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Personal Info

Birth date

1888-09-12 (136 Years)

Day of death

1972-01-01

Gender

Male

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Paris, France

Also known as

Maurice Auguste Chevalier

Maurice Chevalier

Biography

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.

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Filmography

Acting

2023L'Âge d'or de la pub as Self (archive footage)

2022The Century of Icons (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)

2022Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur as Self (archive footage)

2021Rendez-vous With Maurice Chevalier as Self - Entertainer (archive footage)

2019Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol as Self (archive footage)

2018Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure as Self (archive footage)

2015Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do as Self (archive footage)

2003Complicated Women as Self (archive footage)

1990You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story as Self (archive footage)

1984La Chance aux chansons (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)

1984Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)

1976That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)

1976Hooray for Hollywood as Self (archive footage)

1975Système 2 (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)

1974That's Entertainment! as (archive footage)

1973The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli as Self (archive footage)

1971Cadet Rousselle (1 Episode) as Self

1969The Sorrow and the Pity (2 Episodes) as Self (archive footage)

1968The Dick Cavett Show (1 Episode) as Self - Guest

1967Monkeys, Go Home! as Father Sylvain

1966ABC Stage 67 (1 Episode) as Self

1964Chance at Love as Self (segment "Les interviews-vérités") (uncredited)

1964I'd Rather Be Rich as Philip Dulaine

1964Panic Button as Fontaine

1963A New Kind of Love as Self

1963Der Sport-Spiegel (1 Episode) as Self

1962In Search of the Castaways as Jacques Paganel

1962The Merv Griffin Show (1 Episode) as Self

1962Jessica as Father Antonio

1962The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe as Self - Host

1961Black Tights as Himself / Narrator

1961Fanny as Panisse

1960Pepe as Maurice Chevalier

1960A Breath of Scandal as Prince Philip

1960Can-Can as Paul Barriere

1959Count Your Blessings as Duc de St. Cloud

1958Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1 Episode) as Unknown

1958Gigi as Honoré Lachaille

1957The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour (1 Episode) as Maurice Chevalier

1957Love in the Afternoon as Claude Chavasse

1956The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1 Episode) as Self

1956Tony Awards (1 Episode) as Self - Recipient

1956Cinépanorama (1 Episode) as Self

1954My Seven Little Sins as Comte André de Courvallon

1954Max Liebman Presents (1 Episode) as Special Guest

1954100 Years of Love as Massimo (segment "Amore 1954")

1953Schlagerparade as himself

1953The Oscars (2 Episodes) as Self

1952This Is Your Life (1 Episode) as Self

1950Just Me as Maurice Vallier aka 'Ma Pomme'

1950What's My Line? (2 Episodes) as Self - Mystery Guest

1950Riviera Dream as Maurice Chevalier

1949A Royal Affair as The King

1948The Ed Sullivan Show (5 Episodes) as Self

1948Paris 1900 as Self (archive footage)

1947Silence Is Golden as Émile Clément

1939Personal Column as Robert Fleury

1938Break the News as François Verrier

1937The Man of the Day as Alfred Boulard

1936With a Smile as Victor Larnois

1936The Beloved Vagabond as Gaston de Nerac 'Paragot'

1936Le Vagabond bien-aimé as Caston de Nerac, Gaston de Nerac

1935Folies Bergère as Eugene Charlier / Baron Cassini

1935Folies Bergère as Eugene Charlier / Baron Fernand Cassini

1934The Merry Widow as Count Danilo

1933The Way to Love as François

1933A Bedtime Story as Monsieur Rene

1932Hollywood on Parade No. A-5 as Self

1932Love Me Tonight as Maurice 'Baron' Courtelin

1932Make Me a Star as Maurice Chevalier (uncredited)

1932One Hour with You as Dr. Andre Bertier

1931Monkey Business as Himself (voice)

1931The Smiling Lieutenant as Lt. Nikolaus 'Niki' von Preyn

1931The House That Shadows Built as (archive footage)

1931The Stolen Jools as Maurice Chevalier

1931The Little Cafe as Albert Lorifian

1930Playboy of Paris as Albert Loriflan

1930The Big Pond as Pierre Mirande

1930Paramount on Parade as Apache

1930The Love Parade as Count Alfred Renard

1929Innocents of Paris as Maurice Marney

1923L'Affaire de la rue de Lourcine as Maurice

1923Par habitude as Maurice

1923Jim Bougne, boxeur as Maurice

1923Bad Boy as Louis-Philippe Massoubre

1923Gonzague as Gonzague / Maurice

1917Une soirée mondaine as Momo

1914The Dwarf Kingdom of Lilliput Versus Gigas the Tall, Prince of the Giants as Unknown

1908La Valse à la mode as Unknown

Sound

1969The Sorrow and the Pity (2 Episodes) ... Songs