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Maurice Chevalier

Index Maurice Chevalier

Maurice Auguste Chevalier (September 12, 1888 – January 1, 1972) was a French actor, cabaret singer and entertainer. [1]

145 relations: A Bedtime Story, A New Kind of Love, A Woman of Paris, Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Honorary Award, Addiction, Adolphe Menjou, Al Lewis (lyricist), Al Sherman, Alcoholism, Alfonso XIII of Spain, Allies of World War II, Audrey Hepburn, Billy Wilder, Black Tights, Boater, Break the News (film), Broadway theatre, Can-Can (film), Cannes, Charles Boyer, Claudette Colbert, Collaborationism, Communism, Count Your Blessings (1959 film), Dédé (opérette), Douglas Fairbanks, Ernst Lubitsch, European theatre of World War II, Fanny (1961 film), Film director, Folies Bergère, Folies Bergère de Paris, Frank Sinatra, Franz Lehár, Fréhel, French language, French Third Republic, Gary Cooper, George Eastman Museum, George Gershwin, Germany, Gigi (1958 film), Grand Order of Water Rats, Hauts-de-Seine, Hermione Gingold, Hit Parade (1953 film), Hollywood, Hollywood Walk of Fame, I'd Rather Be Rich, ..., In Search of the Castaways (film), Innocents of Paris, Irving Berlin, Isn't It Romantic?, Jayne Mansfield, Jazz, Jeanette MacDonald, Jessica (film), Kidney failure, Latin America, Leslie Caron, List of actors with Academy Award nominations, Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight, London, Lorenz Hart, Louis Jourdan, Louise (Maurice Chevalier song), Love in the Afternoon (1957 film), Love Me Tonight, Man About Town (1939 film), Man About Town (1947 film), Maquis (World War II), Marcel Ophüls, Marcel Pagnol, Marnes-la-Coquette, Marseille, Marx Brothers, Mary Pickford, McCarthyism, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Mimi (song), Miriam Hopkins, Mistinguett, Monkey Business (1931 film), Monkeys, Go Home!, Music of France, Musical theatre, My Seven Little Sins, Nazism, New York Friars Club, Nuclear weapon, One Hour with You, Operetta, Palace Theatre, London, Panic Button (1964 film), Paramount on Parade, Paramount Pictures, Paris, Pepe (film), Personal Column (film), Playboy of Paris, Prisoner of war, Radio Paris, Ragtime, René Clair, Richard Rodgers, Roast (comedy), Robert B. Sherman, Rouben Mamoulian, Santa Clarita, California, Sherman Brothers, Shrapnel shell, Sound film, Stars and Stripes (newspaper), Stockholm, Stockholm Appeal, Tex Avery, Thank Heaven for Little Girls, The Aristocats, The Beloved Vagabond (1936 film), The Big Pond, The Jack Benny Program, The Little Cafe (1931 film), The Love Parade, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Man of the Hour, The Merry Widow (1934 film), The Smiling Lieutenant, The Sorrow and the Pity, The Tramp, The Way to Love, Travel visa, Turner Classic Movies, Tuxedo, United States, Valentine (Maurice Chevalier song), Vic Schoen, Walt Disney, Walt's Time, With a Smile (film), World War I, World War II, You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me, Yvonne Vallée, 100 Years of Love. Expand index (95 more) »

A Bedtime Story

A Bedtime Story is a 1933 Franco-American Pre-Code romantic comedy film starring Maurice Chevalier.

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A New Kind of Love

A New Kind of Love is a 1963 American romantic comedy film directed by Melville Shavelson and starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.

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A Woman of Paris

A Woman of Paris is a feature-length American silent film that debuted in 1923.

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Academy Award for Best Actor

The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Honorary Award

The Academy Honorary Award – instituted in 1948 for the 21st Academy Awards (previously called the Special Award, which was first presented in early 1929) – is given annually by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered by existing Academy Awards, although prior winners of competitive Academy Awards are not excluded from receiving the Honorary Award.

