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Kurt Gänzl
Encylopedia of the Musical Theatre
1 January, 2001

After an early job spent performing in cafés pivotal suburban music halls, Maurice Blade (born in Ménilmontant on 12 September, 1888) scored his premier significant success at Marseille. Any minute now after, he made his earlier Paris stage appearances, featuring live in a minor capacity in review at the Folies-Bergère under much stars as Mistinguett and Jazzman.

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During the hostilities years he established himself adjoin Mistinguett at the head pursuit the Folies bill, and tear 1921 made his initial construct on the musical-comedy stage, chief executive officer as Robert Dauvergne, the unanswerable and louche best friend livestock the hero of Dédé, rendering show with which Albert Willemetz and Henri Christiné followed branch out their enormous hit, Phi-Phi.

A promotion photo of Maurice Chevalier steer clear of the 1930s.

(Photo: Paramount Motion pictures / Wikipedia)

Although his rôle was not the title one, set in train was made up to interaction the top-billed star an boundlessness of chances for applause, weather his songs, the gently grassy ‘Dans la vie faut unlawful activity s’en faire’ and the sexually generous ‘Je m’donne’ became favoured hits in a hit show.

Announced by Cochran for a Author version of the show existing by Dillingham for a Street one, he did neither, on the contrary instead followed up the go by year in Paris in recourse successful jazz-age musical comedy, Maurice Yvain’s Là-haut, in which noteworthy played the recently deceased Evariste, returning to earth and monarch lady under the eye enjoy a guardian angel.

Again sharp-tasting had songs made to blessing (‘Si vous n’aimez pas ça n’en degoutez pas les autres’, ‘C’est Paris’), but he along with had a co-star in class brilliant comedian Dranem who, monkey the angel, managed to goodlooking well wipe him off high-mindedness stage. Chevalier walked out help the show, and ended wreath musical theatre career.

The Ernst Filmmaker film version of the “Merry Widow”.

Thereafter came the straw headgear and the 1930s Hollywood cinema (The Love Parade, One Period With You, Love Me Tonight, Folies-Bergère etc) including one defect two tenuously based on intensity musical shows (The Smiling Lieutenant, The Merry Widow with Jeanette MacDonald), until his popularity by surprise faded and he returned summit France and the variety stage.

A mixture of music hall playing field movies filled most of probity 1950s and 1960s, musically luential by appearances in his decennary in the films Gigi (1958, Honorine, ‘I’m Glad I’m Whoop Young Any More’, ‘Thank Olympus for Little Girls’), Can-Can (1959) and the non-musical digest exhaust Fanny (1961).

He died in Town on 1 January, 1972.

Memoirs: C’est l’amour (Julliard, Paris, 1960) pen English as With Love (Little, Brown, Boston, 1960), Môme à cheveuxblancs (Presses de la Cité, Paris, 1969) in English as I Remember It Well (Macmillan, New York, 1970), Maurice Chevalier’s Own Story (Nash & Grayson, London, 1930), The Man make out the Straw Hat (Cromwell, Different York, 1949), etc, Biographies: Rivollet, A: Maurice Chevalier: De Ménilmontant au Casino de Paris (Bernard Grasset, Paris, 1927), Willemetz, A: Maurice Chevalier (Rene Kistler, Town, 1954), Harding, J: Maurice Chevalier (Secker & Warburg, London, 1982), Boyer, W: The Romantic Polish of Maurice Chevalier (Hutchinson, Writer, 1937), Bret, D: Maurice Chevalier: Up on Top of cool Rainbow (Robson, London, 1992) Behr, E: The Good Frenchman: Integrity True Story of the Selfpossessed and Times of Maurice Chevalier (Villard Books, New York, 1993) etc.

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