Marie Laforêt
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Marie Laforêt is a French singer and actress, (born Maïténa Marie Brigitte Doumenach, on 5 October 1939, in Soulac-sur-Mer
, Gironde).
In 1978 she moved to Geneva
, Switzerland and took out Swiss nationality.
origin, means "beloved", and is sometimes used by the inhabitants of Languedoc
, especially of Pyrénées
and also resembles the diminutive of the name Marie-Thérèse , "Maïthé".
Doumenach, her last name, is Catalan
in origin – Domenicus or Domingo in Catalan.
Her birth name Maïtena Marie Brigitte Doumenach, and her repertoire which included pieces inspired from the world folklore
, have led to speculation of an Armenian
origin of her parents.
The singer herself used to define herself sometimes as "ariégeoise", i.e. from the region of Ariege
in the south of France.
, in Médoc
, in the villa "Rithé-Rilou", named after her aunt and her mother: Marie Thérese et Marie Louise Saint Guily. Her father's family, Doumenach, were originally from Olette
, a village in the Pyrénées Orientales, on the border of Têt
. Her paternal grand-grand-father, Louis Doumenach, led a textile factory at Lavelanet, in Ariege and his son, Charles-Joseph Doumenach, was colonel and municipal counsellor.
The singer's maternal grand father built "cabanons" in the resort of Soulac-sur-mer, in Gironde
in 1886.
.
During the Second World War, the artist's father, industry man, was captured and detained as a prisoner of war
in Germany until the liberation in May 1945.
Marie, her sister Alexandra and their mother knew a period of many hardships. At the age of three Marie suffered a sexual trauma
which affected her for longtime. During the war the Doumenachs found shelter at Cahors
and in the province of their ancestors Ariege, in the village Lavelanet
. After the war the family moved to Valenciennes
where the father led a factory for railways utensils, and later they settled in Paris.
After becoming more religious and having considered becoming a nun, Marie continued her secondary studies at the Lycee La Fontaine
in Paris. There she began to show interest for the dramatic arts and her first experiences in this domain proved to be therapeutically useful for her through their cathartic effect
.
then cast the young starlet in the film he was shooting at the time, Liberté, a project he finally abandoned, making Laforêt's first appearance on screen opposite actor Alain Delon
in René Clément's 1960 drama Plein Soleil.
After this film she became very popular and interpreted many roles in the 1960s. She married director Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
, who cast her in some of his own works, including La Fille aux Yeux d'Or (The Girl with the Golden Eyes
), based on the Balzac story, which would become her nickname.
In her second film, Saint Tropezi Blues, accompanied by a young Jacques Higelin
at the guitar, she sang the title song and immediately started releasing singles, her first hit being 1963's Les Vendanges de l'Amour. Her songs offered a more mature, poetic, tender alternative to the light, teenage yé-yé
tunes charting in France at the time. Her melodies borrowed more from exotic folk music
, especially South American and Eastern European, than from contemporary American and British pop acts. Laforêt worked with many important French composers, musicians and lyricists, such as André Popp
and Pierre Cour, who provided her with a panoply of colorful, sophisticated orchestral arrangements, featuring dozens of musical instruments and creating a variety of sounds, sometimes almost Medieval, Renaissance
or Baroque
, other times quite modern and innovative.
, which expected of her more upbeat, simpler songs. She was interested in making more personal records, but finally gave in. Although her most financially successful singles ("Viens, Viens", a cover of the German hit ″Rain Rain Rain″, and "Il a neigé sur Yesterday", a ballad about the break-up of the Beatles) were released in the 1970s, Marie progressively lost interest in her singing career, moving to Geneva, Switzerland in 1978, where she opened an art gallery and abandoned music.
Laforêt has been fond of folk music ever since she began recording in the early 1960s. She helped popularize the Bob Dylan
song "Blowin' in the Wind
" in France with her 1963 interpretation. On the B-side of the same EP
she sings the classic American folk ballad "House of the Rising Sun". Other folk recordings include: "Viens sur la montagne", a 1964 French adaptation of the African-American spiritual
"Go Tell It on the Mountain
", recorded by American folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary
the previous year, "Coule doux" (Hush-a-Bye), another Peter, Paul and Mary song, 1966's "Sur les chemins des Andes", a French version of the traditional Peruvian song "El Cóndor Pasa
", and "La voix du silence", a 1966 cover of American duo Simon and Garfunkel
's first hit, "The Sound of Silence
".
