Mireille Hartuch

Mireille Hartuch (born September 30, 1906 in Paris ; † December 29, 1996 there ) was a French singer , composer and actress . Her stage name was Mireille .

Life

Born in Paris to Jewish parents , she grew up in a musical environment. As a teenager she began to appear in the theater and to compose music for these occasions. When she met the copywriter Jean Nohain in 1928 , the foundation for her long-term success was laid. Together with Nohain she wrote around 600 chansons .

A two-year stay in New York was followed by the beginning of her film career in Hollywood , where she a. a. with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Buster Keaton in front of the camera. As a pianist she accompanied Jean Sablon in 1932/33 . In 1937 she married the writer Emmanuel Berl , with whom she had to hide from the German occupiers three years later in the Limousin region of southern France , where she became active in the Resistance movement.

After the war, she maintained friendships with Jean Cocteau , Albert Camus and André Malraux . Mireille performed until 1976. Her friend Sacha Guitry suggested founding the Petit Conservatoire de la chanson , a private conservatory which opened in 1955 and where she trained numerous young singers.

Mireille Hartuch is buried in the Montparnasse cemetery.

literature

• Mireille in Jürgen Wölfer : The great lexicon of entertainment music , Lexikon Imprint Verlag im Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-272-5 , p. 366

Web links

• Mireille Hartuch in the Internet Movie Database (English)