YVES MONTAND. FRENCH ACTOR AND SINGER

Real name - Ivo Livi. French actor and singer. Was a singer in Marseille in 1944 appeared in Paris in the "Folies-Bergere" and "Moulin Rouge". Since 1945 - film actor. Appeared in the films "The fee for fear" (1953), "Seylemskie Witch" (1956), "Let's make love" ("Billionaire") (1960), "The war is over" (1966), "Live to Live" (1967 ), "Confession" (1970), "State of Siege" (1973), "Savage" (1975), "Manon" (1986), "Three tickets to the 26th" (1988), "Nechaev returned" (1991) etc. The author of the book of memoirs, "the Sun is full of head" (1955).

Yves Montand had in my life only one legal wife, not less, than it is known Simone Signoret, with whom he lived thirty-six years until her death. But Montana is not indulged in the fact that the Germans were very accurately called "zaytenshprung", or "jump to the side. " Art and women were inseparable in his emotional life, full of anxieties, disappointments, and the great feeling of love, which, sweeping away everything in the way makes a person happy and unique. Among the women have been idolized him great Edith Piaf - the "little sparrow", captivating mystery of French pop songs, and great Marilyn Monroe - "a symbol of the earth's number one beauty," the sex symbol of Hollywood . . .

These women are known and appreciated in the romance of love and madness, patience and sincerity, purity and suffering. And, of course, the overwhelming feeling of sensuality.

Yves Montand was not a man that a woman can easily wear a collar, but for that they liked it too.

Edith Piaf . . . She always knew how to choose a decent men and proud of it. Not only loved them, but the day they lived. In her life, Yves Montand was special - she opened it to an unknown young man of Marseilles natural talent and helped him become a star of first magnitude on the French stage.

Yves Montand and Edith Piaf met in the mid-forties. Day of the meeting will forever remain in their memory. Thin, very long, "dude" presented Piaf, already known and adored by the public.

"I tasted particularly cruel fear, - confessed later Eve. - No matter how I tried to convince myself, but the frail spectator, careful and dispassionate, produced in me a greater impression than three hundred people, noisy and impatient. To pull myself together, I needed all male pride: I could not fold to a woman . . . "

"When he sang, - recalls Edith Piaf - I immediately fell under his spell. An original identity of the actor, the impression of strength and masculinity, beautiful artistic hands, interesting, expressive face, soulful voice . . . "

Edith Piaf instilled in him a particle of his divine talent. She taught Yves Montand the beauty of singing that made him great.

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Taught him to truly love a woman and not afraid to show love in all its passion, feel easy and natural to the passion. "The little sparrow" taught a simple, muscular guy growing 187 centimeters and weighing 82 kilograms. And Yves Montand, despite its abrupt and harsh, is not opposed to the lessons of love, and longed for more and more meetings, especially after quarrels and scandals, expecting that precious moment when again he will forgive and you can be in the arms of his beloved.

Yves Montand has repeatedly offered Edith Piaf: "Edith, let's get married. I want you to be my wife . . . " However, this happy day has not arrived. They were just loyal friends . . .

Eve first met Simone Signoret August 19, 1949 under the blue skies of Provence. They were both then in 28 years. She - well-known actress, wife of director Yves Allegre and mother of their daughter, three-year-Catherine. Montagne, who came on tour in Nice - the rising star of music hall, nicknamed "Dynamite on stage. " He was born in a small Italian village of Monsummano, a poor peasant family. When he was two years old, the parents had emigrated from Tuscany (area in Italy), France.

Ivo Livi - sounded so his real name. Montana - a nickname that came as a memory of childhood, when his mother called for dinner, shouting in Italian: "Ivo, Monte! Ivo, Monte!" (Ivo, get up!).

He began work at eleven years was a student hairdresser, dockers in Marseilles harbor, workers at the Pasta Factory . . . When Willow came to fame and he got some money, he gave his parents a house in the suburbs of Marseille, a family elder brother Julien invited to live with myself. Elvira, wife of Julien, began working as a secretary to Yves and Simone, and Jean-Louis, their son, began helping his uncle in the movie and use it to become a profession producer.

. . . Much later, in the late 1980s, after the death Signoret, Yves Montand, said: "We were introduced to each other in the" Golden Dove "and the next day we had lunch together. For dessert, taking her hand, I whispered, "What you have thin wrists" - and since we did not leave. "

December 22, 1951 in the municipality of Saint-Paul-de-Vano they were married. With his hand witness was Paul Roux, the owner of "Golden Dove" with her - Jacques Prevert. As a wedding gift sent by Pablo Picasso drawing, made felt-tip pen (which in those days was a rarity).

