos gestos van dirigidos a ella.
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The House That Shadows Built (1931) es un largometraje, de aproximadamente 55 minutos de duración, de Paramount Pictures, hecho para celebrar el vigésimo aniversario de la fundación del estudio en 1912. La película fue una película promocional para expositores y nunca tuvo un teatro teatral habitual. lanzamiento. La película incluye una breve historia de Paramount, entrevistas con varios actores y clips de los próximos proyectos (algunos de los cuales nunca llegaron a buen término). El título proviene de una biografía del fundador de Paramount Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), de William Henry Irwin.
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Cortometraje promocional lleno de estrellas de la época destinado a recaudar fondos para el sanatorio de tuberculosis National Variety Artists, producido en asociación con una compañía de cigarrillos. La trama sigue la investigación del robo de la joyería de Norma Shearer. Laurel & Hardy aparecen brevemente (como lo hace el resto del elenco) como dos detectives.
Albert Lorifian
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris café owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it....
Dutch-language version of Paramount on Parade (1930) produced and released by Paramount Pictures.
Albert Loriflan
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it.
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Spanish-language version of PARAMOUNT ON PARADE (q.v.), with new sequences of interest to Spanish-speaking audiences mixed with original- version sequences.
Pierre Mirande
A singing Frenchman meets an American heiress and gets a job at her father's chewing-gum factory.
Apache
Una serie de números musicales interpretados por estrellas bajo contrato de la Paramount, haciendo cosas que nunca habían hecho en sus películas habituales.
Count Alfred Renard
Por sus deshonrosas aventuras en París, el agregado militar, conde Alfred Renard (Maurice Chevalier), es devuelto a su país de origen Sylvania, justo en los días en que los miembros del Consejo de Estado andan preocupados porque la reina Louise I (Jeanette McDonald) no consigue casarse con ninguno de sus pretendientes... pero al ser llevado ante su presencia a la espera de recibir su castigo, Renard conseguirá seducirla y Sylvania va a tener a un príncipe consorte que ha jurado ante la iglesia ser dócil y obediente.
Maurice Marney
Directed by Richard Wallace.
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Back from an alcohol-fueled evening, two former high school friends wake up and find they may have murdered a female coal-dealer.
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Maurice returns out of habit in the apartment from which he has just moved and turns the lives of the new tenants upside down.
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Louis-Philippe Massoubre
Gonzague / Maurice
Momo
A man and a woman crash a party
In the dwarf kingdom of Lilliput, people were celebrating the engagement of the Princess Piccolina. Meanwhile, the rumor eventually reached the ears of Gigas the Tall and he had his men bring him the princess. General Tom Thumb gathered his army and attacked the palace of the Giants.
Maurice Chevalier simply can't stop dancing.
