Yves Montand

































Yves Montand

Yves Montand Cannes.jpg
Montand at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

Born
Ivo Livi


(1921-10-13)13 October 1921

Monsummano Terme, Italy

Died 9 November 1991(1991-11-09) (aged 70)

Senlis, France

Occupation Actor, singer
Years active 1946–1991
Spouse(s)

Simone Signoret{{{3}}}
(m. 1951; her death 1985)


Carole Amiel{{{3}}}
(m. 1987; his death 1991)

Children 1

Ivo Livi, better known as Yves Montand (French pronunciation: ​[iv mɔ̃tɑ̃]; 13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991), was an Italian-French actor and singer.




Contents






  • 1 Early life


  • 2 Career


  • 3 Personal life


  • 4 Filmography


  • 5 Discography


  • 6 References


  • 7 External links





Early life


Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, to Giovanni Livi, a broom manufacturer,[1][2][3] and Giuseppina Simoni, a devout Catholic, while her husband held strong Communist beliefs.[1] Montand's family left for France in 1923 because of Italy's Fascist regime.[4] He grew up in Marseille, where, as a young man, he worked in his sister's beauty salon (Salon de Coiffure), and later on the docks. He began a career in show business as a music-hall singer. In 1944, he was discovered by Édith Piaf in Paris and she made him part of her act.[citation needed]



Career


Montand went on to international recognition as a singer and actor, starring in numerous films. His recognizably crooner songs, especially those about Paris, became instant classics. He was one of the most famous performers at Bruno Coquatrix's famous Paris Olympia music hall, and toured with musicians including Didi Duprat. In October 1947, he sang Mais qu'est-ce que j'ai ? (music by Henri Betti and lyrics by Édith Piaf) at the Théâtre de l'Étoile. Betti also asked him to sing C'est si bon but Montand refused. Following the success of the recording of this song by the Sœurs Étienne in 1948, he decided to record it.


During his career, Montand acted in a number of American motion pictures as well as on Broadway. He was nominated for a César Award for "Best Actor" in 1980 for I comme Icare and again in 1984 for Garçon! In 1986, after his international box-office draw power had fallen off considerably, the 65-year-old Montand gave one of his most memorable performances, as the scheming uncle in the two-part film Jean de Florette, co-starring Gérard Depardieu, and Manon des Sources, co-starring Emmanuelle Béart. The film was a worldwide critical hit and raised Montand's profile in the US, where he made an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman.[5]



Personal life


In 1951, he married Simone Signoret, and they co-starred in several films throughout their careers. The marriage was, by all accounts, fairly harmonious, lasting until her death in 1985, although Montand had a number of well-publicized affairs, notably with Marilyn Monroe, with whom he starred in one of her last films, Let's Make Love. He was the stepfather to Signoret’s daughter from her prior marriage, Catherine Allégret.


Montand's only child, Valentin, his son by his second wife, Carole Amiel, was born in 1988. In a paternity suit that rocked France, another woman accused Montand of being the father of her daughter and went to court to obtain a DNA sample from him. Montand refused, but the woman persisted after his death. In a court ruling that made international headlines, the woman won the right to have Montand exhumed and a sample taken.[6] The results indicated that he was probably not the girl's biological father.[7]


Signoret and Montand had a home in Autheuil-Authouillet, Normandy, where the main village street is named after him.


In his later years he maintained a home in St Paul de Vence, Provence, until his death from a heart attack.[8] In an interview, Jean-Jacques Beineix said, "[H]e died on the set [of IP5: The Island of Pachyderms]... On the very last day, after his very last shot. It was the very last night and we were doing retakes. He finished what he was doing and then he just died. And the film tells the story of an old man who dies from a heart attack, which is the same thing that happened!"[9] Montand is interred next to his first wife, Simone Signoret, in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.