Marie Laforêt, the rocker
She also recorded some rock songs in the 1960s, her most famous being "Marie-douceur, Marie-colère", a 1966 cover of the Rolling Stones hit "Paint It Black". Another popular recording was 1965's girl group
-style "A demain, my darling", known by English-speakers as "The Sha La La Song" written by Marianne Faithfull
on her debut eponymous album.
Marie Laforêt, the pop singer
Some of her most memorable pop songs are those written or arranged by French composer André Popp
, such as "Entre toi et moi", "L'amour en fleurs", "Les noces de campagne", "Mon amour, mon ami", and "Manchester et Liverpool". The melody of the latter song gained fame in the former Soviet Union
as the background music to the Vremya
television news programme's weather forecast in the 1970s.
Other important records
The quiet, bittersweet and minimally arranged ballad "Je voudrais tant que tu comprennes" (1966), composed by Francis Lai
, is a Marie Laforêt favorite. Homage was paid to the song in the 1980s when French pop superstar Mylène Farmer
added it to her own concert repertoire.
Marie's 1977 hit "Il a neigé sur Yesterday", perhaps her most well-known recording, was penned by musician Jean-Claude Petit
, and lyricist Michel Jourdan, (famous for his work with Dalida
, Nana Mouskouri
, Michel Fugain
and Mike Brant
) and who had written the words for earlier Laforêt songs, such as "Les vendanges de l'amour" and "L'orage".
The 1973 hit "Viens, viens" was a cover version of a German song "Rain, Rain, Rain" performed by Simon Butterfly.
1960s LPs
Soulac-sur-Mer
Soulac-sur-Mer is a commune in the Gironde department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Gironde).
In 1978 she moved to Geneva
Geneva
Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...
, Switzerland and took out Swiss nationality.
The sources of her birth name
Her first name Maïtena, which is of BasqueBasque people
The Basques as an ethnic group, primarily inhabit an area traditionally known as the Basque Country , a region that is located around the western end of the Pyrenees on the coast of the Bay of Biscay and straddles parts of north-central Spain and south-western France.The Basques are known in the...
origin, means "beloved", and is sometimes used by the inhabitants of Languedoc
Languedoc
Languedoc is a former province of France, now continued in the modern-day régions of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées in the south of France, and whose capital city was Toulouse, now in Midi-Pyrénées. It had an area of approximately 42,700 km² .-Geographical Extent:The traditional...
, especially of Pyrénées
Pyrenees
The Pyrenees is a range of mountains in southwest Europe that forms a natural border between France and Spain...
and also resembles the diminutive of the name Marie-Thérèse , "Maïthé".
Doumenach, her last name, is Catalan
Catalan language
Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
in origin – Domenicus or Domingo in Catalan.
Her birth name Maïtena Marie Brigitte Doumenach, and her repertoire which included pieces inspired from the world folklore
Folklore
Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called...
, have led to speculation of an Armenian
Armenians
Armenian people or Armenians are a nation and ethnic group native to the Armenian Highland.The largest concentration is in Armenia having a nearly-homogeneous population with 97.9% or 3,145,354 being ethnic Armenian....
origin of her parents.
The singer herself used to define herself sometimes as "ariégeoise", i.e. from the region of Ariege
Ariège
Ariège is a department in southwestern France named after the Ariège River.- History :Ariège is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from the counties of Foix and Couserans....
in the south of France.
Her childhood and adolescence
Marie Laforêt was born at Soulac-sur-MerSoulac-sur-Mer
Soulac-sur-Mer is a commune in the Gironde department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, in Médoc
Médoc
The Médoc is a region of France, well known as a wine growing region, located in the département of Gironde, on the left bank of the Gironde estuary, north of Bordeaux. Its name comes from Medullicus, or "country of the Medulli", the local Celtic tribe...