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Addiction

Addiction is a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences.

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Adolphe Menjou

Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor.

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Al Lewis (lyricist)

Al Lewis (April 18, 1901April 4, 1967) was an American lyricist, songwriter and music publisher.

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Al Sherman

Al Sherman (September 7, 1897 – September 16, 1973) was an American songwriter active during the Tin Pan Alley era in American music history.

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Alcoholism

Alcoholism, also known as alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a broad term for any drinking of alcohol that results in mental or physical health problems.

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Alfonso XIII of Spain

Alfonso XIII (Spanish: Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941) was King of Spain from 1886 until the proclamation of the Second Republic in 1931.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945).

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Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 192920 January 1993) was a British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian.

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Billy Wilder

Samuel "Billy" Wilder (June 22, 1906March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades.

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Black Tights

Black Tights (1-2-3-4 ou Les Collants noirs) is a 1961 French anthology film featuring four ballet segments shot in Technirama and directed by Terence Young.

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Boater

A boater (also straw boater, basher, skimmer, cady, katie, canotier, somer, sennit hat, or in Japan, can-can hat, suruken) is a kind of summer hat worn by men, regarded as somewhat formal, and particularly popular in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

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Break the News (film)

Break the News is a 1938 British musical comedy film directed by René Clair and starring Jack Buchanan, Maurice Chevalier and June Knight.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Can-Can (film)

Can-Can is a 1960 musical film made by Suffolk-Cummings productions and distributed by 20th Century Fox.

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Cannes

Cannes (Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera.

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Charles Boyer

Charles Boyer (28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978) was a French actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976.

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Claudette Colbert

Claudette Colbert (born Émilie Claudette Chauchoin; September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996) was an American stage and film actress and a leading lady in Hollywood for over two decades, and has been called "The mixture of inimitable beauty, sophistication, wit, and vivacity".

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Collaborationism

Collaborationism is cooperation with the enemy against one's country in wartime.

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Communism

In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.

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Count Your Blessings (1959 film)

Count Your Blessings is a 1959 drama film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Dédé (opérette)

Dédé is an opérette or musical comedy in three acts with music by Henri Christiné and a French libretto by Albert Willemetz.

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Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks (born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman; May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.

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Ernst Lubitsch

Ernst Lubitsch (January 29, 1892November 30, 1947) was a German American film director, producer, writer, and actor.

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European theatre of World War II

The European theatre of World War II, also known as the Second European War, was a huge area of heavy fighting across Europe, from Germany's and the Soviet Union's joint invasion of Poland in September 1939 until the end of the war with the Soviet Union conquering most of Eastern Europe along with the German unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945 (Victory in Europe Day).

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Fanny (1961 film)

Fanny is a 1961 American Technicolor drama film directed by Joshua Logan.

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Film director

A film director is a person who directs the making of a film.

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Folies Bergère

The Folies Bergère is a cabaret music hall, located in Paris, France.

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Folies Bergère de Paris

Folies Bergère de Paris is a 1935 American musical comedy that won at the 8th Academy Awards for the short lived Best Dance Direction category, along with Broadway Melody of 1936.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.

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Franz Lehár

Franz Lehár (italic; 30 April 1870 – 24 October 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian composer.

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Fréhel

Fréhel (born Marguerite Boulc'h; 13 July 1891 – 3 February 1951) was a French singer and actress.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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French Third Republic

The French Third Republic (La Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was the system of government adopted in France from 1870 when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War until 1940 when France's defeat by Nazi Germany in World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government in France.

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Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961) was an American film actor known for his natural, authentic, and understated acting style and screen performances.

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George Eastman Museum

The George Eastman Museum, the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York.

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George Gershwin

George Jacob Gershwin (September 26, 1898 July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Gigi (1958 film)

Gigi is a 1958 American musical-romance film directed by Vincente Minnelli processed using MGM's Metrocolor.

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Grand Order of Water Rats

The Grand Order of Water Rats is a British entertainment industry fraternity and charitable organisation, based in London.

