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Cherchez L'idole
''Cherchez l'idole'' (English title: ''The Chase'') is a 1964 French-Italian film directed by Michel Boisrond. Cast * Dany Saval as Corinne * Franck Fernandel as Richard * Dominique Boschero as Vonny * Christian Marin as Marcel * Pierre Doris as The disk seller * Jacques Dynam as The driver * Franco Califano as The director As themselves, * Pierre Bellemare * Harold Kay * Claude Piéplu * Sylvie Vartan * Eddy Mitchell * Les Chaussettes Noires * Nancy Holloway * Frank Alamo * Jean-Jacques Debout * Mylène Demongeot * Charles Aznavour * Johnny Hallyday Jean-Philippe Léo Smet (; 15 June 1943 – 5 December 2017), better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday, was a French rock and roll and pop singer and actor, credited for having brought rock and roll to France. During a career spanning 57 ... References External links * {{Sylvie Vartan French musical comedy films Italian musical comedy films 1964 films 1964 musical comedy films Films directed by Michel Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Boisrond
Michel Jacques Boisrond (9 October 1921, Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais – 10 November 2002, La Celle-Saint-Cloud) was a French film director and screenwriter. His work spanned five decades, from the 1950s to the 1990s. Career A former apprentice of Jean Delannoy, Jean Cocteau, and René Clair, Michel Boisrond debuted as a full-fledged director in 1955 with ''Cette Sacrée Gamine'' starring Brigitte Bardot Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot ( ; ; born 28 September 1934), often referred to by her initials B.B., is a former French actress, singer and model. Famous for portraying sexually emancipated characters with hedonistic lifestyles, she was one of the .... His works typically fall into the comedy, romance, or comedy drama genres. Filmography References External links * French film directors 1921 births 2002 deaths 20th-century French screenwriters French television directors People from Eure-et-Loir {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Dynam
Jacques Dynam (30 December 1923 – 12 November 2004) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1942 and 2004, among which the ''Fantomas'' saga. Selected filmography * ''La symphonie fantastique'' (1942) - (uncredited) * '' The Angel of the Night'' (1944) - Un étudiant (uncredited) * ''Les Petites du quai aux fleurs'' (1944) - Paulo * ''La Boîte aux rêves'' (1945) - Petit rôle (uncredited) * '' Alone in the Night'' (1945) - Le chasseur * ''Lunegarde'' (1946) * ''Les Démons de l'aube'' (1946) - Gauthier * ''The Ideal Couple'' (1946) * ''Fantômas'' (1947) - Un préparateur * ''Le diamant de cent sous'' (1948) - Georges * ''3ème cheminée sur la gauche'' (1948) * ''La figure de proue'' (1948) - Lomond * ''Scandale'' (1948) * ''Toute la famille était là'' (1948) - Gaston * ''Manon'' (1949) - Un marin (uncredited) * '' Doctor Laennec'' (1949) - Meriadec * ''Barry'' (1949) - Le moine Claudius * '' Vient de paraître'' (1949) - Un journaliste * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Hallyday
Jean-Philippe Léo Smet (; 15 June 1943 – 5 December 2017), better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday, was a French rock and roll and pop singer and actor, credited for having brought rock and roll to France. During a career spanning 57 years, he released 79 albums and sold more than 110 million records worldwide, mainly in the French-speaking world, making him one of the best-selling artists in the world. He had five diamond albums, 40 golden albums, 22 platinum albums and earned ten ''Victoires de la Musique''. He sang an estimated 1,154 songs and performed 540 duets with 187 artists. Credited for his strong voice and his spectacular shows, he sometimes arrived by entering a stadium through the crowd and once by jumping from a helicopter above the Stade de France, where he performed 9 times. Among his 3,257 shows completed in 187 tours, the most memorable were at Parc des Princes in 1993, at the Stade de France in 1998, just after France's win in the 1998 FIFA World Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour ( , ; born Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian, hy, Շահնուր Վաղինակ Ազնավուրեան, ; 22 May 1924 – 1 October 2018) was a French-Armenian singer, lyricist, actor and diplomat. Aznavour was known for his distinctive vibrato tenor voice: clear and ringing in its upper reaches, with gravelly and profound low notes. In a career as a composer, singer and songwriter, spanning over 70 years, he recorded more than 1,200 songs interpreted in 9 languages. Moreover, he wrote or co-wrote more than 1,000 songs for himself and others. Aznavour is regarded as one of the greatest songwriters in the history of music and an icon of 20th-century pop culture. One of France's most popular and enduring singers, he was dubbed France's Frank Sinatra, while music critic Stephen Holden described Aznavour as a "French pop deity". He was also arguably the most famous Armenian of his time. In 1998, Aznavour was named Entertainer of the Century by CNN and users of ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mylène Demongeot
Mylène Demongeot (born Marie-Hélène Demongeot; 29 September 1935 – 1 December 2022) was a French film, television and theatre actress and author with a career spanning seven decades and more than 100 credits in French, Italian, English and Japanese speaking productions. Demongeot became a star at age 21 with her portrayal of Abigail Williams in ''The Crucible'' (1957) which garnered her a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles nomination and the best actress prize at the socialist Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Some other notable film roles include Elsa in Otto Preminger's ''Bonjour Tristesse'' (1958) alongside Deborah Kerr and David Niven or Milady de Winter in ''The Three Musketeers'' (1961). A "veteran of cinema" who started as one of the blond sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, she managed to avoid typecasting by exploring many film genres including thrillers, westerns, comedies, swashbucklers, period films and even pepla, such as ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Jacques Debout
