Ray Ventura
Raymond Ventura (16 April 1908, Paris, France – 29 March 1979, Palma de Mallorca, Spain) was a French jazz pianist and bandleader. He helped popularize jazz in France in the 1930s. His nephew was singer Sacha Distel. Ventura was born to a Jewish family. In 1925 he was the pianist for the Collegiate Five, which recorded as the Collegians for Columbia beginning in 1928 and for Decca in the 1930s. A year later he led the band, and it became a dance orchestra resembling a big band. His sidemen included Alix Combelle, Philippe Brun, and Guy Paquinet. In the early 1940s he led a big band in South America and in France during the rest of the decade. One of his band's popular songs from 1936 was "Tout va très bien, Madame la Marquise" in which the Marquise is told by her servants that everything is fine at home except for a series of escalating calamities. It was seen as a metaphor for France's obliviousness to the approaching war. Source: Article "Ray Ventura" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Monte Carlo Baby
as SelfWhen a measles epidemic forces the temporary closing of a child care center, the son of a film...
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Quadrille
as Himself (as Ray Ventura et ses Collégiens)The battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor,...
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Femmes de Paris
as uncreditedProfessor Charles Buisson, astronomer and Nobel Prize winner, has just discovered a nova. He...
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We Will All Go to Paris
as SelfThe film tells the story of three presenters on Radio X, an amateur clandestine radio station.
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Whirlwind of Paris
as SelfA gang of broke student musicians travel to Paris to take exams. But very quickly, the lack of...
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Adventure in Paris
as uncreditedMichel Levasseur is a joyous reveler who does not care about the next day. So much so that one...
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L'assassin connaît la musique
as Lui-même (non crédité)Lionel Fribourg, a great composer (at least that's what he thinks) has a problem with his noisy...
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One Hundred Francs Per Second
as SelfPhilippe, an employee at the Bourdinet firm, having been caught kissing Jacqueline, his boss's...
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Everything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise
as uncreditedAfter he loses a servant job when his employer's mansion burns down, a yokel makes money...
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Mademoiselle Has Fun
as SelfChristine, the daughter of a rich American, acquires from her father the jazz band of Ray...
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Feux de joie
as SelfOnce their military service is over, the instrumentalists of a regimental orchestra find...
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