32 Facts About Maurice Chevalier

1. Maurice Chevalier made his debut as a Parisian cafe singer in 1901.

2. Maurice Chevalier was born on Sept 12, 1888 in Paris.

3. Maurice Chevalier signed the anti-nuclear Stockholm Appeal in 1951 and was put on a watch list by the US State Department.

4. Maurice Chevalier died at home in Paris in January 1972.

5. Maurice Chevalier was born on 12 September 1888 in Paris, France.

6. Maurice Chevalier was teamed with Jeanette MacDonald in one of the most sophisticated movie musicals made in Hollywood.

7. Maurice Chevalier died of heart failure on the first day of 1972.

8. At the height of the Great Depression Maurice Chevalier was earning $20,000 a week as a contract player with Paramount.

9. Maurice Chevalier decided to become a solo performer in 1919, after years spent in the shadow of Mistinguett.

10. Maurice Chevalier left school at the age of ten, determined to be an acrobat.

11. Maurice Chevalier died in Paris on New Year's Day of 1972, at age 83.

12. Maurice Chevalier was well known enough that the Marx Brothers could parody his singing of "If a Nightingale Could Sing Like You" in their 1934 farce "Monkey Business", confident that their nationwide audience would get the joke.

13. Maurice Chevalier launched a solo career after the war and the relationship with Mistinguett cooled, although the two continued to perform together occasionally.

14. Maurice Chevalier was depicted along with French actor Charles Boyer in a Tex Avery cartoon.

15. Maurice Chevalier was a member of the Grand Order of Water Rats and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1651 Vine Street.

16. Maurice Chevalier died in Paris of kidney failure, on New Year's Day 1972, aged 83, and was interred in the cemetery of Marnes-la-Coquette in Hauts-de-Seine, outside Paris, France.

17. Maurice Chevalier appeared as himself in the 1958 Lucy Goes to Mexico television episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.

18. Maurice Chevalier appeared in the movie musical Gigi with Leslie Caron and Hermione Gingold, with whom he shared the song "I Remember It Well", and several Walt Disney films.

19. In 1957, Maurice Chevalier was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film.

20. In 1954, after the McCarthy era abated Maurice Chevalier was welcomed back in the United States.

21. Maurice Chevalier was therefore even less popular in the US during the McCarthyism period; in 1951, he was refused re-entry into the US because he had signed the Stockholm Appeal.

22. Maurice Chevalier started to paint and collect and acted in Le silence est d'or (1946) by Rene Clair.

23. Maurice Chevalier had several successes, such as his revue Paris en Joie in the Casino de Paris.

24. Maurice Chevalier took it, said "Thank you", put it in his pocket, and continued with the conversation.

25. Maurice Chevalier appeared in Paramount's all-star revue film Paramount on Parade.

26. Maurice Chevalier signed a contract with Paramount Pictures and played his first American role in Innocents of Paris.

27. Maurice Chevalier met the American composers George Gershwin and Irving Berlin and brought Dede to Broadway in 1922.

28. Maurice Chevalier went to London, where he found new success at the Palace Theatre, even though he still sang in French.

29. Maurice Chevalier discovered jazz and ragtime and started thinking about touring the United States.

30. In 1917, Maurice Chevalier became a star in le Casino de Paris and played before British soldiers and Americans.

31. Maurice Chevalier died in Paris, on January 1, 1972, aged 83.

32. Maurice Chevalier developed an interest in acting and had success in Dede.