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Yves MONTAND

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Yves Montand, whose real name Ivo Livi, born October 13, 1921 in Monsummano Alto, Tuscany, in Italy as Benito Mussolini's fascist will next year. The son of Giovanni and Giuseppina Livi was born into a family, working and he reveres and activist who gives it the cult of communism. It is the latest in a family of three children, his sister Lydia and her older brother Giuliano (Julian), being born in 1915 and 1917. Livi family is not of Jewish origin. The resemblance of Livi with Levy explains the confusion (see the "Nostalgia is not what it was" Simone Signoret). In 1923, he has only two years old when his family emigrated to France and settled in the slums of Marseilles to escape Fascist Italy. His father founded a small family factory brooms, and his two eldest left school early to earn a living as a hairdresser for Lydia, and as a waiter in and staunch communist for his brother Julian. It was a physically difficult childhood and higher is considered an "immigrant wop". He is passionate about cinema, American musicals, especially the tap dancing of his idol Fred Astaire. In 1929, the family gets Livi French nationality. In 1932, his father Giovanni goes bankrupt his small factory. Ivo then aged 11, and must go to work at the factory. At 14, he worked as an apprentice in the salon for ladies working where his sister Lydia, and spends a CAP barber successfully. In 1938, at age 17, he accepts a job as a driver of a cabaret hall music hall of Marseille, before singing imitations of Charles Trenet, Maurice Chevalier or Fernandel, and his song In the plains of Far West, under the artist name "Yves Montand", he chose that name in memory of his mother, a mixture of Italian and French: "Ivo, ascended". His enormous talent as a performer, his charm worthy of the greatest seducers and his stage antics of music hall perfectionist assure him an instant hit with the public. He performed in the cabarets of Marseille and the region to occur before June 21, 1939 at the Alcazar, and then at the Odeon, temples institutional music hall of Marseille, with a booming success. In 1939, the Second World War broke out and he finds himself CARRYING man to "sites of Provence", from which he fled to Paris in spring 1941, to avoid being sent to Germany to labor service (POTS). It happens to ABC in February with the same success in Marseille, then Bobino, the Folies-Belleville, and the famous Moulin Rouge, where he spent the first part of Edith Piaf. It's love at first sight between the two artists, and Edith Piaf already famous and admired, man-eater, undertook to introduce his new lover to the ropes, to the artist's life. She introduced him to important people of the time the entertainment world, such as Joseph Kosma, Henri Crolla, Gasté Loulou, Jean Guigo, Henri Contet, Louiguy, Marguerite Monnot, Philip Gerard, Bob Castella, Francis Lemarque, etc.. In 1945, Montand is a star of music hall and passes featured at Theatre de l'Etoile in Paris. He began a career as an actor. It debuted successfully alongside Edith Piaf in Star without light, and in the doors of the night by Marcel Carné, where it binds to an important career as movie actor. After Moulin Rouge, he left with Edith Piaf on tour until 1946 when they split. In 1948, a friend took him to St. Paul de Vence on the Riviera, where he became a regular summer the Auberge de la Colombe d'Or and where he met Jacques Prévert and Simone Signoret in 1949. The lightning is instantaneous. Simone Signoret immediately abandons her husband, director Yves Allegret with whom she has a daughter Catherine Allegret to live with Montand and his daughter, Place Dauphine in Paris. On 22 December 1951, they marry and become one of the couples most of the entertainment media French. In 1952, Henri-Georges Clouzot offers him his first major film role with the Wages of Fear. The film was awarded the Grand Prize at Cannes 1953. In 1954, the couple bought a property in Normandy Authouillet Autheuil-which became a center for artistic and intellectual which run regularly Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Serge Reggiani, Pierre Brasseur, Luis