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Reda Caire (real name: Joseph Gandhour) (1908–1963) was a popular singer of operettes in Paris in the 1930s and 1950s.David Bret, ''The Mistinguett legend'', Robson, 1990, p. 199
/ref>Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette, ''Petit futé: Var'', 2010, p. 22

/ref>Michel Souvais, ''Arletty, confidences à son secrétaire'', Editions Publibook, 200

/ref> Gandhour was born in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

in 1908. He took his stage name from his hometown. He starred in the movie, ''L'enfant de minuit''. During the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, he was accused of being Jewish.Robert Zaretsky, ''Nîmes at War: Religion, Politics, and Public Opinion in the Gard, 1938–1944'', Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994, p. 10

/ref> He was gay, though

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. He was buried in Saint-Zacharie, France in 1963.

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