Yves Montand , of his true name Ivo Livi , is a Acteur of Cinéma, Chanteur and Danseur interprets Music-hall French of origin Italy, born the October 13rd 1921 with Monsummano Alto, in Toscane in Italy and deceased the November 9th 1991 with Senlis in the Oise in France.

Biography

Yves Montand, from his true name Ivo Livi, is born the October 13rd 1921 with Monsummano Alto, in Toscane, in the Italy that Benito Mussolini will make fascistic the following year. The son of Giovanni and Giuseppina Livi is resulting from a militant working-class family which he venerates and which will transmit to him the worship of the Communisme. He is the last of a phratry of three children, his Lydia sister and his older brother Giuliano (Julien), having been born in 1915 and 1917.

In 1923, it is only two years old when its family emigrates towards the France and settles in the poor districts of Marseilles to flee the fascistic Italy . His/her father creates a small family factory of brushes, and its two elder quickly leaves the school to earn their living, as hairdresser for Lydia, and waiter of coffee and enthusiastic Communist militant for his Julien brother. He has a materially difficult childhood and moreover is regarded as an emigrated wop. He is impassioned of cinema, of American musical comedies, in particular the numbers of clappers of his idol Fred Astaire.

In 1929, the Livi family obtains French nationality. In 1932, his/her Giovanni father files for bankruptcy of its small factory. Ivo is then 11 years old, and must go to work with the factory. Is 14 years old, he works as apprentice in the hairdressing salon for ladies where his/her Lydia sister works, and passes a CAPE of hairdresser successfully.

In 1938, at the 17 years age, it accepts a work of driver of room in a cabaret of Music-hall of Marseilles, before singing imitations of Charles Trenet, Maurice Chevalier or Fernandel, and its song In the plains of Far West , under the name of artist " Yves Montand" , name which it chooses in remembering his mother, by a mixture of Italian and French: " Ivo, monta". Its enormous talent of interpreter, its charm worthy of the largest seducers and his stage business of perfectionist of the Music-hall ensure to him an immediate success near the public. It occurs then in the cabarets of Marseilles and the area before occurring the June 21st 1939 with the Alcazar, then with the Odéon, institutional temples of the Music-hall of Marseilles, with a crashing to pieces success.

In 1939, the Second world war bursts and it finds operation with the " building sites of Provence" , from where he flees for Paris in spring 1941, not to be sent in Germany to the service of obligatory work (STO). He occurs with the ABC in February with same success as with Marseilles, then with Bobino, the Madness-Belleville, and famous the Moulin-Rouge where he passes in first part of Edith Piaf. It is the love at first sight between the two artists, and already famous and adulated Edith Piaf, devourer of men, undertakes to initiate his new lover with the strings of the trade, with the life of artist. It initiates it near the important people of the moment of the entertainment world, such Joseph Kosma, Henri Crolla, Loulou Gasté, Jean Guigo, Henri Contet, Louiguy, Marguerite Monnot, Philippe-Gerard, Bob Castela, Francis Lemarque, etc…

In 1945, Montand is a star of the Music-hall and passes by high-speed motorboat to the Théâtre of the Star to Paris. It launches out in a career of Acteur of Cinéma. It successfully makes its beginnings at the sides of Edith Piaf in Star without light , then in the Doors of the night of Marcel Carné, from where it connects an important career of movie actor.

After the Moulin-Rouge, it leaves with Edith Piaf in round until in 1946 where they separate.

In 1948, a friend takes it along to Saint-Paul-with-Vence on the Riviera of which it becomes one accustomed estival of the Inn of the Gold Dove and where it meets Jacques Prévert and Simone Signoret in 1949. The love at first sight is instantaneous. Simone Signoret immediately gives up her husband the realizer Yves Allégret with whom it has a little girl Catherine Allégret to live with Montand and his daughter, places Dauphine at Paris. The December 22nd 1951, they marry and become one of the most media couples of the French entertainment world.

