Rita Cadillac

Rita Cadillac , (* May 18, 1936 as Nicole Yasterbelsky in Paris , † April 4, 1995 in Deauville Département Calvados ), was a French (nude) dancer, singer and actress .

biography

She began her musical career at the age of 13 as an accordionist under the pseudonym "Rita Rella". One day she went to the Folies Bergère Varieté with some boxes of designs for theatrical costumes and happened to be hired as a dancer. “I just came to a day when new dancers and nude models were to be cast and I was put in a corner with the others and they said to me, 'Take off your clothes, put on three feathers, stand up on the catwalk, go. '"

In 1951, not yet 16, she performed freely in another vaudeville in downtown Paris, the Crazy Horse , and adopted the stage name Rita Cadillac (a conscious analogy of her breasts or “physical appearance” to the mighty chrome bumpers of the time Models of the American car brand Cadillac ?). In later years she was also photographed as a pin-up girl.

Due to her attractiveness and fame, she also became aware of French films and she played supporting roles in several films between 1954 and 1962. However, she never made a breakthrough as an actress. She later played in musicals and operettas . In Germany, however, she only became known in 1981 with her appearance as the club singer Monique in the successful film " Das Boot ".

Private life

She had a relationship with Alain Delon for almost three years , and she is said to have not only had a musical collaboration with the young Johnny Hallyday . After her life as an artist, she opened a practice for astrology and group therapy in Deauville . She died in 1995 before she could publish her planned memoir.

"Fair tour du monde avec un cache-sexe dans la poche, il ya beaucoup à raconter"

" Traveling around the world with a pair of briefs in your pocket, there's a lot to talk about"

- Rita Cadillac (in an interview)

Songs

• 1959: Ne comptez pas sur moi (pour me montrer toute nue) / Arrivederci / Adonis / Personnalités
• 1960: Souvenirs, souvenirs / Y'en avait qu'un comme ça / C'est fou / Jamais je n'oublierai
• 1962: J'ai peur de coucher toute seule / Il n'y a qu'à Paris / Non, ce n'est pas dangereux / Chaque fois qu'on aime
• 1969: Erotica (an illustrated orgasm to instrumental music)
• 1971: Ne touchez pas à l'animal

Filmography

• 1954: Soirs de Paris (in Belgium as “Folies de Paris”) - Director: Jean Laviron
• 1955: Gueule d'ange - Directed by Marcel Blistène
• 1955: Pas de pitié pour les caves - Director: Henri Lepage
• 1957: Hyenas among themselves (Jusqu'au dernier) - Director: Pierre Billon
• 1958: Porte océane, short film - Director: Ado Kyrou
• 1960: How easy it can get in the eye (Me faire ça à moi) - Director: Pierre Grimblat
• 1961: Unleashed instincts (Juventud a la intemperie) - Director: Ignacio F. Iquino
• 1961: Cadavres en vacances - Director: Jacqueline Audry
• 1962: Prostitution (La Prostitution) - Director: Maurice Boutel
• 1962: Moonlight over Maubeuge (Un clair de lune à Maubeuge) - Director: Jean Chérasse
• 1962: Aftó to káti állo! - Director: Grigóris Grigoríou
• 1962: As silent as the night (Mélodie en sous-sol) - directed by Henri Verneuil
• 1962: Le Livre muet, short film - director: Gérard Dumont, with Marcel Mouloudji
• 1962: Halbwelt, narcotics and scoundrels, previously “Sittenfall 1413” (Dossier 1413) - Director: Alfred Rode
• 1981: Das Boot - Director: Wolfgang Petersen (opening scenes as a night club singer)

watch TV

• 1967: Max le débonnaire : TV series, episode "De quoi je me mêle"
• 1985: Das Boot : TV series, part 1 "In the home", as a club singer Monique

theatre

• 1956: Ah! Source slide ... in the Folies Bergère .
• 1963: Le temps des guitares by Raymond Vincy and Francis Lopez, an operetta in two acts and 20 murals on the stage of the ABC (a Paris music hall ); with Tino Rossi , Josy Andrieu, Maurice Baque, Maurice Baquet and Pierre Doris.
• 1971: La Maison de Zaza by Gaby Bruyère, directed by Robert Manuel, Théâtre des Nouveautés
• 1972: Madame Pauline musical comedy by Darry Cowl based on La Maison de Zaza by Gaby Bruyère, staged by Darry Cowl, Théâtre des Variétés
• 1974: Tour de Nesle by Alec Pierre Quince, written by Alexandre Dumas , directed by Archibald Panmach, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Portrait of the artist at Vimeo
2. ↑ ^{a b c} "Rita Cadillac, strip-teaseuse, chanteuse et actrice méconnue" ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Rita Cadillac, strip dancer, singer and misunderstood actress) February 1, 2011, publication by Daniel Lesueur, accessed June 25, 2016 
3. ↑ Portrait on encinematheque.fr
4. ↑ The songs Y'en avait qu'un comme ça and C'est fou were played and filmed in Scopitones , early forerunners of today's music videos

Web links

• Biography on rotten tomatoes (English)