Yves Montand
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Yves Montand | |
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Born | Ivo Livi 13 October 1921 |
Died | 9 November 1991 | (aged 70)
Occupation(s) | Actor, singer |
Years active | 1946–1991 |
Spouse | |
Partner | Carole Amiel (1987–1991) |
Children | 1 |
Relatives | Jean-Louis Livi (nephew) |
Ivo Livi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈiːvo ˈliːvi], better known as Yves Montand, French: [iv mɔ̃tɑ̃]; 13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991) was an Italian-born French actor and singer. He is said to be one of France's greatest 20th-century artists.[1]
Early life
Montand was born Ivo Livi in
Career
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Montand achieved international recognition as a singer and actor, starring in many films. His recognizably
During his career, Montand acted in American motion pictures as well as on
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 (b. 1960), 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 even after his death. In a court ruling that made international headlines, the woman won the right to have Montand exhumed and a sample taken.[7] The results indicated that he was probably not the girl's biological father.[8]
He supported left-wing causes during the 1950s and 1960s, and attended
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 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Provence, until his death from a heart attack in November 1991.[10] 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!"[11] Montand is interred next to his first wife, Simone Signoret, in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
In 2004, Catherine Allégret, Signoret's daughter from her first marriage to director Yves Allégret, alleged in her autobiography Un monde a l'envers (A World Upside Down) that she had been sexually abused by her stepfather from the age of five; his behaviour apparently continuing for many years.[12] and that he had a "more than equivocal attitude to her" as she got older.[13] However she also claimed to have been reconciled to him in the latter years of his life.[14]
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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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 | Lost Souvenirs | 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 (The Wages of Fear)
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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 | |
The Heroes Are Tired | Michel Rivière | Yves Ciampi | ||
Marguerite de la nuit | Monsieur Léon | Claude Autant-Lara | ||
1957 | The Wolves | Ricuccio | Giuseppe De Santis | |
Les Sorcières de Salem
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John Proctor
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Raymond Rouleau | ||
La grande strada azzurra
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Giovanni Squarciò | Gillo Pontecorvo | ||
1958 | Premier mai
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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
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Diego Mora | Alain Resnais | |
Is Paris Burning? | Sgt. Marcel Bizien | René Clément | ||
Grand Prix | Jean- Pierre Sarti | John Frankenheimer | ||
1967 | Vivre pour vivre
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Robert Colomb | Claude Lelouch | |
1968 | Mr. Freedom | Captain Formidable | William Klein | cameo appearance, Uncredited |
Un soir, un train
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Mathias | André Delvaux | ||
1969 | The Devil by the Tail | Baron César Maricorne | Philippe de Broca | |
Z | Grigoris Lambrakis | Costa-Gavras | ||
1970 | L'Aveu
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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
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Blaze | Gérard Oury | |
1972 | Tout va bien
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"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 | Ange Orahona | Pierre Granier-Deferre | |
1974 | Chance and Violence | Laurent Bermann | Philippe Labro | |
Vincent, François, Paul...et les autres
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Vincent | Claude Sautet | ||
1975 | Section spéciale
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Un milicien | Costa-Gavras | Uncredited |
Le Sauvage
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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
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Narrator | Chris Marker | ||
Jacques Prévert | Himself | Jean Desvilles | ||
1978 | Roads to the South | Jean Larrea | Joseph Losey | |
1979 | Clair de femme
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Michel Follin | Costa-Gavras | |
I as in Icarus | Henri Volney | Henri Verneuil | ||
1981 | Le Choix des armes
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Noël Durieux | Alain Corneau | |
1982 | Tout feu, tout flamme
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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
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Himself | Jacques Demy | |
1991 | Netchaïev est de retour | Pierre Marroux | Jacques Deray | |
1992 | IP5: L'île aux pachydermes | 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)
- 1959: One Man Show (Columbia)
- 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
- ^ "«Montand est à nous»: le siècle d'Ivo Livi". France tv & vous (in French). 11 October 2021. Archived from the original on 13 October 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
- ISBN 0679410120.
- ^ Rosen, Marjorie (25 November 1991). "Adieu, Yves". People. 36 (20). Archived from the original on 5 February 2009. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
- ^ Hodgson, Moira (5 September 1982). "Yves Montand – From the Music Hall to the Met". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
- S2CID 242402774.
- ^ "Late Night with David Letterman (a Guest Stars & Air Dates Guide)". 17 June 1987. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
- ^ "Body of Entertainer Montand Exhumed". Los Angeles Times. 12 March 1998. Retrieved 20 August 2012.
- ISBN 978-0801898167.
- ^ Meisler, Stanley (1 October 1985). "French Actress Simone Signoret Dies at 64". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ "Yves Montand - Biography". IMDb. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
- ^ "The Return of Jean-Jacques Beineix, Pt. II". www.videobusiness.com. 5 June 2009. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
- ^ Bremnerin, Charles (30 September 2004). "Actress says cinema idol stepfather abused her". Irish Independent. The Times (London). Retrieved 20 November 2013.
- L'Obs(in French). 1 October 2004. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
- ^ Mathieu, Hélène (6 February 2009). "Catherine Allégret : « Cette vérité, c'est à moi de la dire »". Psychologies.com (in French). Retrieved 30 July 2023.
External links
- International Jose Guillermo Carrillo Foundation
- Yves Montand at IMDb
- Yves Montand at the Internet Broadway Database
- Yves Montand discography at Discogs
- Yves Montand at Find a Grave