Christiane Legrand
Ses · 1930 – 2011 · Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, France
Christiane Legrand (21 August 1930 – 1 November 2011) was a French soprano. Legrand was born in Paris. Her father Raymond Legrand was a conductor and composer renowned for hits such as Irma la douce, and her mother was Marcelle Ter-Mikaëlian (sister of conductor Jacques Hélian), who married Legrand in 1929. Her maternal grandfather was of Armenian descent and considered a member of the bourgeoisie. Legrand studied piano and classical music from the time she was four. Jazz critic and composer André Hodeir discovered her in 1957, and she became the lead singer in the most notable French jazz vocal groups of the 1960s, including Les Double Six. Legrand was the original lead soprano of The Swingle Singers and was the vocalist who dubbed the part of Madame Emery in Les parapluies de Cherbourg, the music for which was composed by her brother Michel Legrand. She also sang the part of Judith in his Les demoiselles de Rochefort. Her commercial recordings of music for the concert hall included a recording of Laborinthus II of Luciano Berio. Legrand sang the lead role on the French Disney recording of the score to the film Mary Poppins (1964) and lent her talents to numerous other film projects. Legrand was the featured soprano on the track "Fires (Which Burn Brightly)" on the 1973 Procol Harum album Grand Hotel. Her niece Victoria Legrand is a member of the American indie pop group Beach House. Another niece, Eugénie Angot, is an equestrian. Source: Article "Christiane Legrand" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Film7.4DramRomantikMadame Emery ve kızı Geneviève Fransa'nın Normandiya bölgesinde küçük bir liman şehri olan Cherbourg'da küçük bir butikte şemsiye satarak geçinmektedirler. Film 1957 yılında 17 yaşındaki Geneviève ile 20 yaşındaki oto tamircisi Guy Foucher'nin birbirlerine aşık olmaları ile başlar. Çift evlilik planları yaparken Guy'ın annesi buna karşı gelir. Bir süre sonra askere alınan Guy Cezayir'e savaşa gönderilir. Guy uzakta iken hamile kaldığını öğrenen Geneviève zengin bir kuyumcu olan Roland Cassard'ın evlilik teklifini kabul etmek zorunda kalır. Yaralandığı için erken terhis edilen Guy, Cherbourg'a döndüğünde Geneviève'in gitmiş olduğunu görür.
Film7.7RomantikKomediİkiz kardeşler Delphine ve Solange, doğup büyüdükleri küçük kasaba Rochefort’tan çıkıp, büyük şehirde aşkı ve zenginliği bulma hayalleri kurar. Ayrılma planları yaparken, karnavalda şarkıcı olarak işe başlarlar. Tek bir hafta sonu, gönül işleriyle onların planlarını bozmaya yeter.
Film6.8DramMichel is a young technician in the fledgling TV industry and is due for military service in two months at the time of the Algerian War. Juliette and Liliane are inseparable best friends, and aspiring actresses, who hang around outside the TV studio. Michel invites them in to watch, flirts with them both, and dates them separately and together. When Michel goes on a holiday to Corsica, just before he is drafted, the girls follow.
Adieu Philippine
1962 · 57 votes
Film8.0MaceraAnimasyonThe Queen Bee, Honeyflower is placed under a spell by One Sting Maude, a witch from the tsetse family, jealous of the Queen Bee’s beauty. Bzz, the Bee-guide enlists the help of Joe to help save the Queen. He is given an injection to shrink him to the size of an insect and enters the parlor of the sleeping beauty, Honeyflower.
Film8.0BelgeselTelevision documentary about the making of Jacques Demy's 1964 film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg".
Il était une fois... « Les parapluies de Cherbourg »
Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
2008 · 1 votes
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Dizi8.0Talk ShowHaberLe Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at 8:30 pm on the first channel of the ORTF from January 12, 1972 to July 12, 1972, then on the second color channel of the ORTF from September 1972 to December 1974, and finally on Antenne 2 from January 1975 to December 21, 1989. The program returned to France 2 on December 20, 2018 and is hosted by Anne-Sophie Lapix.
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · 3 votes