In the life of Yves and Simone had many happy days. Yves Montand Simone adopt a daughter - Catherine, born from the marriage with her first husband. Years passed, and Catherine, who became an actress, wrote a book about their lives. There are these words: "My mother was a fan of Montana. They tied a violent passion, which no one else left the room .

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. . I never met a person more talented than the Montagne. Furthermore, he has worked incredibly. 's Mother also, who came from a bourgeois environment, was well educated and eager to share with all of Montana. And he was obsessed with the desire to succeed. Do not be Edith Piaf, or Simone Signoret, he still would Montand . . . "

In 1951 he began shooting the film "The fee for the fear. " In May 1953, the picture was "Grand Prix" at Cannes International Film Festival, and came to its global success. For Yves Montand film was the culmination of takeoff in films and on stage. From October 1953 to March 1954 on, he gave two hundred solo concerts.

. . . In September 1959, in a makeup room roar with laughter Broadway writer Arthur Miller, his wife, Marilyn Monroe, Montand and his wife Rosten. French actor made his first appearance on the American scene, and his audience for some reason, laughing in the most unexpected places. From his New York friends Montand learned that laughter caused the buttons on the fly, glittering in the spotlight every time Ive thrust his hands into his pockets. So, have fun and at ease, began dating, culminating in an international scandal.

In April 1960 his wife visited the United States. Simon was awarded the "Oscar" for starring in the movie "The Path to Higher Society," and Yves Montand, after lengthy negotiations, agreed to star in the film "Let's make love" ("Billionaire"). His co-star Marilyn Monroe was, said: "After my husband's Eve, along with Brando is the most handsome man of all that I've ever met. "

Montand, oddly enough, never seen a film with Monroe. In English, he almost never spoke. However, Miller also believed that "it is a marvelous way for the role. They Marilyn very real people. Each of them has an internal motor, which produces an unprecedented energy. Yves become one of the biggest stars of the American screen. "

So, in January 1960, the couple and the couple Montana Miller entered the numbers 20 and 21 of the hotel, "Beverly Hills". Every evening the pair met for dinner. It soon began to express dissatisfaction with Montand behavior on the set of Marilyn. Sometimes, without warning, she disappeared from the studio and could not appear till the evening. However, there were funny moments. Monroe once said that the censor will not miss the scene with kisses, if she would lie, because the impression that they are making love with Montand in earnest. "Well, - said Marilyn - we might as well have to do it and standing up!"

In spite of professional differences, a Frenchman and Marilyn that spring began an affair. It is all in a row, including a psychiatrist, began to say that the Frenchman is a hair's breadth as DiMaggio, her first husband, and that he physically turned on her.

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On set, it was obvious that they like to pretend to be lovers.

Simone Signoret sensed danger, but the related contract, was forced to go to Europe. Arthur Miller, who was then in Los Angeles, then beyond it, a blind eye to danger, as seems to be resigned to the fact that marriage is not today, tomorrow can fail. Marilyn and Montand in their neighboring bungalows are increasingly left to their own devices.

Monroe likely to win the Frenchman has used his favorite trick: she knocked at his bungalow, having come in a mink coat, under which there was nothing. Arthur Miller once caught a couple in bed when he returned to the house to take a forgotten phone. Soon stories began to spread bed hotel maid. Love affair became public.

In the summer, when work on the film was completed, the Montana through New York returned to Paris. Meanwhile, Marilyn's on the East Coast has made a clever interception lover. She took off in a hotel room and was in the airport, laden with champagne. A short stop turned into a five-hour delay. Marilyn and Montana have seen in her limo, where they were sitting in an embrace in the back seat. After that, confused and embarrassed by the Frenchman returned to Paris, where he was waiting for long-suffering Simone Signoret.

Marilyn did not want to let him go. For many months she teshila the hope that he could win Montana by his side. But the more they are not met.

Many years later, after the death Signoret, Montand admitted: "Wherever I go, no matter how he lived, Marilyn will always be with me. And I do not want to dismiss her image. And if sometimes still gonyu, then it just means that I'm trying to survive, that's all. "

Premiere of "Let's make love" was held in Paris on October 30. Everyone wanted to see at least on screen, how they love each other, Yves and Marilyn. After watching it a lot of conflicting opinions. The unanimity was manifested only in one thing - their affair made it possible for Yves and Marilyn deeper to reveal his talent.

August 5, 1962, Yves Montand, together with the whole world learned about the tragedy that occurred with Marilyn Monroe. The news knocked him permanently off balance. He did not pour out their pain on the pages of newspapers and magazines. Stayed with her one on one . . .

Soon, life has brought him another terrible news: October 14, 1963 the whole of Paris mourned Edith Piaf. Yves Simon, and eventually pass away the woman, which were concerned with so many good things in their life . . .

