Maurice Auguste Chevalier (French: [mɔʁis ʃəvalje]; 12 September 1888 – 1 January 1972) was a French singer, actor, and entertainer. He is best known...
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Haakon Maurice Chevalier (September 10, 1901 – July 4, 1985) was an American writer, translator, and professor of French literature at the University...
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Soliloquy" – Sung by Maurice Chevalier "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" – Sung by Maurice Chevalier "It's a Bore" – Sung by Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan...
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The Alhambra-Maurice Chevalier was a music hall located at 50, rue de Malte in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. It opened on August 11, 1866, and after...
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Marguerite Yvonne Vallee in Bordeaux in 1899. Vallée was the wife of Maurice Chevalier from 1927 to 1933. She died in Vallauris, France in 1996, aged 97...
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1929 film Innocents of Paris, where it was performed by Maurice Chevalier. The song was Chevalier's first hit in the United States, and was among the best...
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David Bret (section Maurice Chevalier)
Publishers Weekly says of Maurice Chevalier: Up on Top of a Rainbow: "In this entertaining look at the life of Maurice Chevalier (1888–1972), Bret, author...
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directed by Rouben Mamoulian, with music by Rodgers and Hart. It stars Maurice Chevalier as a tailor who poses as a nobleman and Jeanette MacDonald as a princess...
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talent agent and producer who managed the careers of Ingrid Bergman, Maurice Chevalier, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, John Huston, Liv Ullmann and Billy...
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domestic receipts. The film stars Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jourdan, and gave Juliet Prowse her first speaking role...
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directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, and Maurice Chevalier. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on the 1920...
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pre-Code musical comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, involving the marital difficulties of Queen...
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throughout both parts of the film. Maurice Chevalier's "Sweepin' the Clouds Away" is used repeatedly during the film. Chevalier was a popular entertainer with...
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nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Maurice Chevalier. It also provided Chevalier with his first American hits "You Brought a New Kind...
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Bill Anderson suggested Maurice Chevalier should sing the title song. Following the suggestion, Richard Sherman imitated Chevalier's voice as he performed...
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Lehár. The film was directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch and stars Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald. A French-language version was produced at...
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known as The Castaways) is a 1962 American adventure film starring Maurice Chevalier and Hayley Mills in a tale about a worldwide search for a shipwrecked...
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Raphaelson from the play Only a Dream by Lothar Schmidt. It stars Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin, Charlie Ruggles and Roland Young...
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Disney Productions and directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. The film stars Maurice Chevalier, Dean Jones, and Yvette Mimieux. Aside from contributing to the soundtrack...
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Henri Betti (category Chevaliers of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques)
2005), was a French composer and a pianist. Pianist and composer of Maurice Chevalier from 1940 to 1945, Henri Betti is best known for composing the music...
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which could honor their work in more than one film. George Arliss, Maurice Chevalier, and Ronald Colman were all nominated for two different roles in the...
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originally performed by French actor, cabaret singer and entertainer Maurice Chevalier. Its first public performance was in 1925. The song was strongly associated...
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of it rarely. In his authorized biography of Maurice Chevalier, author David Bret claims that Chevalier and Mistinguett were the ones who first "shopped"...
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Cary Grant 1960 – Escandalos Imperiales (Heliodor – 610 800) – With Maurice Chevalier 1960 – Peter and Sophia (Parlophone – PCSM 3012, LP) – with Peter...
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(1955), with Fred Astaire; and Gigi (1958) with Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier. Dissatisfied with her career despite her success ("I thought musicals...
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and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (The Love Parade, Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow and One Hour With...
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Varna, presented many famous French singers, including Mistinguett, Maurice Chevalier, and Tino Rossi. Le Lido on the Champs-Élysées opened in 1946, presenting...
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pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert and Miriam Hopkins, and released by Paramount Pictures...
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Shepherd of Kingdom Come, in American newspapers in 1931 attributed to Maurice Chevalier, and in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, attributed to Elijah Muhammad...
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for Moore in a projected film with Maurice Chevalier, who had always enjoyed solo star billing up until then. Chevalier felt so deeply about this blow to...
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