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Suzy Delair

 
Artist: Suzy Delair
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  • Genres: World
  • Instrument: Vocals

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Suzy Delair was, from the end of the 1940s through the early '60s, one of the hottest French stars and personalities on the international film scene. A stunningly attractive woman with a saucy screen persona, she was equally good at comedy and drama -- ironically, before emerging as a screen star, she had been a cabaret singer for many years, and it was in the role of an entertainer, as Jenny Lamour in the 1947 Henri-Georges Clouzot thriller Quai des Orfèvres (titled Jenny Lamour for U.S. release) that she emerged to international stardom. The following year, she enjoyed a huge hit in France with "Avec Son Tra-La-La," but by then her movie career had taken off as well, and she effectively split her time between the two careers for the next 15 years or so, working with comedic actors such as Laurel & Hardy in their promising but disappointing swan song Atol K (aka Utopia)(1950) and Fernandel in Fernandel the Dressmaker (1956), and cutting an equally memorable figure in dramas such as Gervaise that same year. She kept her hand in music sufficiently to generate a very full CD's worth of cabaret songs and also to make it onto at least one classical song compilation. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide
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Actor: Suzy Delair
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  • Born: 1916 in Paris, France
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '40s-'60s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
  • Career Highlights: Quai des Orfèvres, Gervaise, Le Couturier de ces Dames
  • First Major Screen Credit: Le Dernier des Six (1941)

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Lively French leading lady Suzy Delair was a cabaret singer before inaugurating her film career in 1947. Her screen assignments ranged from the sublime (1960's Rocco and His Brothers) to the ridiculous (1966's Is Paris Burning) to the sublimely ridiculous (1956's Fernandel the Dressmaker). Ironically, Suzy is best known to American filmgoers for what may well be her worst film. In 1950, Suzy Delair was cast as will-of-the-wisp chanteuse Cheri Lamour in Atoll K, the melancholy final film effort of ageing comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Suzy Delair

Suzy Delair (born December 31, 1917, in Paris, France) is a vivacious French entertainer who starred in many different films. Her real name is Suzanne Pierrette Delaire.

She acted in films directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean Dréville, Jean Grémillon, Marcel L'Herbier, Christian-Jaque, Marcel Carné, Luchino Visconti, René Clément and Gérard Oury. She is also famous in France as singer ("Avec son Tra-la-la").

For several years, Suzy Delair was the companion of French film director Henri-Georges Clouzot.

Filmography

  • Un caprice de la Pompadour (Willy Wolff et Joë Hamman, 1930)
  • Violettes impériales (Henri Roussell), 1932)
  • La Dame de chez Maxim's (Alexander Korda), 1932)
  • L'Or dans la rue (K. Bernhardt), 1934)... Madeleine
  • The Depression Is Over (Robert Siodmak, 1934)
  • Dédé (Abel Gance), 1935)... Poliche
  • Prends la route (Jean Boyer), 1936)
  • Trois Six Neuf (Raymond Rouleau, 1937)
  • The Last One of the Six (Georges Lacombe, 1941)... Mila Malou
  • The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1942)... Mila Malou
  • Défense d'aimer (Richard Pottier, 1942)... Totte
  • La vie de bohème (Marcel L'Herbier, 1945)... Phémie/Femia
  • Quay of the Goldsmiths (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1947)... Jenny Lamour.
  • Confessions of a Rogue (Jean Dréville, 1947)... Coraline
  • Par la fenêtre (Gilles Grangier, 1948)... Fernande
  • White Paws (Jean Grémillon, 1949)... Odette
  • Lady Paname (Henri Jeanson, 1949)... Raymonde Bosset, dite Caprice
  • I'm in the Revue (Mario Soldati, 1950)... La Chanteuse
  • Lost Souvenirs (Christian-Jaque, 1950)... Suzy Henebey (episode "Une couronne mortuaire")
  • Utopia (Léo Joannon, 1951)... Chérie Lamour
  • Fly in the Ointment (Guy Lefranc, 1955)... Lucette Gauthier
  • Fernandel the Dressmaker (Jean Boyer, 1956)... Adrienne Vignard
  • Gervaise (René Clément, 1956)... Virginie
  • Rocco and his Brothers (Luchino Visconti, 1960)... Luisa.
  • The Regattas of San Francisco (Claude Autant-Lara, 1960)... Lucilla.
  • Du Mouron pour les petits oiseaux ("Chicken Feed for Little Birds", Marcel Carné, 1962).
  • Is Paris Burning? (René Clément, 1966)... A Parisienne.
  • The Mad Adventures of "Rabbi" Jacob (Gérard Oury, 1973)... Germaine Pivert.
  • Forget Me, Mandoline (1976)... Mireille

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