
Yves Montand
Ivo Livi (13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991), better known as Yves Montand, was an Italian-born French actor and singer. He is said to be one of France's greatest 20th-century artists. Montand was born Ivo Livi in Stignano, a small village in the hills of Monsummano Terme, Italy, to Giovanni Livi, a broom manufacturer. Montand's mother Giuseppina Simoni was a devout Catholic. The family left Italy for France in 1923 following fascist Benito Mussolini's rise to power. He grew up in Marseille, where, as a young man, he worked in his sister's beauty salon (Salon de Coiffure), as well as later on the docks. He began a career in show business as a music-hall singer. In 1944, he was discovered by Édith Piaf in Paris; she made him part of her act. Montand achieved international recognition as a singer and actor, starring in many films. He is recognised for crooner style songs, with those about Paris becoming instant classics. He was one of the best known performers at Bruno Coquatrix's Paris Olympia music hall, and toured with musicians including Didi Duprat. In October 1947, he sang "Mais qu'est-ce que j'ai?" (music by Henri Betti and lyrics by Édith Piaf) at the Théâtre de l'Étoile. Betti also asked him to sing "C'est si bon" but Montand refused. Following the success of the recording of this song by the Sœurs Étienne in 1948, he decided to record it. Montand was also very popular in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, where he did a concert tour in 1956-57. During his career, Montand acted in American motion pictures as well as on Broadway. He was nominated for a César Award for Best Actor in 1980 for I comme Icare and again in 1984 for Garçon! In 1986, after his international box-office draw power had fallen off considerably, the 65-year-old Montand gave one of his best remembered performances, as the scheming uncle in Jean de Florette, co-starring Gérard Depardieu, and Manon des Sources (both 1986), co-starring Emmanuelle Béart. The film was a worldwide critical hit and revived Montand's profile in the United States, where he made an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman. In 1951, he married Simone Signoret, and they co-starred in several films throughout their careers. The marriage was, by all accounts, fairly harmonious, lasting until her death in 1985, although Montand had a number of well-publicised affairs, notably with American actress Marilyn Monroe, with whom he starred in one of her final films, Let's Make Love. He was the stepfather to Signoret's daughter from her previous marriage, Catherine Allégret. Montand's only child, a son named Valentin, by his second wife, Carole Amiel (b. 1960), was born in 1988. In a paternity suit that caused commotion across France, another woman accused Montand of being the father of her daughter and went to court to obtain a DNA sample from him. Montand refused, but the woman persisted even after his death. In a court ruling that made international headlines, the woman won the right to have Montand exhumed and a sample taken. The results indicated that he was not the girl's biological father. He supported left-wing causes during the 1950s and 1960s, and attended Communist festivals and meetings. ... Source: Article "Yves Montand" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
122 acting credits
Acting · 122

Champs-Elysées
1982

What's My Line?
1950

Bambi
1948

Apostrophes
1975

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975

The Oscars
1953

Spécial cinéma
1974

Le Grand Échiquier
1972

Numéro un
1975

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948

Discorama
1959

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956

Cinépanorama
1956

Victoires de la musique
1985
Einer wird gewinnen
1964

Cérémonie des César
1976

Stars 90
1990

Reflets de Cannes
1954

À bout portant
1968

The Wages of Fear
1953

Manon of the Spring
1986

Is Paris Burning?
1966

Grand Prix
1966

Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions
1966

Jean de Florette
1986

Let's Make Love
1960

Le Cercle Rouge
1970

Z
1969

Delusions of Grandeur
1971

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
1970

Napoleon
1955

The Law
1959

Goodbye Again
1961

The Witches of Salem
1957

Lovers Like Us
1975

My Geisha
1962

Police Python 357
1976

Cesar and Rosalie
1972

I... for Icarus
1979

State of Siege
1972

The Sleeping Car Murders
1965

Womanlight
1979

The War Is Over
1966

Waiter!
1983

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
1974

Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
1974

Sanctuary
1961

The Confession
1970

Choice of Arms
1981

La Menace
1977

Special Section
1975

The End of a Beautiful Epoch
2015

Mr. Freedom
1969

All Fired Up
1982

Live for Life
1967

A Grin Without a Cat
1977

The Big Operator
1976

Morceaux de Cannes
2021

Pushing the Limit: The Making of Grand Prix
2006

Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
1984

Tout Va Bien
1972

The Devil by the Tail
1969

Mitterrand, président culturel
2021

The Lovely Month of May
1963

Three Seats for the 26th
1988

Chance and Violence
1974

Lost Souvenirs
1950

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
2012

IP5: The Island of Pachyderms
1992

Trintignant by Trintignant
2021

One Night... a Train
1968

A Butterfly in the Night
1976

Netchayev is Back
1991

Paris Is Always Paris
1951

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
2009

Men and Wolves
1957

Premier mai
1958

The Red Inn
1951

You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London
1971

Claude Sautet, Romy, Yves, Michel et les autres
2017

The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
2017

The Wide Blue Road
1957

Deneuve, la reine Catherine
2022

Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
2011

Nostalgia for the Future
2026

1958: Those Who Said No
2018

Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mystérieux et insaisissable
2022

The Anatomy of Love
1954

Marilyn, dernières séances
2008

Making 'The Misfits'
2002
The Force of Destiny
2017

Star Without Light
1946

The Son
1973

Hollywood Invasion
2011

Gates of the Night
1946

Heroes and Sinners
1955

Les Deux mémoires
1974

Les Rois de la comédie
2023

Le Parti du cinéma
2021

The Wind Rose
1957
Rendez-vous de l'espérance
1950

Roads to the South
1978

Signoret and Montand, Monroe and Miller: Two couples in Hollywood
2020

Rotterdam-Europoort
1966

Yves Montand is Singing
1957

Marguerite of the Night
1955

J'ai tout donné
1972

Romy, A Free Woman
2022

Rush - Voyage à Moscou
1990

Marilyn Monroe: In The Movies
2012

Paris Still Sings!
1951

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Singer
1974

Marilyn, a woman of today
2022
T'es fou Marcel
1974

The Idol
1948

Django Reinhardt
1957

Vive la crise !
1984

Un matin comme les autres
1956

Dans les coulisses: le tournage de 'Trois Places pour le 26'
2013

Montand
1994

One Minute for One Image
1983