Maurice Chevalier

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	Acting
Most Rating	8.344
Birthday	1888-09-12
Place of Birth	Paris, France
Also Known As	Maurice Auguste Chevalier,

The Smiling Lieutenant

Love Me Tonight

Can-Can

In Search of the Castaways

One Hour with You

The Merry Widow

Personal Column

Gigi

Love in the Afternoon

The Love Parade

A Breath of Scandal

Pepe

Fanny

Jessica

Playboy of Paris

A Bedtime Story

The Big Pond

Silence Is Golden

I'd Rather Be Rich

With a Smile

Folies Bergère

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

100 Years of Love

Paris Nineteen Hundred

La Valse à la mode

The Beloved Vagabond

Black Tights

The Little Cafe

Count Your Blessings

Break the News

Innocents of Paris

Folies Bergère

Panic Button

That's Entertainment!

Make Me a Star

Paramount on Parade

The Stolen Jools

Monkeys, Go Home!

The Way to Love

My Seven Little Sins

A New Kind of Love

Just Me

The Sorrow and the Pity

A Royal Affair

The Man of the Day

Le Vagabond bien-aimé

Le Vagabond bien-aimé

Schlagerparade

Complicated Women

That's Entertainment, Part II

The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe

Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure

Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol

Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do

The Love Goddesses

The House That Shadows Built

Jim Bougne, boxeur

Monkey Business

Chance at Love

Une soirée mondaine

Par habitude

Bad Boy

L'Affaire de la rue de Lourcine

Gonzague

Galas de la Paramount

Rendez-vous With Maurice Chevalier

Hollywood on Parade No. A-5

Going Hollywood: The '30s

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

L'Âge d'or de la pub

Riviera Dream