Jean-Jacques Debout (born 9 March 1940, in Paris) is a French singer-songwriter. In addition to his albums, he has written for a number of renowned artists like Johnny Hallyday, Sylvie Vartan, Dalida, and Chantal Goya. He has also composed a great number of films. Personal life He is married to French singer and actress Chantal Goya Chantal de Guerre (; born 10 June 1942), known as Chantal Goya (), is a French singer and actress. Goya started her career as a ''yé-yé'' girl, singing a catchy mid-1960s hybrid of girl-group pop and French ''chanson''. She also enjoyed a car .... They have two children, Jean-Paul and Clarisse. Discography *1965: ''Les boutons dorés'' *1967: ''Les cloches d'Ecosse'' *1974: ''Redeviens Virginie'' *1976: ''Si tu reviens'' *1989: ''Depuis 1959... Avec toi'' *1991: ''Paul et Virginie'' *1996: ''Best of'' *1997: ''A Long Island'' *2003: ''Les Enfants du Paradis'' *2012: ''Bourlingueur des étoiles'' *2013: ''Sous le soleil des Guinguettes'' (peak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Alamo
Frank Alamo (born Jean-François Grandin; 12 October 1941 – 11 October 2012) was a French singer. He achieved his greatest success in the 1960s. Biography He was born in Paris. He sang in a leading French children's choir, "Les Petits Chanteurs à la croix de bois", and studied music in London between 1957 and 1960.Biography by Gary Hill at Allmusic.com Retrieved 13 October 2012. . Retrieved 13 October 2012. While skiing at in 1962, he met |
Nancy Holloway
Nancy Holloway ( Brown; December 11, 1932 – August 28, 2019) was an American jazz, pop and soul singer and actress who was popular during the 1960s in France, where she continued to perform and live.Nancy Holloway biography AllMusic. Retrieved December 4, 2013 Biography Born in , Ohio, one of ten children of African American heritage, Nancy Brown attended and married when in her teens. The marriage was brief, but she retained her husband's surname of Holloway. She moved to New York ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Chaussettes Noires
Les Chaussettes Noires ( en, 'The Black Socks') were a French rock and roll band founded in 1960, that was among the pioneer of rock music in France, together with Les Chats sauvages. It was originally composed of Claude Moine, a.k.a. Eddy Mitchell (vocals), William Benaïm (guitar solo), Tony D'Arpa (rhythm guitar), Aldo Martinez (bass guitar), and Jean-Pierre Chichportich (drums) Les Chaussettes Noires signed in late 1960 with Barclay Records, under which the band recorded a score of successful gramophone record A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English), or simply a record, is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts nea ...s, including: "Be-Bop-A-Lula" (1960), "Tu parles trop" (1960), "Daniela" (1961) — which remains their biggest hit, "Eddie Sois Bon" (1961) — a French language, French adaptation of Chuck Berry's 1958 song "Johnny B. G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddy Mitchell
Claude Moine (; born 3 July 1942), known professionally as Eddy Mitchell, is a French singer and actor. He began his career in the late 1950s, with the group Les Chaussettes Noires (The Black Socks). He took the name ''Eddy'' from the American expatriate tough-guy actor Eddie Constantine (later the star of Jean-Luc Godard's '' Alphaville''), and chose ''Mitchell'' as his last name simply because it sounds American. The band performed at the Parisian nightclub Golf-Drouot before signing to Barclay Records and finding almost instant success; in 1961 it sold two million records. Heavily influenced by American rock and roll, Mitchell (who went solo in 1963) has often recorded outside France, at first in London, but later in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee. Guitarists Big Jim Sullivan and Jimmy Page and drummer Bobby Graham were among the British session musicians who regularly supported him in London. For his American recordings he employed session men such as Roger Hawkins, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvie Vartan
Sylvie Vartan (; born Sylvie Georges Vartanian; hy, Սիլվի Ժորժ Վարդանյան. on 15 August 1944) is an Armenian-Bulgarian-French singer and actress. She is known as one of the most productive and tough-sounding yé-yé artists. Her performances often featured elaborate show-dance choreography, and she made many appearances on French and Italian TV. Yearly shows with then-husband Johnny Hallyday attracted full houses at the Olympia and the Palais des congrès de Paris throughout the 1960s and mid-1970s. In 2004, after a break in performances, she began recording and giving concerts of jazz ballads in francophone countries. Early life Sylvie Vartan was born in Iskrets, Sofia Province, in the then Kingdom of Bulgaria. Her father, Georges Vartanian (1912—1970), was born in France to a Bulgarian mother named Slavka and an Armenian father. He worked as an attaché at the French embassy in Sofia. The family shortened the name Vartanian to Vartan. Her mother, Ilona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Piéplu
Claude Léon Auguste Piéplu (9 May 1923, Paris–24 May 2006, Paris) was a French theater, film and television actor. He was known for his hoarse and frayed voice. Selected filmography *''D'homme à hommes'' (1948) - (uncredited) *''Le Roi et l'oiseau'' (1952) - Le maire du palais (voice) *''Adorables démons'' (1957) *''Suivez-moi jeune homme'' (1958) - Contrôleur de train *''Du rififi chez les femmes'' (1959) - Un client au restaurant *''It Happened All Night'' (1960) - Clothes salesman *''La Française et l'amour'' (1960) - Marsac (segment "Adultère, L'") *''Le Caïd'' (1960) - Oxner *''La Belle Américaine'' (1961) - Me Fachepot, le notaire *'' Un nommé La Rocca'' (1961) - Le directeur de la prison *''Le Théâtre de la jeunesse'' (1961, TV Series) - Maître Goupil / Michel et Tartolino / Benjamin Franklin / Thenardier / Panocratès / Le libraire *'' La Chambre ardente'' (1962) - L'inspecteur *''Le Diable et les dix commandements'' (1962) - Un vigile (episode "Luxuri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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