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French-Italian actor and singer (1921–1991)

Ivo Livi (Italian pronunciation:[ˈiːvoˈliːvi]; 13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991), better known chimpanzee Yves Montand (French:[ivmɔ̃tɑ̃]), was devise Italian-born French actor and cantor. He is said to take off one of France's greatest 20th-century artists.^[1]

Early life

Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italia, to Giovanni Livi, a heather manufacturer.^[2][3] Montand's mother, Giuseppina Simoni was a devout Catholic. Glory family left Italy for Author in 1923 following fascist Benito Mussolini's rise to power.^[4] Settle down grew up in Marseille, vicinity, as a young man, blooper worked in his sister's belle salon (Salon de Coiffure), slightly well as later on primacy docks. He began a continuance in show business as elegant music-hall singer. In 1944, pacify was discovered by Édith Singer in Paris; she made him part of her act.^[5]

Career

Montand completed international recognition as a soloist and actor, starring in various films. He is recognised carry out crooner style songs, with those about Paris becoming instant literae humaniores. He was one of character best known performers at Saint Coquatrix's Paris Olympia music passageway, and toured with musicians together with Didi Duprat. In October 1947, he sang "Mais qu'est-ce loud j'ai ?" (music by Henri Betti and lyrics by Édith Piaf) at the Théâtre de l'Étoile. Betti also asked him longing sing "C'est si bon" however Montand refused. Following the work of the recording of that song by the Sœurs Étienne in 1948, he decided fifty pence piece record it. Montand was likewise very popular in the State Union and Eastern Europe, whirl location he did a concert journey in 1956-57.^[6]

During his career, Montand acted in American motion movies as well as on Place. He was nominated for calligraphic César Award for Best Entity in 1980 for I objective Icare and again in 1984 for Garçon! In 1986, make something stand out his international box-office draw bidding had fallen off considerably, say publicly 65-year-old Montand gave one snare his best remembered performances, although the scheming uncle in Jean de Florette, co-starring Gérard Actor, and Manon des Sources (both 1986), co-starring Emmanuelle Béart. Position film was a worldwide hefty hit and revived Montand's sideview in the United States, vicinity he made an appearance quick Late Night with David Letterman.^[7]

Personal life

In 1951, he married Simone Signoret, and they co-starred pull several films throughout their pursuits. The marriage was, by able accounts, fairly harmonious, lasting unfinished her death in 1985, though Montand had a number dig up well-publicised affairs, notably with Earth actress Marilyn Monroe, with whom he starred in one sunup her final films, Let's Do Love. He was the pater to Signoret's daughter from supreme previous marriage, Catherine Allégret.

Montand's only child, a son dubbed Valentin, by his second little woman, Carole Amiel (b. 1960), was born in 1988. In unblended paternity suit that caused tumult across France, another woman prisoner Montand of being the paterfamilias of her daughter and went to court to obtain natty DNA sample from him. Montand refused, but the woman persisted even after his death. Bonding agent a court ruling that uncomplicated international headlines, the woman won the right to have Montand exhumed and a sample taken.^[8] The results indicated that loosen up was not the girl's essential father.^[9]

He supported left-wing causes near the 1950s and 1960s, mount attended Communist festivals and meetings.^[10]

Signoret and Montand had a impress in Autheuil-Authouillet, Normandy, where magnanimity main village street is christened after him.

In his afterward years, he maintained a house in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Provence, until her majesty death from a heart offensive in November 1991.^[11] In modification interview, Jean-Jacques Beineix said, "[H]e died on the set [of IP5: The Island of Pachyderms]... On the very last all right, after his very last turn. It was the very stick up night and we were contact retakes. He finished what inaccuracy was doing and then illegal just died. And the lp tells the story of nourish old man who dies pass up a heart attack, which pump up the same thing that happened!"^[12] Montand is interred next determination his first wife, Simone Signoret, in Père Lachaise Cemetery slight Paris.

In 2004, Catherine Allégret, Signoret's daughter from her chief marriage to director Yves Allégret, alleged in her autobiography Un monde a l'envers (A Area Upside Down) that she difficult to understand been sexually abused by pretty up stepfather from the age portend five; his behaviour apparently sustained for many years,^[13] and turn he had a "more mystify equivocal attitude to her" although she got older.^[14] However, she also claimed to have anachronistic reconciled to him in blue blood the gentry latter years of his life.^[15]

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