Line Renaud
Line Renaud (born 2 July 1928) is a popular French singer, actress and AIDS activist. Line Renaud was born Jacqueline Ente in Pont-de-Nieppe on 2 July 1928. Her mother Simone was a shorthand typist; her father was a truck driver during the week, but he played the trumpet on weekends, in a local brass band. Line showed the first signs of her talent in primary school, when at the age of seven she won an amateur competition. During the Second World War, Jacqueline's father was mobilised, spending five years away from the family. During this time, Jacqueline was brought up by her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Her grandmother had a café in Armentières, where she used to sing for passing soldiers. She auditioned at Conservatoire de Lille, singing songs written by Loulou Gasté "Sainte-Madeleine" and "Mon âme au diable". Louis Gasté was at that time a well-known French composer. At the end of the audition, she was approached by the director of Radio Lille who was looking for a singer. She took the pseudonym of Jacqueline Ray and joined the station singing a repertoire based on the songs by Loulou Gasté. In 1945, she moved to Paris and got her first gig in Folies Belleville, where she was introduced to Gasté. She was 16, and Gasté was 37. He became her mentor, changing her image and her name. Line Renaud made her national debut on Radio Luxembourg, singing on a Sunday morning program. After signing a contract with Pathe Marconi, she recorded "Ma Cabane au Canada", written by Loulou Gasté, which won le Grand Prix du Disque. She also sang with Yves Montand in the Théâtre de l'Etoile. She toured Europe and Africa extensively, came back to Paris to star at the ABC, and recorded numerous adaptations of American songs such as "Ma petite folie", "Étoile des neiges" and "Le Chien dans la vitrine". In 1954, while performing at Moulin Rouge, she met Bob Hope and subsequently appeared in five episodes of The Bob Hope Show in the US. During this trip, she also sang in the Waldorf Astoria (New York) and the Cocoanut Grove (Los Angeles), appeared on Johnny Carson, Dinah Shore and Ed Sullivan shows and recorded with Dean Martin the songs "Relax-Ay-Voo" and "Two Sleepy People". In 1959, she started a four-year run of Plaisir de Paris for Henri Varna and then went on to perform in a Las Vegas show at Dunes from 1963 to 1965. In 1966 she returned to Paris and the Casino de Paris starring in a new show, Desir de Paris. In 1968, she returned to Las Vegas for a number of performances. In France, in 1973 she created an American show which she toured for two years around the country. She then helped Casino de Paris, threatened by closing, by putting on a show called ‘Paris – Line’ with Loulou Gasté, which ran for four years. In the 1980s, she starred in a TV show Telle est Line for Antenne 2 and recorded songs in English and French. At Casino de Paris, she put on a one-off show which retraced her forty-year career. Also, in 1981, she served as an unofficial on-air "guide" for Merv Griffin when he taped "The Merv Griffin Show" in Paris, and in 1982 she was a guest on Perry Como's Christmas special in Paris. In 1989, she toured around Japan as part of a festival which marked the bicentennial of the French Revolution. ... Source: Article "Line Renaud" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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- 2023 · Le Prochain voyage as Jacqueline
- 2022 · Sheila, toutes ces vies-là as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · Il était une fois Champs-Élysées as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · Raymond Devos dans tous ses sens as
- 2022 · In France with Madonna as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · Driving Madeleine as Madeleine
- 2022 · They Love Each Other... Well, Almost! as Louis
- 2022 · Johnny Hallyday: Beyond Rock as Self
- 2021 · Le Squat as Colette
