Maurice Chevalier
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1888-09-12
Deathday 1972-01-01 (83 years old)
Place of Birth Paris, France
Also Known As Maurice Auguste Chevalier
Maurice Chevalier
Biography
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.
Known For
Actor
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Entertainer (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
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as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
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as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Guest
as Father Sylvain
as Self
as Self (segment "Les interviews-vérités") (uncredited)
as Philip Dulaine
as Phillippe
as Self
as Self
as Jacques Paganel
as Father Antonio
as Self - Host
as Self
as Himself / Narrator
as Panisse
as Maurice Chevalier
as Prince Philip
as Paul Barriere
as Duc de St. Cloud
as Honoré Lachaille
as Claude Chavasse
as Maurice Chevalier
as Self
as Self - Recipient
as Self
as Comte André de Courvallon
as Massimo (segment "Amore 1954")
as himself
as Self
as Self
as Maurice Vallier dit 'Ma Pomme'
as Maurice Chevalier
as Self - Mystery Guest
as The King
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Émile Clément
as Robert Fleury
as François Verrier
as Alfred Boulard
as Victor Larnois
as Gaston de Nerac 'Paragot'
as Caston de Nerac
as Gaston de Nerac
as Eugene Charlier / Baron Cassini
as Eugene Charlier / Baron Fernand Cassini
as Count Danilo
as François
as Monsieur Rene
as Self
as Maurice 'Baron' Courtelin
as Maurice Chevalier (uncredited)
as Dr. Andre Bertier
as Himself (voice)
as Lt. Nikolaus 'Niki' von Preyn
as (archive footage)
as Maurice Chevalier
as Albert Lorifian
as Albert Loriflan
as Pierre Mirande
as Apache
as Count Alfred Renard
as Maurice Marney
as Maurice
as Maurice
as Maurice
as Louis-Philippe Massoubre
as Gonzague / Maurice
as Momo
Sound
as Songs