Bernard Brumberg " Yves Montand "

Yves Montand, whose real name Ivo Livi, is a movie actor, singer, dancer and performer of French music-hall Italian origin born October 13, 1921 in Monsummano Terme, Tuscany (Italy) - died on November 9, 1991 Senlis (Oise), France.

His talent as a performer, his charm and showmanship from music hall to Montand assured immediate success. on the scene of the Alcazar, the Odeon, temples institutional music hall of Marseilles.
Subsequently he played at Bobino, the Folies Belleville and the famous Moulin Rouge, where he spent the first part of the singer Edith Piaf. The meeting of these two exceptional artists then turned thunderbolt.
He then launched a career as a movie actor.

Henri Georges Clouzot Montand offered his first major film role, with the Wages of Fear. This film was awarded the Grand Prize at Cannes.

The couple bought a property Signoret Montand to Autheuil-Authouillet in Normandy. Stayed there regularly Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Serge Reggiani, Pierre Brasseur, Luis Bunel, Jorge Semprun.
Montand began a brilliant tour to USA and ascended to star status internationally. In New York, he triumphed on Broadway.

It also performs several successful tours of the music hall in the world, Canada and Japan.

It was during his stay in the United States for the surrender of the Oscar for best actress Simone Signoret, for his performance in the film The Road to the Upper Town by Jack Clayton, as Yves Montand and Simone became acquainted Marilyn Monroe was married to writer Arthur Miller. The two couples sympathized imposed Montand and Marilyn studios to play alongside him in The Billionaire. In 1960, Montand therefore turned to the Hollywood film by George Cukor, along with Marilyn Monroe.

It was at this occasion that tied an adventure between Montand and the American actress, this under the spotlight of the international press. Simone Signoret returned to France while a passionate affair, known to all, is tied between Montand and Marilyn Monroe.

Amount returned to the United States at the Golden Theatre on Broadway in New York, then in Japan and England, as an artist of music hall hit among the most renowned in the world.