Cast

Yves Montand

Acting

Cast

Yves Montand

Known for

Acting

Born

1921-10-13

From

Monsummano Terme, Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy

Died

1991-11-09

Also known as Ivo Livi, Yves Livi, Yves Montant

Biography

Ivo Livi (13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991), better known as Yves Montand, was an Italian-born French actor and singer. He is said to be one of France's greatest 20th-century artists. Montand was born Ivo Livi in Stignano, a small village in the hills of Monsummano Terme, Italy, to Giovanni Livi, a broom manufacturer. Montand's mother Giuseppina Simoni was a devout Catholic. The family left Italy for France in 1923 following fascist Benito Mussolini's rise to power. He grew up in Marseille, where, as a young man, he worked in his sister's beauty salon (Salon de Coiffure), as well as 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; she made him part of her act. Montand achieved international recognition as a singer and actor, starring in many films. He is recognised for crooner style songs, with those about Paris becoming instant classics. He was one of the best known performers at Bruno Coquatrix's 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. Montand was also very popular in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, where he did a concert tour in 1956-57. During his career, Montand acted in 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 best remembered performances, as the scheming uncle in Jean de Florette, co-starring Gérard Depardieu, and Manon des Sources (both 1986), co-starring Emmanuelle Béart. The film was a worldwide critical hit and revived Montand's profile in the United States, where he made an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman. 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-publicised affairs, notably with American actress Marilyn Monroe, with whom he starred in one of her final films, Let's Make Love. He was the stepfather to Signoret's daughter from her previous marriage, Catherine Allégret. Montand's only child, a son named Valentin, by his second wife, Carole Amiel (b. 1960), was born in 1988. In a paternity suit that caused commotion across 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. The results indicated that he was not the girl's biological father. He supported left-wing causes during the 1950s and 1960s, and attended Communist festivals and meetings. ... Source: Article "Yves Montand" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Yves Montand

Yves Montand

Biography

J'ai tout donné

La Menace

Le Cercle Rouge

The Wages of Fear

Is Paris Burning?

Manon of the Spring

Django Reinhardt

Jean de Florette

Let's Make Love

Napoleon

Les Deux mémoires

Hollywood Invasion

Cesar and Rosalie

Z

Grand Prix

Delusions of Grandeur

Rotterdam-Europoort

All Fired Up

State of Siege

The Sleeping Car Murders

Goodbye Again

Choice of Arms

The Witches of Salem

I... for Icarus

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

Special Section

The Lovely Month of May

Police Python 357

Lovers Like Us

The Red Inn

The Incredible Mr. Piccoli

Morceaux de Cannes

Yves Montand is Singing

Womanlight

My Geisha

Marguerite of the Night

Waiter!

Star Without Light

Claude Sautet, Romy, Yves, Michel et les autres

Romy, A Free Woman

The Anatomy of Love

The Law

Paris Still Sings!

The Devil by the Tail

Live for Life

One Night... a Train

The Wide Blue Road

The War Is Over

Nostalgia for the Future

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

Three Seats for the 26th

A Grin Without a Cat

Vive la crise !

Trintignant by Trintignant

Tout Va Bien

Marilyn, a woman of today

Marilyn Monroe: In The Movies

Netchayev is Back

IP5: The Island of Pachyderms

The Big Operator

Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mystérieux et insaisissable

Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others

Paris Is Always Paris

Sanctuary

Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still

T'es fou Marcel

Chance and Violence

Rush - Voyage à Moscou

The Confession

Gates of the Night

Les Rois de la comédie

Premier mai

Pushing the Limit: The Making of Grand Prix

The End of a Beautiful Epoch

The Wind Rose

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