Maurice Chevalier
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maurice Chevalier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Jessica (1962)
as Father Antonio
Love in the Afternoon (1957)
as Claude Chavasse
Gigi (1958)
as Honoré Lachaille
A Breath of Scandal (1960)
as Prince Philip
The Merry Widow (1934)
as Count Danilo
That's Entertainment! (1974)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
as (archive footage)
Love Me Tonight (1932)
as Maurice 'Baron' Courtelin
A New Kind of Love (1963)
as Self
Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976)
as (archive footage)
Folies Bergère de Paris (1935)
as Eugene Charlier / Baron Fernand Cassini
I'd Rather Be Rich (1964)
as Philip Dulaine
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story (1990)
as Self (archive footage)
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
L'Âge d'or de la pub (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Monkey Business (1931)
as Himself (voice)
One Hour with You (1932)
as Dr. Andre Bertier
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli (1973)
as Self (archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
as (archive footage)
100 Years of Love (1954)
as Massimo (segment "Amore 1954")
Can-Can (1960)
as Paul Barriere
A Royal Affair (1949)
as The King
Make Me a Star (1932)
as Maurice Chevalier (uncredited)
Folies Bergère (1935)
as Eugene Charlier / Baron Cassini
Pepe (1960)
as Maurice Chevalier
Hollywood on Parade No. A-5 (1932)
as Self
The Way to Love (1933)
as François
Silence Is Golden (1947)
as Émile Clément
Monkeys, Go Home! (1967)
as Father Sylvain
Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
The House That Shadows Built (1931)
as (archive footage)
Chance at Love (1964)
as Self (segment "Les interviews-vérités") (uncredited)
Count Your Blessings (1959)
as Duc de St. Cloud
In Search of the Castaways (1962)
as Jacques Paganel
Just Me (1950)
as Maurice Vallier aka 'Ma Pomme'
The Stolen Jools (1931)
as Maurice Chevalier
The Beloved Vagabond (1936)
as Gaston de Nerac
The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe (1962)
as Self - Host
The Love Parade (1929)
as Count Alfred Renard
A Bedtime Story (1933)
as Monsieur Rene
Complicated Women (2003)
as Self (archive footage)
Riviera Dream (1950)
as Maurice Chevalier
Fanny (1961)
as Panisse
Sammy Davis Jr. in Europa (1968)
as Self
Black Tights (1961)
as Himself / Narrator
Show - Charme - Chansons (1965)
as Self
Panic Button (1964)
as Fontaine
Paramount on Parade (1930)
as Apache
Une soirée mondaine (1917)
as Momo
My Seven Little Sins (1954)
as Comte André de Courvallon
Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
The Dwarf Kingdom of Lilliput Versus Gigas the Tall, Prince of the Giants (1914)
Actor
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
as Lt. Nikolaus 'Niki' von Preyn
Gonzague (1923)
as Gonzague / Maurice
The Big Pond (1930)
as Pierre Mirande
Paris 1900 (1948)
as Self (archive footage)
Schlagerparade (1953)
as himself
L'Affaire de la rue de Lourcine (1923)
as Maurice
The Man of the Day (1937)
as Alfred Boulard
Hooray for Hollywood (1976)
as Self (archive footage)
Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Personal Column (1939)
as Robert Fleury
The Little Cafe (1931)
as Albert Lorifian
Playboy of Paris (1930)
as Albert Loriflan
The Beloved Vagabond (1936)
as Gaston de Nerac 'Paragot'
Break the News (1938)
as François Verrier
Bad Boy (1923)
as Louis-Philippe Massoubre
With a Smile (1936)
as Victor Larnois
Rendez-vous With Maurice Chevalier (2021)
as Self - Entertainer (archive footage)
Innocents of Paris (1929)
as Maurice Marney
Jim Bougne, boxeur (1923)
as Maurice
The Merry Widow Waltz (1908)
Actor
Par habitude (1923)
as Maurice
The Great Man: W.C. Fields (2005)
as Self (archive footage)