Maurice Chevalier

Maurice Chevalier

Born: September 12, 1888
Died: January 1, 1972
in Paris, France
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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Movies for Maurice Chevalier...

L'Âge d'or de la pub
Title: L'Âge d'or de la pub
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 2, 2023
Type: Movie
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Title: Le Siècle des icônes
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 27, 2022
Type: TV
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Rendez-vous With Maurice Chevalier
Title: Rendez-vous With Maurice Chevalier
Character: Self - Entertainer (archive footage)
Released: December 19, 2021
Type: Movie
French artist Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972), a legend of stage and screen, was an accomplished singer, actor and entertainer, who embodied the charm of his native Paris throughout a decades-long career that brought him fame in Europe and America and left for show business history a vast repertoire of masterful classic songs and captivating film performances.
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Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol
Title: Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 5, 2019
Type: Movie
The works of Marcel Pagnol are a veritable monument of French cultural heritage. Based on previously unseen archive material, film extracts, novels, plays, interviews and letters, the film pays tribute to the major author and popular filmmaker, who made his life a work and his work a life's project.
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Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
Title: Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 25, 2018
Type: Movie
This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on Les Parapluies de Cherbourg or Les Demoiselles De Rochefort with the famous director Jacques Demy.
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Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do
Title: Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 6, 2015
Type: Movie
A retrospective of Chita Rivera's film, television and stage career, including interviews with Dick Van Dyke, Ben Vereen, Carol Lawrence and others. Originally aired as Episode 2 of Season 43 of the PBS series Great Performances.
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Complicated Women
Title: Complicated Women
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 6, 2003
Type: Movie
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.
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You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Title: You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 23, 1990
Type: Movie
Biographical portrait of one of Broadway's most brilliant songwriters. Told through the use of archival material and interviews with the rich and famous that knew him, this portrait concentrates on his career and his public life events.
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Title: La Chance aux chansons
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 26, 1984
Type: TV
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Title: Going Hollywood: The '30s
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Title: That's Entertainment, Part II
Character: (archive footage)
Released: May 16, 1976
Type: Movie
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
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Title: Système 2
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 19, 1975
Type: TV
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That's Entertainment!
Title: That's Entertainment!
Character: (archive footage)
Released: June 21, 1974
Type: Movie
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Title: The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
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Title: Cadet Rousselle
Character: Self
Released: November 4, 1971
Type: TV
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The Sorrow and the Pity
Title: The Sorrow and the Pity
Character: Himself
Released: April 14, 1971
Type: Movie
An investigation into the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration between France’s Vichy government and Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1944.
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Title: The Dick Cavett Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 6, 1968
Type: TV
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
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Monkeys, Go Home!
Title: Monkeys, Go Home!
Character: Father Sylvain
Released: February 8, 1967
Type: Movie
Henry Dussard, a young American, inherits a picturesque but badly neglected olive farm in southern France and is determined to make it operational again despite cautionary advice from the local priest and a pretty villager. Desperate for laborers, the inventive Dussard turns to the zaniest crew of olive pickers ever recruited - four mischievous monkeys! As former members of an Air Force space team, these intelligent chimps quickly pick up on their new responsibilities - but prove to have a turbulent effect on the local townspeople.
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Title: ABC Stage 67
Character: Self
Released: September 14, 1966
Type: TV
ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety shows, documentaries, and original musicals. It premiered on American Broadcasting Company on September 14, 1966 with Murray Schisgal's The Love Song of Barney Kempinksi, directed by Stanley Prager and starring Alan Arkin as a man enjoying the sights and sounds of New York City in his last remaining hours of bachelorhood. Arkin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama and the program was nominated as Outstanding Dramatic Program. Future programs included appearances by Petula Clark, Bobby Darin, Sir Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Peter Sellers, David Frost, and Jack Paar. ABC's effort to bring culture to the masses was a noble but unsuccessful experiment. Scheduled first against I Spy on Wednesdays and then The Dean Martin Show on Thursdays, the show consistently received low ratings. Its last production, an adaptation of Jean Cocteau's one-woman play The Human Voice starring Ingrid Bergman, aired on May 4, 1967. "Stage 67" was not actually a part of the primary ABC facilities in Los Angeles. It was produced at the old Monogram Studios backlot that was later sold to KCET.
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The Love Goddesses
Title: The Love Goddesses
Character: (archive footage)
Released: March 3, 1965
Type: Movie
This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie 'True Heart Susie,' starring Lillian Gish, to 'Love Me Tonight' (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy), and to Elizabeth Taylor in 'A Place in the Sun' (1951), plus much , much more.
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Chance at Love
Title: Chance at Love
Released: December 30, 1964
Type: Movie
Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love.