, in the villa "Rithé-Rilou", named after her aunt and her mother: Marie Thérese et Marie Louise Saint Guily. Her father's family, Doumenach, were originally from Olette
Olette
Olette is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.-Demography:-References:*...
, a village in the Pyrénées Orientales, on the border of Têt
Tet
Tet can mean:*Tết or Tết Nguyên Đán, the Vietnamese new year**Tet Offensive, a military campaign that began in 1968*Têt in Roussillon, France*Equal temperament, abbreviated as 12-TET, 19-TET and so on...
. Her paternal grand-grand-father, Louis Doumenach, led a textile factory at Lavelanet, in Ariege and his son, Charles-Joseph Doumenach, was colonel and municipal counsellor.
The singer's maternal grand father built "cabanons" in the resort of Soulac-sur-mer, in Gironde
Gironde
For the Revolutionary party, see Girondists.Gironde is a common name for the Gironde estuary, where the mouths of the Garonne and Dordogne rivers merge, and for a department in the Aquitaine region situated in southwest France.-History:...
in 1886.
.
During the Second World War, the artist's father, industry man, was captured and detained as a prisoner of war
Prisoner of war
A prisoner of war or enemy prisoner of war is a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict...
in Germany until the liberation in May 1945.
Marie, her sister Alexandra and their mother knew a period of many hardships. At the age of three Marie suffered a sexual trauma
Psychological trauma
Psychological trauma is a type of damage to the psyche that occurs as a result of a traumatic event...
which affected her for longtime. During the war the Doumenachs found shelter at Cahors
Cahors
Cahors is the capital of the Lot department in south-western France.Its site is dramatic being contained on three sides within an udder shaped twist in the river Lot known as a 'presqu'île' or peninsula...
and in the province of their ancestors Ariege, in the village Lavelanet
Lavelanet
Lavelanet is a commune in the Ariège department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in southwestern France.-Population:Its inhabitants are called Lavelanetiens.-Tour de France:...
. After the war the family moved to Valenciennes
Valenciennes
Valenciennes is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.It lies on the Scheldt river. Although the city and region had seen a steady decline between 1975 and 1990, it has since rebounded...
where the father led a factory for railways utensils, and later they settled in Paris.
After becoming more religious and having considered becoming a nun, Marie continued her secondary studies at the Lycee La Fontaine
Lycée La Fontaine (Paris)
Lycée Jean-de-La-Fontaine is a lycée in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.The school building, in the shape of an "open rectangle", was constructed on top of ancient fortifications. Construction began in 1935 and finished in 1938. Towards the end of World War II it was used as an American...
in Paris. There she began to show interest for the dramatic arts and her first experiences in this domain proved to be therapeutically useful for her through their cathartic effect
Catharsis
Catharsis or katharsis is a Greek word meaning "cleansing" or "purging". It is derived from the verb καθαίρειν, kathairein, "to purify, purge," and it is related to the adjective καθαρός, katharos, "pure or clean."-Dramatic uses:...
.
The 1960s
Her career began accidentally in 1959 when she replaced her sister at the last minute in a French radio talent contest Naissance d'une étoile (birth of a star) and won. Director Louis MalleLouis Malle
Louis Malle was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He worked in both French cinema and Hollywood. His films include Ascenseur pour l'échafaud , Atlantic City , and Au revoir, les enfants .- Early years in France :Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries,...
then cast the young starlet in the film he was shooting at the time, Liberté, a project he finally abandoned, making Laforêt's first appearance on screen opposite actor Alain Delon
Alain Delon
Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon is a French actor. He rose quickly to stardom, and by the age of 23 was already being compared to French actors such as Gérard Philipe and Jean Marais, as well as American actor James Dean. He was even called the male Brigitte Bardot...
in René Clément's 1960 drama Plein Soleil.
After this film she became very popular and interpreted many roles in the 1960s. She married director Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
Jean-Gabriel Albicocco was a French film director.In 1960 he married French actress and singer Marie Laforêt...