In 2004, Catherine Allegret, Signoret's daughter, alleged in her autobiography "Un Monde a L'envers" (A World Upside Down), that she had been sexually abused by her stepfather at the age of five[10] and that he had a "more than equivocal attitude to her" as she got older.[11] However she also claimed to have been reconciled to him in the latter years of his life.[12]



Filmography




Yves Montand as Formula One driver Jean-Pierre Sarti in Grand Prix, 1966

































































































































































































































































































































































































































Year
Title
Role
Director
Notes
1941

La Prière aux étoiles
Un gars dans le café

Marcel Pagnol
Uncredited
1946

Star Without Light
Pierre

Marcel Blistène


Gates of the Night
Jean Diego

Marcel Carné

1948

L'idole
Fontana

Alexander Esway

1950

Souvenirs perdus [fr]
Raoul

Christian-Jaque
(segment "Le violon")
1951

The Red Inn
Singing Commentator
Claude Autant-Lara
Voice

Paris Is Always Paris
Himself

Luciano Emmer

cameo appearance

Paris Still Sings
Himself

Pierre Montazel

1953

Le salaire de la peur
Mario

Henri-Georges Clouzot


Saluti e baci
Himself

Maurice Labro and Giorgio Simonelli
Uncredited
1954

Tempi Nostri
Vasco

Alessandro Blasetti and Paul Paviot

1955

Napoléon

François Joseph Lefebvre

Sacha Guitry


Heroes and Sinners
Michel Rivière

Yves Ciampi


Marguerite de la nuit
Monsieur Léon

Claude Autant-Lara

1957

The Wolves
Ricuccio

Giuseppe De Santis


Les Sorcières de Salem

John Proctor

Raymond Rouleau


La grande strada azzurra
Giovanni Squarciò

Gillo Pontecorvo

1958

Premier mai [fr]
Jean Meunier

Luis Saslavsky

1959

Legge, La
Matteo Brigante

Jules Dassin

1960

Let's Make Love
Clement / Dumas

George Cukor

1961

Sanctuary
Candy Man

Tony Richardson


Goodbye Again
Roger Demarest

Anatole Litvak

1962

My Geisha
Paul Robaix

Jack Cardiff

1963

Le Joli Mai
Narrator

Chris Marker

1965

Compartiment tueurs
Inspector Grazziani

Costa-Gavras

1966

La guerre est finie
Diego Mora
Alain Resnais


Is Paris Burning?
Sgt. Marcel Bizien

René Clément


Grand Prix
Jean- Pierre Sarti

John Frankenheimer

1967

Vivre pour vivre
Robert Colomb

Claude Lelouch

1968

Mr. Freedom
Captain Formidable

William Klein
cameo appearance, Uncredited

Un soir, un train
Mathias

André Delvaux

1969

Le Diable par la queue [fr]
Baron César Maricorne

Philippe de Broca


Z

Grigoris Lambrakis
Costa-Gavras

1970

L'Aveu
Gérard
Costa-Gavras


On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Marc Chabot

Vincente Minnelli


Le Cercle Rouge
Jansen

Jean-Pierre Melville

1971

La folie des grandeurs
Blaze

Gérard Oury

1972

Tout va bien
"The Director"

Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin


César et Rosalie
César

Claude Sautet


État de Siège
Philip Michael Santore
Costa-Gavras

1973

Le Fils [fr]
Ange Orahona

Pierre Granier-Deferre

1974

Chance and Violence
Laurent Bermann

Philippe Labro


Vincent, François, Paul...et les autres
Vincent
Claude Sautet

1975

Section spéciale
Un milicien
Costa-Gavras
Uncredited

Le Sauvage
Martin

Jean-Paul Rappeneau

1976

Police Python 357
Inspecteur Marc Ferrot

Alain Corneau


Le Grand Escogriffe
Morland

Claude Pinoteau


A Butterfly in the Night
Himself

Armando Bó
Voice
1977

La Menace
Henri Savin

Alain Corneau


Le fond de l'air est rouge
Narrator
Chris Marker


Jacques Prévert
Himself
Jean Desvilles

1978

Roads to the South
Jean Larrea

Joseph Losey

1979

Clair de femme
Michel Follin
Costa-Gavras


I as in Icarus
Henri Volney

Henri Verneuil

1981

Le Choix des armes
Noël Durieux
Alain Corneau

1982

Tout feu, tout flamme
Victor Valance

Jean-Paul Rappeneau

1983

Garçon!
Alex
Claude Sautet

1986

Jean de Florette
César Soubeyran

Claude Berri


Manon des Sources

1988

Trois places pour le 26
Himself

Jacques Demy

1991

Netchaïev est de retour [fr]
Pierre Marroux

Jacques Deray

1992

IP5: L'île aux pachydermes [fr]
Léon Marcel

Jean-Jacques Beineix
(final film role)