Bunuel, Jorge Semprun. The couple is campaigning for his communist outlook is labeled "fellow travelers" of the French Communist Party (PCF). In 1954, they play in the play's writer Arthur Miller's The Crucible with such success that the play is performed until Christmas 1955. In 1959, Montand began a triumphant tour in the U.S. on Broadway in New York where he returned in 1961 and 1963, and directed several music hall tours worldwide. In 1956, Montand is poised to begin a tour of music halls in the USSR on October 23 when Russian tanks invaded Budapest in Hungary (Budapest uprising). He nevertheless decides to sing in front of the Russians in Moscow where he met Russian President Nikita Khrushchev that he personally questioned, during a private meeting for four hours, the causes of the invasion of Budapest. In 1957, he undertook a successful tour performing in all the countries of Eastern Europe from where he returned with Simone Signoret deeply disillusioned and disappointed by what he saw the practical application of communism in these countries. His political bias is above all profoundly original paternal, filial and family, he has great difficulty in refuting this title. In 1959, Montand gained star status with an international tour in the U.S., where he met with Signoret, Arthur Miller and his wife Marilyn Monroe, then in Canada and Japan. It runs in the 1960 Hollywood film The Billionaire George Cukor with Marilyn Monroe, with whom he has a romance in the spotlight of the international press that breaks definitively part of Signoret's confidence in herself and in her relationship. She then proceeds to destroy inexorably slow fire to liquor Yves Montand is, in turn, an unrepentant seducer of woman desired by thousands of women. Montand returned to the United States in 1961 at the Golden Theater on Broadway in New York and then in Japan and England as one of the artists music hall hit the best known of the planet. From 1964 he devoted himself to his passion for cinema and no longer mounts on stage that in episodic. It rotates with Costa Gavras, Alain Resnais, Rene ClementIn 1968, civic engagement takes a turn decidedly anti-communist after the crushing of the Prague Spring, which causes it to break with its past commitments. In the 1980s, Montand activist for human rights, and undertakes in favor of the Polish trade union Solidarity Lech Wa??sa in Dec. 1981. In September 1985 he was deeply touched by the death of Simone Signoret 64 years old during the filming of Manon des Sources Claude Berri from Marcel Pagnol. He then put his career at half-mast. He was then an affair with his assistant, Carole Amiel who was recruited for the 1982 tour. She gave birth Dec. 31, 1988 to Valentin Montand, her first child, when he was 67 years old. Tombstone of Simone Signoret and Yves Montand in the Pere Lachaise cemetery in ParisThe November 9, 1991, he died of a heart attack at age 70 the day after we finished shooting the film by Jean-Jacques IP5 Beineix film in which his character dies at the end of a heart attack. Has been shot after a final fitting for the film, he experienced discomfort. "I know I'm done but it does not matter, I had a very good life," he said in an ambulance. For the purposes of the screenplay, he had bathed in late September in a frozen lake in the Oise at Senlis. He died at the hospital in Senlis and is buried in the cemetery of Pere-Lachaise in Paris with his first wife Simone Signoret.
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cover LA BICYCLETTE Robert Martin
LA BICYCLETTE
Yves MONTAND/Jean-Philippe ICHARD
Publisher : Robert Martin
Genre : Orchestra
Group : Junior orchestra
Set Wind Band (MONT05278-BA) : 100,29
Full score (MONT05278-CO) : 27,96

cover Yves Montand Robert Martin
Yves Montand
Yves MONTAND
Arr : Thierry MULLER
Publisher : Robert Martin
Genre : Orchestra
Group : Wind band
Style & options : French light music
Set Wind Band (MONT04943-BA) : 169,08
Full score (MONT04943-CO) : 44,73

cover Yves Montand à l'Olympia Robert Martin
Yves Montand à l'Olympia
Yves MONTAND
Arr : John BRIVER
Publisher : Robert Martin
Genre : Orchestra
Group : Wind band
Style & options : French light music
Set Wind Band (MONT02360-BA) : 169,08
Full score (MONT02360-CO) : 44,73