, who cast her in some of his own works, including La Fille aux Yeux d'Or (The Girl with the Golden Eyes
The Girl with the Golden Eyes
La Fille aux yeux d'or is a novella by Honoré de Balzac. It is the third part of the Thirteen series, which includes the short stories Ferragus and La Duchesse de Langeais...
), based on the Balzac story, which would become her nickname.
In her second film, Saint Tropezi Blues, accompanied by a young Jacques Higelin
Jacques Higelin
Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin is a French pop singer who rose to prominence in the early 1970s. Early in his career, many of Higelin's songs were effectively blacklisted from French radio because of his controversial left wing political beliefs, and his association with socialist groups...
at the guitar, she sang the title song and immediately started releasing singles, her first hit being 1963's Les Vendanges de l'Amour. Her songs offered a more mature, poetic, tender alternative to the light, teenage yé-yé
Yé-yé
Yé-yé was a style of pop music that emerged from France, Québec and Spain in the early 1960s. The term "yé-yé" derived from "yeah! yeah!" The style expanded worldwide, due to the success of figures such as the French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg....
tunes charting in France at the time. Her melodies borrowed more from exotic folk music
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
, especially South American and Eastern European, than from contemporary American and British pop acts. Laforêt worked with many important French composers, musicians and lyricists, such as André Popp
André Popp
André Charles Jean Popp is a French composer, arranger and screenwriter.Born in Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée, he started his career as a church organist, filling the place of his father who had been called up to serve in World War II in 1939. Popp studied music at the Saint Joseph Institute...
and Pierre Cour, who provided her with a panoply of colorful, sophisticated orchestral arrangements, featuring dozens of musical instruments and creating a variety of sounds, sometimes almost Medieval, Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
or Baroque
Baroque
The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
, other times quite modern and innovative.
The 1970s
At the end of the 1960s, Marie had become a rather distinctive figure in the French pop scene. Her music stood out, perhaps too much for her new label CBS RecordsCBS Records
CBS Records is a record label founded by CBS Corporation in 2006 to take advantage of music from its entertainment properties owned by CBS Television Studios. The initial label roster consisted of only three artists; rock band Señor Happy and singer/songwriters Will Dailey and P.J...
, which expected of her more upbeat, simpler songs. She was interested in making more personal records, but finally gave in. Although her most financially successful singles ("Viens, Viens", a cover of the German hit ″Rain Rain Rain″, and "Il a neigé sur Yesterday", a ballad about the break-up of the Beatles) were released in the 1970s, Marie progressively lost interest in her singing career, moving to Geneva, Switzerland in 1978, where she opened an art gallery and abandoned music.
1980 to today
In the 1980s, Marie concentrated on her acting career, appearing in a few French and Italian films. Some music singles were eventually released, but were not popular. She made a comeback, however, in 1993 with her final album, for which she wrote the lyrics. In the 1990s, she again continued to work as an actress, both on screen and on stage. She has performed in a number of plays in Paris over the years, acclaimed by audiences and critics alike. In September 2005 she sang once again, going on tour in France for the first time since 1972. Every concert was sold out. Laforêt still currently resides in Geneva and has obtained Swiss citizenship.Records
Marie Laforêt, the folk singerLaforêt has been fond of folk music ever since she began recording in the early 1960s. She helped popularize the Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
song "Blowin' in the Wind
Blowin' in the Wind
"Blowin' in the Wind" is a song written by Bob Dylan and released on his album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in 1963. Although it has been described as a protest song, it poses a series of questions about peace, war and freedom...
" in France with her 1963 interpretation. On the B-side of the same EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
she sings the classic American folk ballad "House of the Rising Sun". Other folk recordings include: "Viens sur la montagne", a 1964 French adaptation of the African-American spiritual
Spiritual (music)
Spirituals are religious songs which were created by enslaved African people in America.-Terminology and origin:...
"Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain (song)
"Go Tell It on the Mountain" is an African-American spiritual song, compiled by John Wesley Work, Jr., dating back to at least 1865, that has been sung and recorded by many gospel and secular performers...