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Hauts-de-Seine

Hauts-de-Seine (literally Seine Heights) is a department of France.

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Hermione Gingold

Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold (9 December 1897 – 24 May 1987) was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric persona.

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Hit Parade (1953 film)

Hit Parade (German: Schlagerparade) is a 1953 West German musical comedy film directed by Erik Ode and starring Germaine Damar, Walter Giller and Nadja Tiller.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame comprises more than 2,600 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California.

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I'd Rather Be Rich

I'd Rather Be Rich is a 1964 romantic comedy film with musical aspects directed by Jack Smight, produced by Ross Hunter and starring Sandra Dee.

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In Search of the Castaways (film)

In Search of the Castaways is a 1962 Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier in a tale about a worldwide search for a shipwrecked sea captain.

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Innocents of Paris

Innocents of Paris is a 1929 black and white American musical film.

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Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin (Израиль Моисеевич Бейлин) Ministry of Culture, Russian Federation – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.

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Isn't It Romantic?

"Isn't It Romantic?" is a popular song and part of the Great American Songbook.

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Jayne Mansfield

Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jane Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American film, theater, and television actress.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jeanette MacDonald

Jeanette Anna MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (The Love Parade, Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow and One Hour With You) and Nelson Eddy (Naughty Marietta, Rose-Marie, and Maytime).

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Jessica (film)

Jessica is a 1962 film directed by Jean Negulesco.

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Kidney failure

Kidney failure, also known as end-stage kidney disease, is a medical condition in which the kidneys no longer work.

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Latin America

Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.

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Leslie Caron

Leslie Claire Margaret Caron (born 1 July 1931) is a Franco-American actress and dancer who appeared in 45 films between 1951 and 2003.

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List of actors with Academy Award nominations

This list of actors with Academy Award nominations includes all male and female actors with Academy Award nominations for lead and supporting roles in motion pictures, and the total nominations and wins for each actor.

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Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight

"Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight" is a popular song that was written by Al Sherman and Al Lewis for the 1930 film, The Big Pond starring Maurice Chevalier, who made it famous.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lorenz Hart

Lorenz Milton Hart (May 2, 1895 – November 22, 1943) was the lyricist and librettist half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart.

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Louis Jourdan

Louis Jourdan (born Louis Robert Gendre; 19 June 1921 – 14 February 2015) was a French film and television actor.

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Louise (Maurice Chevalier song)

"Louise" is a song written by Leo Robin & Richard A. Whiting for the 1929 film Innocents of Paris, where it was performed by Maurice Chevalier.

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Love in the Afternoon (1957 film)

Love in the Afternoon is a 1957 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder which stars Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper.

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Love Me Tonight

Love Me Tonight is a 1932 American pre-Code musical comedy film produced and directed by Rouben Mamoulian, with music by Rodgers and Hart.

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Man About Town (1939 film)

Man About Town is a 1939 musical comedy film starring Jack Benny and Dorothy Lamour.

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Man About Town (1947 film)

Man About Town (original title: Le Silence est d'or - "Silence is golden") is a 1947 French-American film written and directed by René Clair.

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Maquis (World War II)

The Maquis were rural guerrilla bands of French Resistance fighters, called maquisards, during the Occupation of France in World War II.

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Marcel Ophüls

Marcel Ophuls (born 1 November 1927) is a documentary film maker and former actor, best known for his films The Sorrow and the Pity and Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie.

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Marcel Pagnol

Marcel Pagnol (28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker.

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Marnes-la-Coquette

Marnes-la-Coquette (pronounced) is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France.

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Marseille

Marseille (Provençal: Marselha), is the second-largest city of France and the largest city of the Provence historical region.

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Marx Brothers

The Marx Brothers were an American family comedy act that was successful in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in motion pictures from 1905 to 1949.

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Mary Pickford

Gladys Louise Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-born film actress and producer.

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McCarthyism

McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Mimi (song)

"Mimi" is a popular song written by Richard Rodgers, with words by Lorenz Hart.

