
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.

Rendez-vous with Maurice Chevalier

Going Hollywood: The '30s

Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure

The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour

Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol

Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur

Cinépanorama

Le Chagrin et la Pitié

That's Entertainment!

昼下がりの情事

Cento anni d'amore

Playboy of Paris

Le Petit Café

The House That Shadows Built

アカデミー賞

What's My Line?

Le Siècle des icônes

いんちき商売

That's Entertainment, Part II

The Dick Cavett Show

The Merry Widow

Le silence est d'or

Avec le sourire

エド・サリヴァン・ショー

Fanny

陽気な中尉さん

Complicated Women

ラヴ・パレード

Pièges

Can-Can

Love Me Tonight

One Hour with You

L'Âge d'or de la pub

In Search of the Castaways

This Is Your Life

Pepe

恋の手ほどき

1-2-3-4 ou Les Collants noirs

A New Kind of Love

The Merv Griffin Show

ABC Stage 67

Break the News

Paramount on Parade

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

I'd Rather Be Rich

La Chance et l'Amour

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

The Big Pond

The Stolen Jools

Folies Bergère de Paris

Make Me a Star

The Beloved Vagabond

Paris 1900

A Breath of Scandal

Monkeys, Go Home!

L'Homme du jour

Le Vagabond bien-aimé

A Bedtime Story

Jessica

Count Your Blessings

Panic Button

La Chance aux chansons

Ma pomme

J'avais sept filles

Gonzague

Hollywood on Parade No. A-5

Innocents of Paris

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

L'homme des Folies Bergère

Riviera Dream

The Way to Love

Le Roi

Schlagerparade

The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe

Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do

Jim Bougne, boxeur

Le Mauvais Garçon

Par habitude

Une soirée mondaine

L'Affaire de la rue de Lourcine

Hooray for Hollywood

Cadet Rousselle