Maurice Chevalier
Nascimento : 1888-09-12, Paris, France
Morte : 1972-01-01
História
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
A woman is released from prison and heads home to help outwit a local mob boss and pull off the scam of a lifetime.
Archive Footage
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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É a sequência de Era Uma Vez em Hollywood, de 1974. A produção mostra uma retrospectiva dos principais filmes produzidos pela MGM dentre os períodos de 1930 a 1950. Neste segundo documentário, arquivistas destacaram números musicais pouco conhecidos dos arquivos da MGM, e também tributos a alguns dos times de comédia mais famosos da MGM, como os Irmãos Marx, e Laurel e Hardy, duplas românticas como Spencer Tracy e Katharine Hepburn, e uma montagem de estrelas icônicas como Clark Gable, Mickey Rooney, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, James Stewart, Lana Turner e Greta Garbo. Gene Kelly e Fred Astaire apresentam o filme e Kelly dirigiu as cenas introdutórias, como a volta dele à Paris, na qual foi rodada dois dos filmes mais famosos da MGM "Sinfonia de Paris" e "Gigi".
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Documentário que traça um panorama dos musicais no cinema desde a década de 20 até os anos 50, e traz entrevistas com algumas das estrelas do gênero.
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Himself
De 1940 a 1944 o governo de Vichy, na França, colaborou ativamente com os nazistas que ocupavam o país. Este filme expõem a história que muitos franceses preferiam continuar ignorando.
A partir de Clermont-Ferrand, o filme amplia sua factuais sobre todo o Auvergne, mas também inclui depoimentos de personalidades que desempenharam um papel importante durante a guerra (soldados, estadistas, testemunhas-chave) ou que participaram ativamente nele, não necessariamente em Clermont-Ferrand ou mesmo em Auvergne. O filme é composto por entrevistas e imagens dos noticiários da época. Estes, são apresentados sem comentários, foram realizadas sob o controle da propaganda do governo de Vichy, exceto para o penúltimo deles: entrevista com Maurice Chevalier, falando em Inglês, para o público americano , referindo-se às acusações contra ele de colaboração com os alemães.
Father Sylvain
Henry Dussard, um jovem americano, herda uma pitoresca mas negligenciada fazenda de oliveiras no sul da França e está determinado a torná-la operacional novamente, apesar dos conselhos do padre local e de uma bonita aldeã. Desesperado por trabalhadores, o inventivo Dussard recorre à equipe de apanhadores de azeitona mais maluca já recrutada - quatro macacos travessos! Como ex-membros de uma equipe espacial da Força Aérea, esses chimpanzés inteligentes assumem rapidamente suas novas responsabilidades - mas provam ter um efeito turbulento sobre os habitantes locais.
Himself
Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood.
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This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie 'True Heart Susie,' starring Lillian Gish, to 'Love Me Tonight' (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy), and to Elizabeth Taylor in 'A Place in the Sun' (1951), plus much , much more.
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
A businessman comes up with a scheme to make money by financing a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" that's destined to fail, thus giving him some major tax breaks.
Self
A down-and-out reporter and a fashion designer fall in love in Paris.
Jacques Paganel
Ninguém pode deter a agitada Mary Grant (HAYLEY MILLS) de viajar pelos quatro cantos do mundo para encontrar seu pai, Capitão Grant - mesmo que tudo o que ela saiba sobre seu paradeiro seja uma mensagem dentro de uma garrafa. Maurice Chevalier junta-se a ela nesta fantástica aventura pelo mundo. Um filme repleto de efeitos especiais, baseado no livro de Julio Verne.
Father Antonio
Quando os homens de uma aldeia siciliana começam a ficar obcecados pela arrebatadora parteira loira Jessica (Angie Dickinson), as mulheres furiosas se revoltam ao se recusarem a fazer sexo com seus maridos. Enquanto o padre local (Maurice Chevalier) tenta encorajar a procriação, Jessica se apaixona por um recluso astuto (Gabriele Ferzetti). Uma adaptação de um romance de Flora Sandstrom, esta charmosa comédia também apresenta Noel-Noel como um veterano casamenteiro.
Himself / Narrator
Lively scenes of Paris, all narrated by Maurice Chevalier, link together four dramatic ballet choreographies by Roland Petit: La Croqueuse de diamants (The Gold Digger), Cyrano de Bergerac, Deuil en 24 heures (A Merry Mourning), and Carmen.