In 1952, Henri-Georges Clouzot offers to him its first great role with the cinema with the Wages of the fear . The film is rewarded for the Grand Prix of the Cannes festival 1953.

In 1954, the couple buys a property with Autheuil-Authouillet in Normandy which becomes a high artistic meeting place and intellectual where pass regularly Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Serge Reggiani, Pierre Brasseur, Luis Bunuel, Jorge Semprun… the couple militates for its communist ideas and is catalogued " companions of route" French Communist party (PCF).

In 1954, they play in the play of the writer Arthur Miller, the Witches of Salem with such a success that the part is played until Christmas 1955.

In 1959, Montand starts a triumphal round with the the United States with Broadway, New York where it turns over in 1961 and 1963, and carries out several world rounds of variety.

In 1956, Montand is on the point of starting a round of variety in the USSR when the October 24th the Russian tanks invade Budapest in Hungary (Insurrection of Budapest). It decides despite everything to sing in front of Russian with Moscow where it meets the Russian president Nikita Khrouchtchev which it questions personally, at the time of a meeting deprived during four hours, on the causes of the invasion of Budapest.

In 1957, it undertakes a triumphal round of spectacle in all the countries of the Europe of the East from where it returns with Simone Signoret deeply disillusioned and very disappointed of what it saw of the concrete application of the Communisme in these countries. Its party taken political being above all deeply of origin governor, subsidiary company and family, it has much evil to refute it for this reason.

In 1959, Montand gains a statute of international high-speed motorboat with a round with the the United States, where it meets, with Signoret, Arthur Miller and his wife Marilyn Monroe, then with the Canada and the Japan. It makes in 1960 to Hollywood the film the Billionaire of George Cukor with Marilyn Monroe with which it has a idylle under fires of the international press which definitively breaks part of the confidence of Signoret in her even and in its couple. She then undertakes to destroy herself unrelentingly with small fire with the alcoholic drinks… Yves Montand is, on her side, an unrepentant seducer of woman wished by thousands of women.

Montand goes back to the United States in 1961 to the Golden Theater of Broadway to New York then to the Japan and in England as a one of the artists of variety to the most known successes of planet.

Starting from 1964, it is devoted to its passion of the cinema and does not go up any more on scene but in an episodical way. It turns with Costa Gavras, Alain Resnais, Rene Clément…

In the Eighties, Montand militates for the Human rights, and engages in favor of the Polish trade union Solidarnosc anti Communist of Lech Wałęsa in December 1981.

In September 1985, it is deeply touched by the death of Simone 64 years old Signoret and puts its career in Bern. It then has a connection with its assistant, Carole Amiel which was recruited for the round of 1982. It gives birth the December 31st 1988 to Valentine Montand, its first child, during the turning of Manon of the Sources of Claude Berri according to Marcel Pagnol whereas he is 67 years old.

The November 9th 1991, it dies of a Myocardial infarction at the 70 years age during the turning of the film IP5 of Jean-Jacques Beineix, film for the needs of which it had bathed, at the end of September, in a lake frozen in the Oise with Senlis. He dies at the hospital of Senlis and is buried with the cemetery of the Father-Lachaise of Paris with his first wife Simone Signoret.

Montand and the policy

Its proletarian origin of a communist pro medium was initially a reason for exploitation for its career of singer ( I like to stroll on the grand boulevards , Luna Park ), but nourishes then his political commitment, impresses yells, of enthusiasm, clearness (recognition of its blindness in front of the Stalinisme) and of fidelity to the ideals of left: in 1973, it brutally decided to go up on scene by support for the people Chile in, step filmed by Chris Marker in the Loneliness of the basic singer .

