Maurice Chevalier
Acting
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.
The Smiling Lieutenant
as Lt. Nikolaus 'Niki' von Preyn
Age 42 (now 83)
Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur
as Self (archive footage)
Age 133 (now 83)
Rendez-vous With Maurice Chevalier
as Self - Entertainer (archive footage)
Age 133 (now 83)
Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol
as Self (archive footage)
Age 130 (now 83)
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
as Self (archive footage)
Age 130 (now 83)
Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do
as Self (archive footage)
Age 127 (now 83)
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
as Self (archive footage)
Age 101 (now 83)
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
as Self (archive footage)
Age 88 (now 83)
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
Age 87 (now 83)
That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 85 (now 83)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
as Self (archive footage)
Age 84 (now 83)
Chance at Love
as Self (segment "Les interviews-vérités") (uncredited)
Age 76 (now 83)
The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe
as Self - Host
Age 73 (now 83)
Folies Bergère de Paris
as Eugene Charlier / Baron Fernand Cassini
Age 46 (now 83)
The Smiling Lieutenant
as Lt. Nikolaus 'Niki' von Preyn
Age 42 (now 83)
The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
Age 42 (now 83)
The Dwarf Kingdom of Lilliput Versus Gigas the Tall, Prince of the Giants
La Chance aux chansons
as Self (archive footage)
Age 95 (now 83)
The Sorrow and the Pity
as Self (archive footage)
Age 81 (now 83)
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
as Maurice Chevalier
Age 69 (now 83)
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Maurice Auguste Chevalier
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