Ray Ventura

Raymond Ventura (16 April 1908, Paris, France – 29 March 1979, Palma de Mallorca, Spain) was a French jazz pianist and bandleader. He helped popularize jazz in France in the 1930s. His nephew was singer Sacha Distel. Ventura was born to a Jewish family. In 1925 he was the pianist for the Collegiate Five, which recorded as the Collegians for Columbia beginning in 1928 and for Decca in the 1930s. A year later he led the band, and it became a dance orchestra resembling a big band. His sidemen included Alix Combelle, Philippe Brun, and Guy Paquinet. In the early 1940s he led a big band in South America and in France during the rest of the decade. One of his band's popular songs from 1936 was "Tout va très bien, Madame la Marquise" in which the Marquise is told by her servants that everything is fine at home except for a series of escalating calamities. It was seen as a metaphor for France's obliviousness to the approaching war. Source: Article "Ray Ventura" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For: Production

Born: Paris, France, 1908-04-16

Died: 1979-03-29

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1935	Le Billet de mille		0
2	1936	Adventure in Paris		60
3	1936	Everything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise		100
4	1938	Quadrille	Himself (as Ray Ventura et ses Collégiens)	60
5	1939	Feux de joie	Self	40
6	1939	Whirlwind of Paris	Self	65
7	1948	Mademoiselle Has Fun	Self	53
8	1950	We Will All Go to Paris	Self	52
9	1951	Monte Carlo Baby	Self	68
10	1953	One Hundred Francs Per Second	Self	53
11	1953	Femmes de Paris	Self	65
12	1963	L'assassin connaît la musique	Self (uncredited)	77

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	Cinépanorama	Self	80
2	1971	Samedi soir	Self	60
3	1975	Numéro un	Self	60
4	1984	La Chance aux chansons	Self (archive footage)	40

Ray Ventura

Film

Television