It political Marie and cinema while taking part in the trilogy of Costa-Gavras denouncing the extremism:

  • Z (1969) where it is Grigoris Lambrakis, a deputy of left assassinated by the mode of the colonels of a Mediterranean country;
  • the Consent (1970) where it incarnates the Czech vice-minister Artur London imprisoned by the Communist regime;
  • State of siege (1973) where it is an American agent, inspired of daN Mitrione, adviser of a South American military regime, removed by the extreme left.
In spite of its public engagements and supports, it belonged forever to a political party, but was militant Mouvement of peace.

  • I - as I care (see also this film of Henri Verneuil, 1979)

The screen

Animal of cinema, able to play of back as could do it Raimu or Jules Berry, it succeeded in placing its strong personality and its breaks in all the envelopes: of the alcoholic cop in search for rehabilitation in the red Circle with the father primesautier of Any fire, any flame , of the wise prosecutor of I like Icare until despair in love with Clearly of woman , of the nose confronted with a bloody nuisance in the Savage with the young driver ballotté in the truck of the Wages of the fear or F1 of Grand Prix . Impassioned of weapons, he excelled in the roles of cop: Compartment killers , Police force Python 357 , the red Circle . Also very at ease in the comedy, even when it is musical ( the Billionaire , Three places for the 26 ), he can choose the confidentiality and the withdrawal in One evening, a train .

Its meeting with Claude Sautet enables him to affix an additional print on the French cinema: that of a middle-class of the Years 1970, arrived, but not without crack, continuing to dissimulate its distress behind the glibness: César and Rosalie (1972) and Vincent, Francois, Paul… and others (1974).

In 1986, Claude Berri invites it to camp a Papet full with liveliness and tragedy in the diptych which it adapts of Marcel Pagnol: Jean de Florette and Manon of the sources .

Lastly, in 1988, in the musical comedy Three places for the 26 , Jacques Demy makes him interpret its own role, ghost in Marseilles to assemble there a sung spectacle of its life…

Personal life

In August 1949, it meets Simone Signoret on vacation with Saint-Paul-with-Vence. It is the love at first sight. It leaves Yves Allégret to follow it, with her daughter Catherine Allégret. They marry in December 1951.

In 1960-61 it turns the Billionaire with Marilyn Monroe and has a momentary connection with it.

Its grandson Benjamin Castaldi reveals in his book Maintenant, it will be necessary all to filially say a love affair perturbing at the same time known as and nonknown as known with Signoret between Yves Montand and the girl of Simone Signoret, Catherine Allégret raised by Montand, then just major…

In October 1985, Montand saw the drama of the disappearance of Simone Signoret and fact knowledge, on the turning of Manon of the sources , of a young assistant, Carole Amiel, last woman of her life and mother of her single Valentine child, born the December 31st 1988. Montand is then 67 years old and dies three years later in 1991, whereas the turning of was completed.

Buried with the Cemetery of the Father-Lachaise, near Simone Signoret. Its skin will be exhumed in November 1997, Aurore Drossart claiming since a few years being the illegitimate girl of the actor, and having required that the Court of Appeal of Paris make carry out a comparative expertise on the DNA, which appears negative.

Quotation

I remember that it is thanks to Edith Piaf that the Companions of the Song, Eddie Constantine and Yves Montand began . , Georges Perec, I remember, 49.