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Miriam Hopkins

Ellen Miriam Hopkins (October 18, 1902 – October 9, 1972) was an American actress known for her versatility.

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Mistinguett

Mistinguett (3 April 1875 – 5 January 1956) was a French actress and singer, whose birth name was Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois.

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Monkey Business (1931 film)

Monkey Business is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy film.

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Monkeys, Go Home!

Monkeys, Go Home! is a 1967 Disney film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen.

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Music of France

The music of France reflects a diverse array of styles.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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My Seven Little Sins

My Seven Little Sins (J'avais sept filles, I sette peccati di papà), released in UK as I Had Seven Daughters, is a 1954 French-Italian comedy film co-written and directed by Jean Boyer and starring Maurice Chevalier and Delia Scala.

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Nazism

National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.

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New York Friars Club

The Friars Club is a private club in New York City, founded in 1904 that hosts risqué celebrity roasts.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).

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One Hour with You

One Hour with You is a 1932 American pre-Code musical comedy film about a married couple who find themselves attracted to other people.

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Operetta

Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter.

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Palace Theatre, London

The Palace Theatre is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster in London.

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Panic Button (1964 film)

Panic Button is 1964 low-budget Italian-produced comedy film starring, Maurice Chevalier, Eleanor Parker, Jayne Mansfield, and Mike Connors.

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Paramount on Parade

Paramount on Parade is a 1930 all-star American pre-Code revue released by Paramount Pictures, directed by several directors including Edmund Goulding, Dorothy Arzner, Ernst Lubitsch, Rowland V. Lee, A. Edward Sutherland, Lothar Mendes, Otto Brower, Edwin H. Knopf, Frank Tuttle, and Victor Schertzinger—all supervised by the production supervisor, singer, actress, and songwriter Elsie Janis.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Pepe (film)

Pepe is a 1960 musical comedy film starring Cantinflas in the title role, directed by George Sidney.

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Personal Column (film)

Personal Column (Pièges) is a 1939 French drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Renoir, Marie Déa and Erich von Stroheim.

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Playboy of Paris

Playboy of Paris is a 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Maurice Chevalier, Frances Dee (in her film debut), and O.P. Heggie.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Radio Paris

Radio Paris was a French radio broadcasting company best known for its Axis propaganda broadcasts in Vichy France during World War II.

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Ragtime

Ragtime – also spelled rag-time or rag time – is a musical style that enjoyed its peak popularity between 1895 and 1918.

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René Clair

René Clair (11 November 1898 – 15 March 1981) born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker and writer.

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Richard Rodgers

Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer of music, with over 900 songs and 43 Broadway musicals, leaving a legacy as one of the most significant composers of 20th century American music.

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Roast (comedy)

A roast is a form of American humor in which a specific individual, a guest of honor, is subjected to jokes at their expense, intended to amuse the event's wider audience.

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Robert B. Sherman

Robert Bernard Sherman (December 19, 1925 – March 6, 2012)Robert B. Sherman IMDB.com Profile> was an American songwriter who specialized in musical films with his brother Richard Morton Sherman.

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Rouben Mamoulian

Rouben Zachary Mamoulian (in Ռուբէն Մամուլեան) (October 8, 1897 – December 4, 1987) was an Armenian-American film and theatre director.

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Santa Clarita, California

Santa Clarita, officially the City of Santa Clarita, is the fourth largest city in Los Angeles County, California, and the 24th largest in the state of California.

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Sherman Brothers

The Sherman Brothers were an American songwriting duo that specialized in musical films, made up of Robert B. Sherman (December 19, 1925 – March 6, 2012) and Richard M. Sherman (born June 12, 1928).

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Shrapnel shell

Shrapnel shells were anti-personnel artillery munitions which carried a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejected them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.

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Sound film

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.

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Stars and Stripes (newspaper)

Stars and Stripes is an American military newspaper that focuses and reports on matters concerning the members of the United States Armed Forces.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Stockholm Appeal

On March 15, 1950, the World Peace Council approved the Stockholm Appeal, calling for an absolute ban on nuclear weapons.