", recorded by American folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary
Peter, Paul and Mary
Peter, Paul and Mary were an American folk-singing trio whose nearly 50-year career began with their rise to become a paradigm for 1960s folk music. The trio was composed of Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey and Mary Travers...
the previous year, "Coule doux" (Hush-a-Bye), another Peter, Paul and Mary song, 1966's "Sur les chemins des Andes", a French version of the traditional Peruvian song "El Cóndor Pasa
El Cóndor Pasa (song)
El Cóndor Pasa is a song from the zarzuela El Cóndor Pasa by the Peruvian composer Daniel Alomía Robles, written in 1913 and based on traditional Andean folk tunes....
", and "La voix du silence", a 1966 cover of American duo Simon and Garfunkel
Simon and Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel are an American duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel. They formed the group Tom & Jerry in 1957 and had their first success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl". As Simon & Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965, largely on the strength of the...
's first hit, "The Sound of Silence
The Sound of Silence
"The Sound of Silence" is the song that propelled the 1960s folk music duo Simon & Garfunkel to popularity. It was written in February 1964 by Paul Simon in the aftermath of the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy. An initial version preferred by the band was remixed and sweetened, and has become...
".
Marie Laforêt, the rocker
She also recorded some rock songs in the 1960s, her most famous being "Marie-douceur, Marie-colère", a 1966 cover of the Rolling Stones hit "Paint It Black". Another popular recording was 1965's girl group
Girl group
A girl group is a popular music act featuring several young female singers who generally harmonise together.Girl groups emerged in the late 1950s as groups of young singers teamed up with behind-the-scenes songwriters and music producers to create hit singles, often featuring glossy production...
-style "A demain, my darling", known by English-speakers as "The Sha La La Song" written by Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Evelyn Faithfull is an award-winning English singer, songwriter and actress whose career has spanned five decades....
on her debut eponymous album.
Marie Laforêt, the pop singer
Some of her most memorable pop songs are those written or arranged by French composer André Popp
André Popp
André Charles Jean Popp is a French composer, arranger and screenwriter.Born in Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée, he started his career as a church organist, filling the place of his father who had been called up to serve in World War II in 1939. Popp studied music at the Saint Joseph Institute...
, such as "Entre toi et moi", "L'amour en fleurs", "Les noces de campagne", "Mon amour, mon ami", and "Manchester et Liverpool". The melody of the latter song gained fame in the former Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
as the background music to the Vremya
Vremya
Vremya is the state television newscast of the Russian Federation and is shown on Channel One Russia and previously on the First Programme of the Central Television of the USSR...
television news programme's weather forecast in the 1970s.
Other important records
The quiet, bittersweet and minimally arranged ballad "Je voudrais tant que tu comprennes" (1966), composed by Francis Lai
Francis Lai
Francis Lai is a French accordionist, and composer noted for his film scores.While in his twenties, Francis Lai left home and went to Paris where he became part of the lively Montmartre music scene...
, is a Marie Laforêt favorite. Homage was paid to the song in the 1980s when French pop superstar Mylène Farmer
Mylène Farmer
Mylène Farmer, , born Marie-Hélène Jeanne Gautier, , , is a French singer, songwriter, occasional actress and author....
added it to her own concert repertoire.
Marie's 1977 hit "Il a neigé sur Yesterday", perhaps her most well-known recording, was penned by musician Jean-Claude Petit
Jean-Claude Petit
Jean-Claude Petit is a French composer and arranger, born in Vaires-sur-Marne. After accompanying jazzmen in his childhood, Petit went to the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied harmony and counterpoint...
, and lyricist Michel Jourdan, (famous for his work with Dalida
Dalida
Dalida , born with Italian name of Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti, was a world-famous singer and actress born in Egypt with Italian origins but naturalised French with the name Yolanda Gigliotti. She spent her early years in Egypt amongst the Italian Egyptian community, but she lived most of her adult...
, Nana Mouskouri
Nana Mouskouri
Nana Mouskouri , born Ioánna Moúschouri on October 13, 1934, in Chania, Crete, Greece, is a Greek singer who has sold about 300 million records worldwide in a career spanning over five decades, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. She was known as Nána to her friends and...