Himself
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
Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers that he is in love with her. He must choose between an exciting life at sea, and a boring life with the woman he loves. And Fanny must choose between keeping the man she loves, and letting him live the life he seems to want.
Maurice Chevalier
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.
Prince Philip
Uma princesa europeia compromete sua coroa quando se apaixona por um milionário americano.
Songs
Montmartre, 1896: o Can-Can, a dança em que as mulheres levantam suas saias, é proibida. Mesmo assim, Simone apresenta o Can-Can todos os dias em sua casa noturna. Suas funcionárias usam os encantos femininos para convencer os agentes da lei a fazerem vistas grossas – e até mesmo a assistirem aos shows.
Paul Barriere
Montmartre, 1896: o Can-Can, a dança em que as mulheres levantam suas saias, é proibida. Mesmo assim, Simone apresenta o Can-Can todos os dias em sua casa noturna. Suas funcionárias usam os encantos femininos para convencer os agentes da lei a fazerem vistas grossas – e até mesmo a assistirem aos shows.
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
Gaston Lachaille é o solteiro mais cobiçado de Paris, sendo rico, bonito, bem vestido e com vários criados ao seu dispor. Gigi é uma jovem irrequieta, que recebe aulas de sua tia Alicia para se tornar uma dama da aristocracia. Eles são amigos, até que Gaston começa a se sentir atraído por Gigi.
Claude Chavasse
Claude Chavasse é um detetive particular contratado para investigar as atividades do conquistador Frank Flannagan. Ariane Chavasse, a filha do detetive, acaba se apaixonando pelo sedutor herói.
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, nicknamed "Ma Pomme"(which means "myself" in slang), is a cheerful man, well aware that money does not make happiness and who, of all things, prices freedom. Which is why he has become a tramp and he has never regretted his choice of life. Things go smoothly until the day he inherits a huge amount of money. He first refuses it but changes his mind when he realizes that thanks to the inheritance he can help others. Even more enticing is the fact that he must share the big money with a charming air hostess. However once he deems he has done enough good he gives up the money left and resumes his old lifestyle singing along "Ma pomme c'est moi, j'suis plus heureux qu'un roi..."
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
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
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
Alfaiate parisiense se encontra fingindo ser um barão para ganhar um dinheiro de um aristocrata, somente para acabar se apaixonando por um jovem e despreocupada princesa.
Himself (uncredited)
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
Os formosos Andre e Colette Bertier são um casal extremamente feliz. Quando Colette apresenta seu marido para a sua melhor amiga Mitzi, que flerta com todos os homens que vê pela frente, Andre tenta ao máximo resistir às investidas da amiga. Mas ela é bastante insistente, além de ser muito bonita, que faz com que ele invariavelmente traia sua mulher. O marido de Mitzi quer se divorciar, e a está mantendo sob vigilância constante. Andre acaba sendo descoberto, e tem de se confessar para Colette. Mal sabe ele, que sua belíssima mulher também tem mantido alguns segredos para si...
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Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.
Lt. Nikolaus 'Niki' von Preyn
A simple wink, intended by Austrian palace guard Lt. Nikolaus von Preyn for girlfriend, Franzi, is accidentally intercepted -- and misread -- by the visiting Princess Anna. As a result, the soldier has no choice but to marry the royal lady and move with her to the neighboring kingdom of Flausenthurm. His girlfriend follows to continue the romance and, subversively, give Princess Anna tips on how to keep her husband satisfied.
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The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912. It was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release and includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which never came to fruition). The title comes from a biography of Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), by William Henry Irwin.
Maurice Chevalier
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
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
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
Count Alfred Renard
A história da Rainha Louise da Sylvania (Jeanette MacDonald) e o seu novo marido, Conde Alfred (Maurice Chevalier). Embora o Conde Alfred tenha prometido, na cerimónia de casamento, ser um marido dócil, ele depressa se arrepende da sua decisão a partir do momento em que as suas ordens não são obedecidas e se vai tornando enfastiado com a vida que leva. Ameaçando partir para Paris, ele só é detido pela Rainha Louise quando ela lhe oferece o equivalente aos poderes de um rei...
Maurice Marney
Directed by Richard Wallace.
Maurice
Back from an alcohol-fueled evening, two former high school friends wake up and find they may have murdered a female coal-dealer.
Maurice
Maurice returns out of habit in the apartment from which he has just moved and turns the lives of the new tenants upside down.
Maurice
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.
