It tells the fictional story of torch singer Edith Piaf's last hours before a tragic suicide. The musical arrangements of the 17 songs were made by Bruno Fontaine. Among the 17 tracks there is "Mais qu'est-ce que j'ai? Was believed by many to be a collaborator during the Nazi occupation of Paris You never know a guy till you've tried him in bed. You know more about a guy in one night in bed than you do in months of conversation.
In the sack, they can't cheat! For me, singing is a way of escaping. It is another world. I'm no longer on earth. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. Getting Started Contributor Zone ». Edit page. Create a list ». Singers music department. People at in My Favorite Musician. My Top 36 Favorite Singers. See all related lists ».
Share this page:. Clear your history. But she possessed the voice to bewitch audiences—throaty, throbbing yet tender. Tossed auburn hair, big eyes, pale, mournful face, Piaf seemed a waif, a castaway on the stage of life, troubled by everything that she witnessed. There was a special Piaf stance, arms-outstretched, fingers turned inwards, calculated to have and hold the listener in a minor state of doomed love, nostalgia, and regret.
She was a complete success, with songs created by Asso. The next year, , was a good year for Piaf's career. Piaf met another lover, actor Paul Meurisse. She herself wrote some thirty songs and performed about two hundred others in her life. La vie en rose was famous all over the world.
During the war Piaf remained mainly in Paris, miserably, along with Jean Cocteau. In the postwar period of European reconstruction and economic boom after , Piaf became an international star, with ten tours to the United States.
Piaf said "You have to send the elevator back down, so that others may get to the top. She gave as much as she took. Piaf was much in love with the world middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerdan for two years; he was killed in an air crash in She was awaiting his plane in New York. Piaf had a bent toward mysticism all along, and Cerdan's death led her to talk to him on the "other side.
Her death on October 11, at the age of 47 was due to a liver ailment and internal hemorrhage caused by a life of drink, drug dependency, accidents, and wear-and-tear. Jean Cocteau died seven hours after hearing of his friend's death, at age Non, je ne regrette rien "No, I do not regret anything" , her song of , was a fitting tribute. A year earlier at a comeback at Paris' Olympia Music Hall, Piaf had tottered on stage, barely able to walk, her hands twisted by arthritis; but she sold a million copies, in France alone, of a recording of that event- Live at the Olympia.
Over , people came to see her bier at her Paris flat, and 40, went to the cemetery. She knew what is hurting. She was nicknamed Little Sparrow. Record label Parlophone is celebrating her Dec. It clocks in at more than 20 hours on 20 CDs, re-mastered from the original rpm vinyl records and tapes. Something happens when she sings.
You listen to her. Piaf was born Edith Giovanna Gassion in the working-class Belleville neighborhood in Paris, where she was discovered singing on the streets with her alcoholic father.
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