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I'd Rather Be Rich
Title: I'd Rather Be Rich
Character: Philip Dulaine
Released: August 25, 1964
Type: Movie
An updated remake of It Started With Eve (1941). A young heiress is summoned to the bedside of her dying grandfather. The man's last wish is to meet her fiance, but problems arise when the fiance is delayed and a young chemical engineer is persuaded to take his place. When the grandfather suddenly (and secretly) recovers, he uses the situation to his advantage - playing matchmaker in an attempt to ensure his granddaughter's happiness.
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Panic Button
Title: Panic Button
Character: Phillippe
Released: April 10, 1964
Type: Movie
A businessman comes up with a scheme to make money by financing a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" that's destined to fail, thus giving him some major tax breaks.
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A New Kind of Love
Title: A New Kind of Love
Character: Self
Released: October 10, 1963
Type: Movie
A down-and-out reporter and a fashion designer fall in love in Paris.
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Title: Der Sport-Spiegel
Character: Self
Released: April 2, 1963
Type: TV
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In Search of the Castaways
Title: In Search of the Castaways
Character: Jacques Paganel
Released: December 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the children's shipwrecked sea captain father. This Disney film was based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.
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Title: The Merv Griffin Show
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
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Jessica
Title: Jessica
Character: Father Antonio
Released: April 19, 1962
Type: Movie
When the men of a Sicilian village start obsessing over ravishing blonde midwife Jessica, angry females revolt by refusing to have sex with their husbands. As the local priest tries to encourage procreation, Jessica falls for a tricky recluse.
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The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe
Title: The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe
Character: Himself
Released: February 11, 1962
Type: Movie
A musical special celebrating the fruitful collaboration of Broadway lyricist/librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe. Stars from the current Broadway hit "Camelot" and from past triumphs such as "My Fair Lady," and the film "Gigi" perform the romantic, sophisticated songs of Lerner and Loewe.
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Black Tights
Title: Black Tights
Character: Himself / Narrator
Released: September 7, 1961
Type: Movie
Lively scenes of Paris, all narrated by Maurice Chevalier, link together four dramatic ballet choreographies by Roland Petit: La Croqueuse de diamants (The Gold Digger), Cyrano de Bergerac, Deuil en 24 heures (A Merry Mourning), and Carmen.
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Fanny
Title: Fanny
Character: Panisse
Released: June 28, 1961
Type: Movie
Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers that he is in love with her. He must choose between an exciting life at sea, and a boring life with the woman he loves. And Fanny must choose between keeping the man she loves, and letting him live the life he seems to want.
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Pepe
Title: Pepe
Character: Maurice Chevalier
Released: December 21, 1960
Type: Movie
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.
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A Breath of Scandal
Title: A Breath of Scandal
Character: Prince Philip
Released: March 16, 1960
Type: Movie
A European princess jeopardizes her crown when she falls for an American millionaire.
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Can-Can
Title: Can-Can
Character: Paul Barriere
Released: March 9, 1960
Type: Movie
Parisian nightclub owner Simone Pistache is known for her performances of the can-can, which attracts the ire of the self-righteous Judge Philipe Forrestier. He hatches a plot to photograph her in the act but ends up falling for her — much to the chagrin of her boyfriend, lawyer François Durnais.
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Count Your Blessings
Title: Count Your Blessings
Character: Duc de St. Cloud
Released: April 23, 1959
Type: Movie
Englishwoman Grace Allingham marries Frenchman Charles Edouard de Valhubert, but their marriage quickly becomes unusual. Because Charles cheats on her and lives away from his family out of professional obligation to his government, Grace ends up raising the couple's son, Sigismond, on her own. Grace and Charles are finally reunited after nearly a decade apart, and, while they seem headed for a permanent split, there's still a spark between them.
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Title: Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Released: October 6, 1958
Type: TV
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.
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Gigi
Title: Gigi
Character: Honoré Lachaille
Released: May 15, 1958
Type: Movie
A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.
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Title: The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
Character: Maurice Chevalier
Released: November 6, 1957
Type: TV
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour is a collection of thirteen one-hour specials airing occasionally from 1957 to 1960, and originally served as part of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse. Its original network title was The Ford Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the first season, and The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Presents The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the following seasons. It was the successor to the classic comedy, I Love Lucy, and featured the same major cast members. The production schedule avoided the grind of a regular weekly series. Desilu produced the show, which was mostly filmed at their Los Angeles studios with occasional on-location shoots at Lake Arrowhead, Las Vegas and Sun Valley, Idaho. CBS reran the show under the "Lucy-Desi" title during the summers of 1962-1967, after which it went into syndication.
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Love in the Afternoon
Title: Love in the Afternoon
Character: Claude Chavasse
Released: May 29, 1957
Type: Movie
Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as the worldly mature Frank Flannagan hoping that l’amour will take hold.
