Juliette Gréco

Juliette Gréco

Juliette Gréco (7 February 1927 – 23 September 2020) was a French singer and actress. Her best known songs are "Paris Canaille" (1962, originally sung by Léo Ferré), "La Javanaise" (1963, written by Serge Gainsbourg for Gréco) and "Déshabillez-moi" (1967). She often sang tracks with lyrics written by French poets such as Jacques Prévert and Boris Vian, as well as singers like Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour. Her 60-year career came to an end in 2015 when she began her last worldwide tour titled "Merci". As an actress, Gréco played roles in films by French directors such as Jean Cocteau and Jean-Pierre Melville. Juliette Gréco was born in Montpellier, France, to an absent Corsican father, Gérard Gréco; her mother Juliette Lafeychine (1899–1978) was from Bordeaux. Her lineage hails in part from Greece. She did not receive love from her mother in her childhood and suffered from her harsh comments due to being an unwanted child, such as "You ain't my daughter. You're the child of rape". She was raised by her maternal grandparents in Bordeaux with her older sister Charlotte. After the death of her grandparents, her mother took them to Paris. In 1938, she became a ballerina at the Opéra Garnier. When World War II began, the family returned to the southwest of France. Gréco was a student at the Institut Royal d'éducation Sainte Jeanne d'Arc in Montauban. The Gréco family became active in the Resistance and her mother was arrested in 1943. The two sisters decided to move back to Paris but were captured and tortured by the Gestapo, then imprisoned in Fresnes Prison in September 1943. Her mother and sister were deported to Ravensbrück while Juliette, being only 16, remained in prison for several months before being released. After her release, she walked the eight miles back to Paris to retrieve her belongings from the Gestapo headquarters. Her former French teacher and her mother's friend, Hélène Duc, decided to take care of her. In 1945, Gréco's mother and sister returned from deportation after the liberation of Ravensbrück by the Red Army. Gréco moved to Saint-Germain-des-Prés in 1945 after her mother moved to Indochina, leaving Gréco and her sister behind. Gréco became a devotee of the bohemian fashion of some intellectuals of post-war France. Duc sent her to attend acting classes given by Solange Sicard. She made her debut in the play Victor ou les Enfants au pouvoir in November 1946 and began to host a radio show dedicated to poetry. Her friend Jean-Paul Sartre installed her at the Hotel La Louisiane and commented that Greco had "millions of poems in her voice". She was known to many of the writers and artists working in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, such as Albert Camus, Jacques Prévert and Boris Vian, thus gaining the nickname la Muse de l'existentialisme. Gréco spent the post-Liberation years frequenting the Saint-Germain-des-Prés cafes, immersing herself in political and philosophical bohemian culture. As a regular at music and poetry venues like Le Tabou on Rue Dauphine, she was acquainted with Jean Cocteau, and was given a role in Cocteau's film Orphée (1950). ... Source: Article "Juliette Gréco" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For: Acting

Born: Montpellier, Hérault, France, 1927-02-07

Died: 2020-09-23

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Bouquinquant Brothers	Nun	70
2	1949	The Sinners	Rachel	61
3	1950	Orpheus	Aglaonice	76
4	1950	Disorder	Self	50
5	1951	Without Leaving an Address	La chanteuse	61
6	1952	The Green Glove	Singer (scenes deleted)	62
7	1953	When You Read This Letter	Thérèse Voise	60
8	1954	Boom on Paris	Self	54
9	1954	Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances	Self	0
10	1956	Elena and Her Men	Miarka, la gitane	59
11	1956	The Lebanese Mission	Maroussia	25
12	1956	Man and Child	Nicky Nistakos	50
13	1957	The Sun Also Rises	Georgette Aubin	59
14	1957	It Happened on the 36 Candles	Self (uncredited)	20
15	1958	Bonjour Tristesse	Herself	66
16	1958	The Naked Earth	Maria	0
17	1958	The Roots of Heaven	Minna	62
18	1959	Whirlpool	Lora	62
19	1960	Crack in the Mirror	Eponine / Florence	75
20	1961	The Big Gamble	Marie	57
21	1962	Where the Truth Lies	Myriam Heller	66
22	1963	38-24-36	Self	0
23	1964	Cherchez l'idole	Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan's show (uncredited)	62
24	1965	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Dinah	57
25	1965	Love at Sea	Film Actress	70
26	1967	The Night of the Generals	Juliette	68
27	1973	Barbara ou ma plus belle histoire d'amour	Self	80
28	1975	Lily aime-moi	Flo	60
29	1981	Droit de Réponse	Self	100
30	1999	Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon	Self	0
31	2001	Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre	Woman in the cemetary	46
32	2002	Everyman's Feast	Yvonne Becker	20
33	2004	Days and Nights in Paris	Self	0
34	2006	Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe	Self	0
35	2010	Gainsbourg and His Girls	Self - Singer (voice)	41
36	2012	Juliette Gréco, l'insoumise	Herself	0
37	2015	Hôtel La Louisiane	Self	0
38	2016	Vadim Mister Cool	Self (archive footage)	62
39	2017	The Incredible Mr. Piccoli	Self - Actress (archive footage)	69
40	2018	On l'appelait Roda	Self	52
41	2019	Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool	Self - Singer	72
42	2021	François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story	Self (archive footage)	60
43	2022	La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président	Self (archive footage)	72

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1955	What Am I?	Self	65
3	1956	Cinépanorama	Self	80
4	1959	Discorama	Self	0
5	1959	Stars in the Ring	Self	53
6	1962	Lieben Sie Show ?	Self	0
7	1963	Tonight in Person	Self	70
8	1964	Einer wird gewinnen	Self	70
9	1965	Belphegor, or The Phantom of the Louvre	Laurence Borel	69
10	1968	Night-Club	Self	0
11	1968	À bout portant	Self	80
12	1971	V.I.P. Schaukel	Self	60
13	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
14	1972	Midi trente	Self	60
15	1975	Musik ist Trumpf	Self	60
16	1975	Apostrophes	Self	85
17	1975	Numéro un	Self	60
18	1978	Bio’s Bahnhof	Self	0
19	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
20	1984	La Chance aux chansons	Self	40
21	1985	Victoires de la musique	Self	20
22	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	65
23	1987	Le monde est à vous	Self	0
24	1990	Stars 90	Self	62
25	1996	Das große Los	Self	0
26	1998	Vivement dimanche	Self	30

Juliette Gréco

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