Maurice Chevalier

Acting

Born Sep 12, 1888

From Paris, France

Died Jan 01, 1972

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.

Maurice Chevalier

Known For

Gigi

Pepe

Fanny

Jessica

Can-Can

Love in the Afternoon

That's Entertainment, Part II

That's Entertainment!

L'Âge d'or de la pub

A New Kind of Love

Filmography — Acting

Gigi

Pepe

Fanny

Jessica

Can-Can

Love in the Afternoon

That's Entertainment, Part II

That's Entertainment!

L'Âge d'or de la pub

A New Kind of Love

Monkey Business

Monkeys, Go Home!

Make Me a Star

Going Hollywood: The '30s

A Breath of Scandal

One Hour with You

The Merry Widow

Complicated Women

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story

In Search of the Castaways

The Smiling Lieutenant

The Way to Love

I'd Rather Be Rich

Just Me

100 Years of Love

The House That Shadows Built

Black Tights

Personal Column

Paramount on Parade

Love Me Tonight

The Stolen Jools

Folies Bergère de Paris

Panic Button

My Seven Little Sins

The Big Pond

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

The Love Parade

Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure

Hooray for Hollywood

Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do

Silence Is Golden

Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol

Count Your Blessings

Riviera Dream

Paris 1900

Chance at Love

The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe

The Little Cafe

A Royal Affair

Playboy of Paris

Innocents of Paris

Folies Bergère

Sammy Davis Jr. in Europa

Le Vagabond bien-aimé

The Man of the Day

The Beloved Vagabond

A Bedtime Story

Rendez-vous With Maurice Chevalier

Bob Hope's World of Comedy

Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur

Break the News

Show - Charme - Chansons

With a Smile

The Dwarf Kingdom of Lilliput Versus Gigas the Tall, Prince of the Giants

Hollywood on Parade No. A-5

Schlagerparade

L'Affaire de la rue de Lourcine