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Title: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.
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Title: Tony Awards
Character: Self - Recipient
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: TV
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.
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Title: Cinépanorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1956
Type: TV
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My Seven Little Sins
Title: My Seven Little Sins
Character: Comte André de Courvallon
Released: November 29, 1954
Type: Movie
The Count of Courvallon, whose gallant exploits have made the headlines, has uncoupled and lives in a pleasant estate in the C te. He has a son, Edouard, and a stylish valet, Antonio. This peaceful life is disrupted by a battalion of penniless girls living in a neighboring villa. Luisella has the nerve to introduce herself to André de Courvallon as his daughter, and immediately her comrades follow suit. The supposed father is not fooled, but his son takes it badly, especially as he has fallen in love with Luisella. Fairy tales always have happy endings.
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100 Years of Love
Title: 100 Years of Love
Character: Massimo (segment "Amore 1954")
Released: February 25, 1954
Type: Movie
Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.
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Schlagerparade
Title: Schlagerparade
Character: himself
Released: November 3, 1953
Type: Movie
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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Title: This Is Your Life
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience, including special guest appearances by colleagues, friends and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971-72, while Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The show originated as a radio show on NBC Radio airing from 1948 to 1952.
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Just Me
Title: Just Me
Character: Maurice Vallier dit 'Ma Pomme'
Released: November 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Maurice Vallier, nicknamed "Ma Pomme"(which means "myself" in slang), is a cheerful man, well aware that money does not make happiness and who, of all things, prices freedom. Which is why he has become a tramp and he has never regretted his choice of life. Things go smoothly until the day he inherits a huge amount of money. He first refuses it but changes his mind when he realizes that thanks to the inheritance he can help others. Even more enticing is the fact that he must share the big money with a charming air hostess. However once he deems he has done enough good he gives up the money left and resumes his old lifestyle singing along "Ma pomme c'est moi, j'suis plus heureux qu'un roi..."
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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A Royal Affair
Title: A Royal Affair
Character: The King
Released: December 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Mme Beaudrier, the wife of a Parliamentary Senator, hurls a pastry at visiting King Joan IV of Cerdagne, sparking off a series of farcical events involving all levels of the government and their mistresses.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self - Singer
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Paris Nineteen Hundred
Title: Paris Nineteen Hundred
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Nicole Védrès' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are Enrico Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt, and Maurice Chevalier.
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Silence Is Golden
Title: Silence Is Golden
Character: Emile Clément
Released: May 21, 1947
Type: Movie
Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting a tour through France. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his younger friend Jacques come back from military service and after complaining his misfortune with women, follows Emile's advice in starting affairs with women and he meets Lucette.
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Personal Column
Title: Personal Column
Character: Robert Fleury
Released: December 5, 1939
Type: Movie
To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the latest missing person.
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Break the News
Title: Break the News
Character: François Verrier
Released: January 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Two small-time song-and-dance men come up with what they believe is a surefire publicity stunt, guaranteed to keep their names in the public eye--one of them will "disappear" in what looks like a murder, and the other will be convicted of the crime. Then the "dead man" will suddenly show up at his partner's murder trial. Unfortunately, things don't quite go as planned. For one thing, no one seems to much care that the "dead man" is missing, and for another thing he's mistaken for the leader of a Balkan revolutionary group and is kidnapped by the other side.
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The Man of the Day
Title: The Man of the Day
Character: Alfred Boulard
Released: January 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Alfred Boulard, a good-natured electrician, gives his blood to save Mona Thalia, a great theater actress. Mona Thalia survives and Boulard becomes the man of the hour. Grateful to him, Mona helps Alfred to become a singing star. But his fame will be short-lived.
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With a Smile
Title: With a Smile
Character: Victor Larnois
Released: December 3, 1936
Type: Movie
A tramp learns that even honesty won't help him overcome his struggles to prosper. After a man tells him that he needs to smile in order to succeed, he turns his attitude around and he becomes successful.
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The Beloved Vagabond
Title: The Beloved Vagabond
Character: Gaston de Nerac 'Paragot'
Released: August 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!
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Le Vagabond bien-aimé
Title: Le Vagabond bien-aimé
Character: Gaston de Nerac
Released: May 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Gaston, an artist in love with an upper class English girl, accepts to stay away from her when a wealthy rival offers to pay her father's heavy debt. Broken-hearted, he leaves for France with his young servant. They join a young girl as popular musicians and tour the countryside in their way to Paris, where his former love reappears.
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Le Vagabond bien-aimé
Title: Le Vagabond bien-aimé
Character: Caston de Nerac
Released: May 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Gaston, an artist in love with an upper class English girl, accepts to stay away from her when a wealthy rival offers to pay her father's heavy debt. Broken-hearted, he leaves for France with his young servant. They join a young girl as popular musicians and tour the countryside in their way to Paris, where his former love reappears.
