Maurice Chevalier
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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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Tony Awards
Self - Recipient
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Show de Ed Sullivan
Self
The Oscars
Self
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Startime
Self
Cinépanorama
Self
This Is Your Life
Self
La Chance aux chansons
Self (archive footage)
ABC Stage 67
Self
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
Maurice Chevalier
Le Chagrin et la Pitié
Self (archive footage)
Cadet Rousselle
Self
Gigi
Honoré Lachaille
Folies Bergère de Paris
Eugene Charlier / Baron Fernand Cassini
That's Entertainment!
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Can-Can
Paul Barriere
In Search of the Castaways
Jacques Paganel
Pièges
Robert Fleury
Pepe
Maurice Chevalier
Le Siècle des icônes
Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)
Romance al Atardecer
Claude Chavasse
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Self (archive footage)
Una Hora Contigo
Dr. Andre Bertier
Jessica
Father Antonio
Monkey Business
Himself (voice)