Maurice Chevalier (Actor)

Reviews of Maurice Chevalier Movies

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Movies starring Maurice Chevalier have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 63%.

That's Entertainment! - released in 1974 - is Maurice Chevalier's highest rated movie, with a score of 77% based on 67 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Maurice Chevalier is The Big Pond - released in 1930 - with a score of 45% based on 2 reviews.

Actor Biography

Maurice Chevalier's first working job was as an acrobat, until a serious accident ended that career. He turned his talents to singing and acting, and made several short films in France. During World War I he enlisted in the French army. He was wounded in battle, captured and placed in a POW camp by the Germans. During his captivity he learned English from fellow prisoners. After the war he returned to the film business, and when "talkies" came into existence, Chevalier traveled to the US to break into Hollywood. In 1929 he was paired with operatic singer/actress Jeanette MacDonald to make The Love Parade (1929). Although Chevalier was attracted to the beautiful MacDonald and made several passes at her, she rejected him firmly, as she had designs on actor Gene Raymond, who she eventually married). He did not take rejection lightly, being a somewhat vain man who considered himself quite a catch, and derided MacDonald as a "prude". She, in turn, called him "the quickest derrière pincher in Hollywood". They made three more pictures together, the most successful being Love Me Tonight (1932). In the late 1930s he returned to Europe, making several films in France and England. World War II interrupted his career and he was dogged by accusations of collaboration with the Nazi authorities occupying France, but he was later vindicated. In the 1950s he returned to Hollywood, older and gray-headed. He made Gigi (1958), from which he took his signature songs, "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" and "I Remember it Well". He also received a special Oscar that year. In the 1960s he made ke a few more films, and in 1970 he sang the title song for Walt Disney's The AristoCats (1970). This marked his last contribution to the film industry.

Maurice Chevalier has acted in films with Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles, Leslie Caron and Hermione Gingold.

Maurice Chevalier has worked with these film directors: Ernst Lubitsch, Gene Kelly, Billy Wilder and Vincente Minnelli.