Catalog of films

Discography

  • 1945: It has… (Odéon 281661)
  • 1945: It makes… (Odéon 281661)
  • 1945: In the plains of Far-West (Odéon 281662)
  • 1945: Luna Park (Odéon 281662, recorded the 5/15/45)
  • 1946: Dead sheets (film " Doors of the nuit")
  • 1946: Me, I of insane (Odéon 281744, recorded the 10/21/46)
  • 1946: Me, I of insane (Odéon 281744, second version)
  • 1946: Battling Joe (Odéon 281745)
  • 1946: The legend of the Boogie-woogie (Odéon 281744, recorded the 12/16/46)
  • 1946: Thus the life (Odéon 281769) goes
  • 1946: He sang (Odéon 281769, recorded the 12/3/46)
  • 1946: The large city (Odéon 281745)
  • 1947: But what do I have? (Odéon 281759)
  • 1947: My kid, my p' tite kid (Odéon 281759)
  • 1947: This Mister-there (Odéon 281760, recorded the 11/3/47)
  • 1948: I came to foot (Odéon 281887)
  • 1948: My soft valley (Odéon 281887)
  • 1948: Mathilda (Odéon 281888)
  • 1948: A p' tit glass of bier (Odéon 281888, recorded the 1/26/48)
  • 1948: Clopin-clopant (Odéon 281967, recorded the 5/7/48)
  • 1948: Pretty like a pink (Odéon 281967, recorded the 5/7/48)
  • 1948: It is so good (Odéon 281936)
  • 1948: Vel' d' Hiv (Odéon 281936, recorded the 5/11/48)
  • 1948: Because that gives me courage (Odéon 281963)
  • 1948: In Paris (Odéon 281963)
  • 1948: Shoeshiners of shoes of Broadway (poem read)
  • 1948: Shoeshiners of shoes of Broadway (Odéon 281964)
  • 1948: The children who like (Odéon 281964, recorded the 7/13/48)
  • 1948: To stroll both (Odéon 282006)
  • 1948: World champion (Odéon 282006, recorded the 11/17/48)
  • 1948: Master Pierre (Odéon 282031, recorded the 12/14/48)
  • 1948: Wood fire (Odéon 282032)
  • 1948: Nothing in the hands, nothing in the pockets (Odéon 282031, recorded the 12/14/48)
  • 1948: Clementine (Odéon 282032, recorded the 12/22/48)
  • 1949: I have vein (Odéon 282033, recorded the 1/3/49)
  • 1949: Subway (Odéon 282033, recorded the 1/26/49)
  • 1949: Dead sheets (Odéon 282066)
  • 1949: And the festival continues (Odéon 282066, recorded the 5/9/49)
  • 1949: My (it) p' tite Suzon (Odéon 282065)
  • 1949: When it is there (Odéon 282065, recorded the 5/17/49)
  • 1949: Barbara (Odéon 282067, poem read)
  • 1949: The painter, the apple and Picasso (Odéon 282067, recorded the 6/17/49, poem read)
  • 1949: My meadow (Odéon 282155, recorded the 11/22/49)
  • 1949: Horn of fried (Odéon 282158)
  • 1949: Ball, small ball (Odéon 282158, recorded the 12/27/49)
  • 1950: Horn of fried (Odéon 282158, recorded the 2/14/50, second version)
  • 1950: Fleur of the Seine (Odéon 282237)
  • 1950: Street Saint-Vincent (Odéon 282237, recorded the 6/30/50)
  • 1950: Dead sheets (film " Memories perdus" , summer 1950)
  • 1950: Companions of the bad days (film " Memories perdus" , summer 1950)
  • 1950: Sunflower (film " Memories perdus" , summer 1950)
  • 1950: Sunflower (Odéon 282307)
  • 1950: Companions of the bad days (Odéon 282307)
  • 1950: Kids of my district (Odéon 282308, recorded the 10/23/50)
  • 1950: Love, my dear love (Odéon 282155)
  • 1950: Travelling acrobats (Odéon 282318, recorded the 11/10/50)
  • 1950: Sensational (Odéon 282317)
  • 1950: Tell me OJ (Odéon 282308)
  • 1950: The coachman of hackney carriage (Odéon 282317, recorded the 11/29/50)
  • 1951: The Paris urchin (Odéon 282366, recorded the 1/3/51)
  • 1951: It is at dawn (Odéon 282366)
  • 1951: The galérien (Odéon 282318, recorded the 1/30/51)
  • 1951: The sleeper of the valley (Odéon 282391, recorded the 2/21/51)
  • 1951: Street Lepic (Odéon 282419)
  • 1951: Kids of my district (Odéon 282308, recorded the 3/12/51)
  • 1951: Grand boulevards (Odéon 282419)
  • 1951: Current events (Odéon 282418)
  • 1951: A young lady on a swing (Odéon 282418, recorded the 4/4/51)
  • 1951: In Paris (film " Paris sings toujours" 05/51)
  • 1951: The lament of the red inn (film " The inn rouge" 06/51)
  • 1952: Saint-Paul de Vence (Odéon 282391)
  • 1952: Flamenco of Paris (Odéon 282576, recorded the 2/13/52)
  • 1952: When a soldier (Odéon 282577)
  • 1952: Appointment with freedom (Odéon 282576)
  • 1952: The truck drivers (Odéon 282577, recorded the 2/13/52)
  • 1952: In love (Odéon 282710, recorded the 11/10/52) the
  • 1952: In love (Odéon 282710, the second version)
  • 1952: The musician (Odéon 282714)
  • 1952: Postcards (Odéon 282710)
  • 1952: You, you do not resemble anybody (Odéon 282714, recorded the 12/17/52)
  • 1952: It is not a love song (Odéon 282733)
  • 1952: Ninon, my Ninette (Odéon 282733)
  • 1952: Street of Belleville (Odéon 282737, recorded the 12/19/52)

