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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.
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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.
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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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Gender
Male
Birthday
September 12, 1888
Died
January 1, 1972
Birthplace
Paris, France
Also Known As
Black Tights
1961
Pepe
1960
Just Me
1950
The Man of the Day
1937
Monkey Business
1931
The Smiling Lieutenant
1931
Le Vagabond bien-aimé
1936
Le Vagabond bien-aimé
1936
Monkeys, Go Home!
1967
Personal Column
1939
Love Me Tonight
1932
The Little Cafe
1931
Gigi
1958
Par habitude
1923
Love in the Afternoon
1957
Count Your Blessings
1959
The Love Goddesses
1965
100 Years of Love
1954
In Search of the Castaways
1962
The Big Pond
1930
+ 54 more movies
Tony Awards
1956
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
What's My Line?
1950
The Oscars
1953
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
Cinépanorama
1956
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
La Chance aux chansons
1984
This Is Your Life
1952
Der Sport-Spiegel
1963
ABC Stage 67
1966
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
1957
Système 2
1975
Cadet Rousselle
1971
The Century of Icons
2022
The Sorrow and the Pity
1969
Max Liebman Presents
1954