- 2021 · Archives secrètes as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · Knock, Knock, It's Mom! as Mamoune
- 2020 · I Love You Coiffure as Mme Vinard (segment "Le Salon de coiffure")
- 2020 · Les secrets de la belle endormie as Self
- 2019 · Huguette as Huguette
- 2019 · Let's Dance as Nicole
- 2019 · Mon Chirac as Self
- 2018 · Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic as Self
- 2018 · Muriel Robin, oser être soi... as Self
- 2018 · Jean Paul Gaultier fait son show as Self
- 2018 · Family Is Family as Suzanne Duquesne, Valentin's mother
- 2018 · Mentalistes : dans la tête des stars as Self
- 2017 · Remembering You as Mado
- 2017 · Pleins feux as Alice Margaux
- 2015 · Call My Agent! as Self
- 2014 · La Douce Empoisonneuse as Clémence
- 2014 · La voyante as Vera
- 2014 · Belinda and Me as Jacqueline
- 2013 · Murders in... as Gabrielle Sandraz
- 2012 · Simple question de temps as Laurence Delcourt
- 2012 · Petits arrangements avec ma mère as Marie-Louise
- 2012 · Harold et Maude as Maude
- 2011 · La Croisière as Simone
- 2011 · The Great Restaurant II as The lady with the canary
- 2011 · Très chère Mathilde as Mathilde Giffard
- 2010 · Santa's Apprentice as Solange Folichon (voice)
- 2009 · In case of Bad Luck as Viviane Guérand
- 2008 · Fallen from the Sky as Louise
- 2008 · Le Silence de l'épervier as Margot Vivier-Lefort
- 2008 · Welcome to the Sticks as Mrs. Bailleul
- 2008 · Fugueuses as Claude
- 2007 · Aller retour dans la journée as Élise Villedieu
- 2006 · A House of Your Dreams as Tata Suzanne Bailleul
- 2006 · Infrarouge as Self
- 2006 · The Robin Sisters as Marie Robin
- 2005 · The Accursed Kings as Marie de Hongrie
- 2005 · A Cursed Monarchy as Marie de Hongrie
- 2005 · The Courage to Love as Line
- 2004 · Le Miroir de l'eau as Suzanne Castella
- 2004 · Suzie Berton as Suzie Berton
- 2003 · Three Men and a Cradle - 18 Years Later as Julie
- 2002 · A Day in the Life of French Cinema as Self
- 2001 · Chaos as Mamie
- 1999 · Doggy Bag as La mère
- 1999 · Belle Maman as Nicou
- 1998 · Vivement dimanche as Self
- 1998 · Vivement dimanche prochain as Self
- 1998 · À nous deux la vie as Fanny
- 1998 · La Grande Béké as Fleur de Mase de la Joucquerie
- 1997 · Une femme d'action as
- 1997 · Blood Sisters as Garance
- 1997 · La Voisine as
- 1996 · Sixième classique as Madame Cotelle
- 1996 · Ma femme me quitte as Margot Piquet
- 1995 · Les Filles du Lido as Henriette
- 1994 · Rendez-moi ma fille as Lou
- 1994 · I Can't Sleep as Ninon
- 1993 · Polly West est de retour as Polly West
- 1992 · The Sands of Time as Mme. Angelis
- 1992 · Pleins feux as Adeline Margaux
- 1990 · Stars 90 as self
- 1990 · My New Partner II as Simone
- 1989 · La Folle Journée (Le Mariage de Figaro) as Marceline
- 1987 · Le monde est à vous as Self
- 1987 · Sacrée soirée as self
- 1987 · Nulle part ailleurs as Self
- 1987 · Matin Bonheur as Self
- 1984 · La Chance aux chansons as Self
- 1983 · Folle Amanda as
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
- 1977 · Fan School as Self
- 1976 · 30 millions d'amis as Self
- 1975 · Système 2 as Self
- 1975 · Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- 1975 · Midi Première as Self
- 1972 · Midi trente as Self
- 1972 · Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- 1971 · Cadet Rousselle as Self
- 1971 · Cadet Rousselle as Self - Co-Host
- 1971 · Samedi soir as Self
- 1968 · À bout portant as Self
- 1964 · Hully Gully as Self
- 1959 · The Indestructible as
- 1959 · Discorama as Self
- 1957 · Mademoiselle and Her Gang as Agnès Bourdieux
- 1955 · La Madelon as Madeleine Thuilier dite La Madelon
- 1954 · Boom on Paris as Self
- 1953 · Double or Quits as The singer
- 1952 · Ils sont dans les vignes... as Rose Filhol
- 1951 · Paris Still Sings! as Self
- 1951 · Over the waves as Self
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self - French Singer
- 1947 · Une Belle Garce as
- 1946 · Devil and the Angel as Cabaret singer
- Future · Le Palmier as
- Future · Résistantes as Mère Madeleine en 1970