Colette Renard

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Colette Renard (1961)

Colette Renard (born November 1, 1924 in Ermont , Département Val-d'Oise as Colette Lucie Raget , † October 6, 2010 in Marseille ) was a French chanson singer and actress , who in 1956 was the first actress to perform "Irma" in Irma la Douce played.

life and work

Chanson singer

After finishing school, she studied the cello and was not only a secretary, but also a singer in the orchestra of Raymond Legrand , whose wife she became in 1969.

At the premiere of the musical Irma la Douce by Marguerite Monnot on November 10, 1956 at the Théatre Gramont in Paris , she was the first to play the title role and continued on stage as Irma until 1967. In addition, she had eleven and fifteen appearances in the Paris music halls Olympia and Bobino and in 1976 at the side of the seriously ill Georges Brassens , whose chansons she interpreted with great success. On the other hand, she published numerous music albums , the songs of which often contained rhetoric . The best known of these chanson Grivoises is Les Nuits d'une demoiselle , in which she sings about numerous synonyms of cunnilingus and other sexual practices .

Her best-known chansons based on the music of Marguerite Monnot, Norbert Glanzberg , Jacques Datin , Guy Magenta , Jacques Larmanjat , Huard Pingault and François Rauber as well as the texts by Alexandre Breffort , Maurice Vidalin , Michel Rivgauche , Fernand Bonifay , Michel Vaucaire and Francis Carco include Ah! Dis donc, dis donc (1956), Zon… zon… zon… (1957), Tais-toi Marseille (1958), Ça, c'est d'la musique (1958), Sa casquette (1958), Mon homme est un guignol (1959), Des histoires , Chanson tendre (1961), Le marin et la rose (1962), Les lignes de ma vie (1979) and Ceux qui s'aiment (2002). / Your chansons have appeared on more than 50 records . Her last album Ceux qui s'aiment was released in 2002 and in the same year she had her last stage appearance at the Théâtre Déjazet .

Colette Renard has received several awards, including the Grand Prize of the Charles Cros Academy , the Académie du disque français , the President of the Republic and the Grand prix international du disque . She was also a Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .

Film and television actress

In addition to her singing career, she also worked as an actress and in 1963 played "Clara" in the film Un roi sans divertissement (A King Alone) by François Leterrier at the side of Claude Giraud . In 1992 she played "Monique" in the film IP5 - L'île aux pachydermes ( IP5 - Island of the Pachyderms ) by Jean-Jacques Brilleix and Yves Montand in the lead role. Her other films include Le dos au mur (1958), Business (1960), Les pieds dans le plâtre (1965) and Clodo (1970).

She has also played roles in numerous television films and series such as Pierrots des Alouettes (1964), Les dossiers de Me Robineau: Les cagnards (1972), La vie rêvée de Vincent Scotto (1973), La chanson de Tiber (1980), Mon petit âne , ma mère (1982), Vichy dancing (1983), Noël au Congo (1986), Justice (1999), Maigret (2003), Docteur Dassin, généraliste (2004) and Le triporteur de Belleville (2005). From August 2004 to September 2009 she played the role of "Rachel Lévy" in Plus belle la vie .

Colette Renard also wrote two autobiographies titled Raconte-moi ta chanson (Editions Grasset, 1998) and Ceux qui s'aiment: Bloc-notes (Pascal Maurice éditeur, 2006).

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Minas Vartabédian, Évelyne Baron: Varta photographe. Creaphis Ed., Paris 2005, ISBN 2-913610-72-2 , p. 22. ( online version at Google Books )
  2. ^ Paul Melchior producteur, "Clin d'œil à Irma la douce / Colette Renard", 2009/2011.
personal data
SURNAME Renard, Colette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raget, Colette Lucie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French chanson singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Ermont , Val-d'Oise department , France
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 2010
Place of death Marseille , France