Discography




  • 1952: Chante (Odéon)

  • 1953: Chante ses dernières créations (Odéon)

  • 1953: Chante Paris (Odéon)

  • 1953: Récital au Théâtre de l'Étoile 1953 (Odéon, live)

  • 1954: Chante ses derniers succès (Odéon)

  • 1954: # 54 (Odéon)

  • 1955: Chansons populaires de France (Odéon)

  • 1957: 13 ans déjà ! (Odéon)

  • 1958: Dix chansons pour l'été (Odéon)

  • 1958: Succès du Récital 1958 au Théâtre de L'Étoile (Odéon)

  • 1958: Récital 1 + Récital 2 (Philips)

  • 1958: Étoile 58 (Philips)

  • 1960: Dansez avec Yves Montand (Philips)

  • 1961: Rengaine ta rengaine (Philips)

  • 1962: Chante Prévert (Philips)

  • 1962: Récital 63 – Intégral du Théâtre de l'Étoile (Philips, live)

  • 1967: 7 (Philips)

  • 1968: La Bicyclette (Philips)

  • 1968: Le Paris de... (Philips)

  • 1968: À l'Olympia (Philips, live)

  • 1970: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Columbia, soundtrack with Barbra Streisand)

  • 1972: Dans son dernier "One man show" intégral (CBS, live)

  • 1974: Montand de mon temps (CBS or TriStar Music)

  • 1981: D'hier et d'aujourd'hui (Philips)

  • 1981: Le disque de la paix (Philips)

  • 1982: Olympia 81 (Philips)

  • 1983: In English (Philips)

  • 1984: Chante David Mc Neil (Philips)

  • 1988: Trois places pour le 26 (Philips, w/ Mathilda May, soundtrack)

  • 1993: Les années Odéon – 1945–1958 (Columbia, 9-CD boxset)

  • 1997: Plaisirs inédits (Universal)

  • 2000: Et la fête continue – Intégrale 1945–1949 – Vol. 1 (Frémeaux)

  • 2001: Inédits, rares & indispensables (Mercury, 4-CD boxset)

  • 2004: Sensationnel – Intégrale 1949–1953 – Vol. 2 (Frémeaux)

  • 2007: Une étoile à l'Étoile – Intégrale 1953–1954 – Vol. 3 (Frémeaux, live)




References





  1. ^ ab Montand, Yves; Hervé Hamon; Patrick Rotman (1992). You see, I haven't forgotten. Knopf. pp. 4–30. ISBN 0679410120..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Rosen, Marjorie (25 November 1991). "Adieu, Yves". People. 36 (20).


  3. ^ "Yves Montand – Obituary". The Telegraph. 11 November 1991.


  4. ^ Hodgson, Moira (5 September 1982). "Yves Montand – From The Music Hall to the Met". The New York Times.


  5. ^ "Late Night with David Letterman (a Guest Stars & Air Dates Guide)". Retrieved 14 May 2013.


  6. ^ "Body of Entertainer Montand Exhumed". Los Angeles Times. 12 March 1998. Retrieved 20 August 2012.


  7. ^ Rachel G. Fuchs (2008). Contested Paternity: Constructing Families in Modern France. JHU Press. p. 272. ISBN 0801898161.


  8. ^ Yves Montand. Internet Movie Database


  9. ^ "The Return of Jean-Jacques Beineix, Pt. II", Video Business, 5 June 2009. Retrieved 17 June 2009.


  10. ^ "Actress says cinema idol stepfather abused her". The Irish Independent. 30 September 2004. Retrieved 10 January 2015.


  11. ^ Catherine Allegret details her relations with Montand L'Obs, 1 October 2004 (French); retrieved 19 October 2017


  12. ^ Interview with Catherin Allegret Psychologie, October 2004 (French); retrieved 19 October 2017




External links








  • International Jose Guillermo Carrillo Foundation


  • Yves Montand on IMDb


  • Yves Montand at the Internet Broadway Database Edit this at Wikidata


  • Yves Montand at Find a Grave















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