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Tex Avery

Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator, director, cartoonist, and voice actor, known for producing and directing animated cartoons during the golden age of American animation.

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls

"Thank Heaven for Little Girls" is a 1957 song written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe and associated with its original performer, Maurice Chevalier.

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The Aristocats

The Aristocats is a 1970 American animated romantic adventure musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution.

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The Beloved Vagabond (1936 film)

The Beloved Vagabond is a 1936 British musical drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Maurice Chevalier, Betty Stockfeld, Margaret Lockwood and Austin Trevor.

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The Big Pond

The Big Pond is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film based on a 1928 play of the same name by George Middleton and A.E. Thomas.

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The Jack Benny Program

The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, is a radio-TV comedy series that ran for more than three decades and is generally regarded as a high-water mark in 20th-century American comedy.

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The Little Cafe (1931 film)

Le petit café is a 1931 French-language American Pre-Code musical film directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Maurice Chevalier, Yvonne Vallée and Tania Fédor.

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The Love Parade

The Love Parade is a 1929 American pre-Code musical comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, involving the marital difficulties of Queen Louise of Sylvania (MacDonald) and her consort, Count Alfred Renard (Chevalier).

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The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour

The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour is a collection of thirteen black-and-white one-hour specials airing occasionally from 1957 to 1960 (as opposed to a thirty-minute regular series).

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The Man of the Hour

The Man of the Hour (French: L'homme du jour) is a 1937 French musical film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Maurice Chevalier, Elvire Popesco and Josette Day.

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The Merry Widow (1934 film)

The Merry Widow is a 1934 film adaptation of the operetta of the same name by Franz Lehár.

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The Smiling Lieutenant

The Smiling Lieutenant is a 1931 American Pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert and Miriam Hopkins, and released by Paramount Pictures.

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The Sorrow and the Pity

The Sorrow and the Pity (Le Chagrin et la Pitié) is a two-part 1969 documentary film by Marcel Ophüls about the collaboration between the Vichy government and Nazi Germany during World War II.

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The Tramp

The Tramp (Charlot in several languages), also known as The Little Tramp, was British actor Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character and an icon in world cinema during the era of silent film.

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The Way to Love

The Way to Love is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic comedy film, starring Maurice Chevalier and Ann Dvorak.

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Travel visa

A visa (from the Latin charta visa, meaning "paper which has been seen") is a conditional authorization granted by a country to a foreigner, allowing them to enter, remain within, or to leave that country.

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Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network operated by Turner Broadcasting System. Launched in 1994, TCM is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. Historically, the channel's programming consisted mainly of classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. Pictures (covering films released before 1950) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986). However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its WarnerMedia sister company, Warner Bros. (which now controls the Turner Entertainment library and its own later films), and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Latin America, France, Spain, the Nordic countries, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

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Tuxedo

A tuxedo (American English), or dinner suit (British English), is a semi-formal three or two piece suit for evening wear, distinguished primarily by satin or grosgrain jacket's lapels, and similar stripes along the outseam of the trousers.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Valentine (Maurice Chevalier song)

"Valentine" is a song by French actor, cabaret singer and entertainer Maurice Chevalier.

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Vic Schoen

Victor "Vic" Schoen (March 26, 1916 – January 5, 2000) was an American bandleader, arranger, and composer whose career spanned from the 1930s until his death in 2000.

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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer.

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Walt's Time

Walt's Time: from before to beyond is a 252-page autobiographical, full-color book by Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman.

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With a Smile (film)

is a 1936 French comedy directed by Maurice Tourneur.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me

"You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" is a 1930 popular song.

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Yvonne Vallée

Yvonne Vallée (February 21, 1899 – June 15, 1996) was a French actress.

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100 Years of Love

100 Years of Love (Cento anni d'amore) is a 1954 Italian anthology film directed by Lionello De Felice.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Chevalier

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