  • 1953 : to supplement

  • 1954: to supplement
  • 1955: to supplement
  • 1955: Song of the partisans
  • 1956: to supplement
  • 1957: to supplement
  • 1958: to supplement
  • 1959: to supplement

  • 1960 : Incurably romantic (film " The milliardaire")

  • 1960: Let' S make coils (film " The milliardaire")

  • 1961 : to supplement

  • 1962: to supplement

  • 1963 : " I you aime" (Philips 432880 - 45 turns)

  • 1963: It is fault with the accordion (Philips 432880 - 45 turns)
  • 1963: Pretty May (Philips 6680267 - 33 turns, song not republished out of CD)

  • 1964 : to supplement

  • 1967 : I love you (album Montand 7)

  • 1967: Idylle philoménale (album Montand 7)
  • 1967: Most beautiful of the seas (album Montand 7)
  • 1967: Bourlingue (album Montand 7, song not republished out of CD)
  • 1967: In love (album Montand 7) the
  • 1967: The dove of the arch (album Montand 7)
  • 1967: To lay down with it (album Montand 7)
  • 1967: I remember (album Montand 7)
  • 1967: The port (album Montand 7)
  • 1967: My brother (album Montand 7, song not republished out of CD)
  • 1967: Tileries (album Montand 7)
  • 1967: It was (album Montand 7, song not republished out of CD)

  • 1968 : to supplement

  • 1974: to supplement

  • 1978 : To make the portrait of a bird (poem read in the radio broadcast " Nuts of the Variety of J.C. Averty)

  • 1978: Headaches (CBS 6200 - 45 turns)
  • 1978: 1947 (CBS 6200 - 45 turns)

  • 1980 : to supplement

  • 1981: to supplement
  • 1982: to supplement
  • 1983: to supplement
  • 1984: to supplement
  • 1986: to supplement
  • 1987: to supplement

  • 1988 : Who lust? (film " Three places for the 26")

  • 1988: When one returns (film " Three places for the 26")
  • 1988: Movies which sing (film " Three places for the 26")
  • 1988: Soft madness (film " Three places for the 26")
  • 1988: Who lust? (film " Three places for the 26" , sung with Mathilda May)
  • 1989: Hollywood (emission tele " Fields-Elysées, special Yves Montand")
  • 1989: With the kabaret of the last chance (recording of studio)
  • 1991: Valentine (poem read - repetitions of the song recital 1992)
  • 1991: 1947 (repetitions of the song recital 1992)
  • 1991: Dead sheets (repetitions of the song recital 1992)

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