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Folies Bergère
Title: Folies Bergère
Character: Eugene Charlier / Baron Cassini
Released: May 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Alternate-language French version of Folies Bergère de Paris (1935).
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Folies Bergère
Title: Folies Bergère
Character: Eugene Charlier / Baron Fernand Cassini
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.
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The Merry Widow
Title: The Merry Widow
Character: Count Danilo
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
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The Way to Love
Title: The Way to Love
Character: François
Released: October 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city. While working the streets, Francois meets Madeleine, who works at a circus.
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A Bedtime Story
Title: A Bedtime Story
Character: Monsieur Rene
Released: April 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-5
Title: Hollywood on Parade No. A-5
Character: Self
Released: December 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Stars Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier and Ken Maynard.
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Love Me Tonight
Title: Love Me Tonight
Character: Maurice 'Baron' Courtelin
Released: August 18, 1932
Type: Movie
A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.
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Make Me a Star
Title: Make Me a Star
Character: Maurice Chevalier (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
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One Hour with You
Title: One Hour with You
Character: Dr. Andre Bertier
Released: March 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
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Monkey Business
Title: Monkey Business
Character: Himself (voice)
Released: September 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.
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The Smiling Lieutenant
Title: The Smiling Lieutenant
Character: Lt. Nikolaus 'Niki' von Preyn
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
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The House That Shadows Built
Title: The House That Shadows Built
Character: (archive footage)
Released: July 8, 1931
Type: Movie
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912. It was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release and includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which never came to fruition). The title comes from a biography of Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), by William Henry Irwin.
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The Stolen Jools
Title: The Stolen Jools
Character: Maurice Chevalier
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
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The Little Cafe
Title: The Little Cafe
Character: Albert Lorifian
Released: January 20, 1931
Type: Movie
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris café owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it....
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Paramount on parade
Title: Paramount on parade
Released: December 5, 1930
Type: Movie
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Playboy of Paris
Title: Playboy of Paris
Character: Albert Loriflan
Released: October 18, 1930
Type: Movie
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it.
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Galas de la Paramount
Title: Galas de la Paramount
Character: Self (from original version)
Released: July 31, 1930
Type: Movie
Spanish-language version of PARAMOUNT ON PARADE (q.v.), with new sequences of interest to Spanish-speaking audiences mixed with original- version sequences.
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The Big Pond
Title: The Big Pond
Character: Pierre Mirande
Released: May 3, 1930
Type: Movie
A singing Frenchman meets an American heiress and gets a job at her father's chewing-gum factory.
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Paramount on Parade
Title: Paramount on Parade
Character: Apache
Released: April 22, 1930
Type: Movie
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
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The Love Parade
Title: The Love Parade
Character: Count Alfred Renard
Released: January 18, 1930
Type: Movie
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
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Innocents of Paris
Title: Innocents of Paris
Character: Maurice Marney
Released: January 2, 1929
Type: Movie
Directed by Richard Wallace.
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L'Affaire de la rue de Lourcine
Title: L'Affaire de la rue de Lourcine
Character: Maurice
Released: October 23, 1923
Type: Movie
Back from an alcohol-fueled evening, two former high school friends wake up and find they may have murdered a female coal-dealer.
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Par habitude
Title: Par habitude
Character: Maurice
Released: September 28, 1923
Type: Movie
Maurice returns out of habit in the apartment from which he has just moved and turns the lives of the new tenants upside down.
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Jim Bougne, boxeur
Title: Jim Bougne, boxeur
Character: Maurice
Released: June 15, 1923
Type: Movie
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Bad Boy
Title: Bad Boy
Character: Louis-Philippe Massoubre
Released: February 9, 1923
Type: Movie
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Gonzague
Title: Gonzague
Character: Gonzague / Maurice
Released: January 23, 1923
Type: Movie
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Une soirée mondaine
Title: Une soirée mondaine
Character: Momo
Released: February 2, 1917
Type: Movie
A man and a woman crash a party
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The Dwarf Kingdom of Lilliput Versus Gigas the Tall, Prince of the Giants
Title: The Dwarf Kingdom of Lilliput Versus Gigas the Tall, Prince of the Giants
Released: October 18, 1914
Type: Movie
In the dwarf kingdom of Lilliput, people were celebrating the engagement of the Princess Piccolina. Meanwhile, the rumor eventually reached the ears of Gigas the Tall and he had his men bring him the princess. General Tom Thumb gathered his army and attacked the palace of the Giants.
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La Valse à la mode
Title: La Valse à la mode
Released: September 25, 1908
Type: Movie
Maurice Chevalier simply can't stop dancing.