The last decade of his life saw a lot of Simone Signoret. Her daughter wrote in her book: "Mom could not get over the fact that age. Montand, who refused to grow old, loved to Simon, but he loved life.

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I was his alibi. We had often made various spree. And sometimes I help him in his adventures . . . "

In January 1985, Simone Signoret published novel, "Goodbye, Vladimir", and on September 30, during the filming of her death came . . .

In May 1987, the International Film Festival in Cannes, Yves Montand was chairman of the jury, and here he first appeared in public accompanied by his new girlfriend - Carole Amel. Young, beautiful, she shyly smiled at the unaccustomed situation.

"When I was little - recalls Carole - I watched him furtively and even then was full of admiration for the actor, a man of his career. I love it for what it is . . . and I'd be the last, if interfered with in his life, wanting to change it. "

Yves Montand was older than Karol Amel more than fifty years. He was happy as a child. After the death of Simone's Eve acquired a new, more spacious apartment on the Boulevard Saint-Germain, near the same.

Carol knew about the secret pain Yves Montand. It seemed as if he has achieved everything in life. But it was not the most important - your own child, successor race. A life actually was over, and nothing we can not expect . . .

Valentine was born on 29 December 1988, when Yves Montana was already sixty-seven years. Ive learned about the birth of his son, said: "I feel a lot better than most young fathers. Of course, nothing Valentine will not need, but I believe that the child needs the presence of the father and mother, and there can be nothing more . I can provide him with his presence for as long as I will be released . . . "

But not for long lasted happy fatherhood. The kid was not yet three years old when one day during filming, Yves Montand felt ill and was rushed to hospital Sanli. Carol remained with him all night. It seemed that the crisis had passed, he felt better, and, turning to his wife, he said, "Go home, but nobody has anything do not say . . . " Leaving it in the hour of the day called the hospital and she was informed of his death.

Yves Montand died on 9 November 1991. He retired to his beloved women - Edith, Marilyn, Simone . . . To those that had lived rough, but happy life.

Yves Montand take from life all that she gave him. He was damned jealous. Reckless, burning, unnecessary, painful - she often brought Willow and women suffering and pain. He could tell a story fiercely lot of unnecessary words, but calmed down and find the right words to say so tenderly and passionately, that his favorite all forgiven. They adored him for his seething energy in a violent movements and gestures, with eyes that emit radiant light, with the tone of his beautiful voice, a tender and close embrace, give birth to the passion that turns the whole soul and pierces the heart.

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Yves Montand had never considered himself a great "I probably would call myself lucky. I do not like being called an outstanding actor. I would call myself a man who could not just waste time, but meet great people who influenced his life . . ".

After parting with Yves Montand, Edith Piaf, said the wonderful words: "If a man has beautiful hands, really beautiful, it can not be ugly inside. 's Hands do not lie, as a person. Especially if they gesture . . . "

When Yves Montand left America, Marilyn Monroe was in such wretched condition that surrounded her friends were amazed. "What would have happened if Eve . . . What can I do? He looks so much like me, internally and externally . . . In my life there was a person very close to me . . . "

Simone Signoret confessed to his close friend: "If you knew how much I love him, this guy's life . . . without it - the emptiness . . . "

But Yves had other love affairs. One of them - two-year romance with actress Anne Gilbert Drosar, in which it was in those years had a daughter, named Aurora. But an affair with her mother had already ended. When the actor lived with his beautiful young Karol Amel, in his life again invaded Ann Gilbert Drosar. But now it's not in love, and to sue for recognition of his father, Auroras. The fact of cohabitation with Ann Gilbert Montagne before the court denied. Recognize the same to be the father of Aurora refused. He did not want to go and genetic examination to determine paternity.

By a bequest left by Montand his legacy was to be divided between Catherine Allegra and Valentin. But Ann Gilbert Drosar contested the will, claiming that it was also recognized by Aurora's daughter Montana. Held in 1994, a new trial, taking into account the previous recognition Montand affair with Ann Gilbert, testimony of witnesses and the resemblance of Aurora with the artist, has decided to recognize her daughter, Montana. This means that it is among his heirs. Relatives of Montana, of course, protested against this decision. Litigation dragged on for almost four years. And the new court found that there is only one opportunity to set the record straight - a genetic examination of the remains of Montana. His grave in Paris Pere Lachaise cemetery to be opened and the remains exhumed. This court decision in France was met with indignation. Minister of Health Bernard Kushnir, head of the National Ethics Committee, Jean-Pierre Shanzhdo and thousands of ordinary French people demanded that the remains of Montana had been left alone. In June 1998, a genetic examination yet been made. It turned out that Yves Montand was not the father of Aurora . . .