, Michel Fugain
Michel Fugain
Michel Fugain is a French singer and composer. Originally he released music along with his singers and dancers entitled "Le Big Bazar" but went for a more solo approach 1977. In 1969 he published his first album: Je n'aurai pas le temps...
and Mike Brant
Mike Brant
Mike Brant was an Israeli pop star who achieved fame after moving to France. His most successful hit was "Laisse-moi t'aimer"...
) and who had written the words for earlier Laforêt songs, such as "Les vendanges de l'amour" and "L'orage".
The 1973 hit "Viens, viens" was a cover version of a German song "Rain, Rain, Rain" performed by Simon Butterfly.
Filmography
- 1960 : Plein Soleil : Marge Duval, René Clément
- 1961 : Saint Tropez Blues : Anne-Marie, Marcel MoussyMarcel MoussyMarcel Moussy was a French screenwriter and television director. He was co-nominated with François Truffaut for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for the film The 400 Blows ....
- 1961 : La Fille aux yeux d'or (The Girl with the Golden Eyes) : the girl, Jean-Gabriel AlbicoccoJean-Gabriel AlbicoccoJean-Gabriel Albicocco was a French film director.In 1960 he married French actress and singer Marie Laforêt...
- 1961 : Les Amours Célèbres : Mlle Georges, Michel BoisrondMichel BoisrondMichel Jacques Boisrond was a French film director and writer...
- 1962 : Le Rat d'Amérique, Jean-Gabriel AlbicoccoJean-Gabriel AlbicoccoJean-Gabriel Albicocco was a French film director.In 1960 he married French actress and singer Marie Laforêt...
- 1962 : Leviathan : Angèle, Léonard Keigel
- 1963 : Cherchez l'idole, Michel BoisrondMichel BoisrondMichel Jacques Boisrond was a French film director and writer...
- 1963 : À cause, à cause d'une femme : Agathe, Michel DevilleMichel DevilleMichel Deville is a French film director and screenwriter.Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors...
- 1964 : La Chasse à l'homme : Gisèle, Édouard MolinaroÉdouard MolinaroÉdouard Molinaro is a French film director, actor, and screenwriter. He was born in Gironde, Bordeaux.He is best known for his comedies with Louis de Funès , My Uncle Benjamin , Dracula and Son , and the Academy Award-nominated La Cage aux Folles Édouard Molinaro (born 13 May 1928) is a French...
- 1965 : Cent briques et des tuilesCent briques et des tuilesCent briques et des tuiles is a 1965 French film directed by Pierre Grimblat....
: Ida, Pierre Grimblat - 1965 : La Soldatesse, Valerio ZurliniValerio ZurliniValerio Zurlini was an Italian film director, stage director and screenwriter.-Biography:During his law studies in Rome, he started working in the theatre. In 1943, he joined the Italian resistance. Zurlini became a member of the Italian Communist Party...
- 1965 : Marie-Chantal contre le docteur KhaMarie-Chantal contre le docteur KhaMarie-Chantal contre le docteur Kha is a 1965 spy film directed by Claude Chabrol.-Cast:*Marie Laforêt : Marie-Chantal*Francisco Rabal : Paco Castillo*Serge Reggiani : Ivanov*Charles Denner : Johnson*Akim Tamiroff : Dr...
: Marie-Chantal, Claude ChabrolClaude ChabrolClaude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s... - 1967 : Le 13ème caprice : Fanny, Roger Boussinot
- 1967 : Jack of DiamondsJack of Diamonds (1967 film)Jack of Diamonds is a 1967 film directed by Don Taylor filmed in Germany that was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It stars George Hamilton in the lead role of an international cat burglar and jewel thief....
: Olga, Don TaylorDon Taylor (actor)Don Taylor was an American movie actor and director best known for his performances in 1950s classics like Stalag 17 and Father of the Bride and the 1948 film noir The Naked City... - 1972 : Le Petit Poucet (Tom Thumb) : the queen, Michel BoisrondMichel BoisrondMichel Jacques Boisrond was a French film director and writer...
- 1979 : Flic ou voyou : Edmonde Puget-Rostand, Georges LautnerGeorges LautnerGeorges Lautner is a French film director and screenwriter.He was born in Nice, the son of actress Renée Saint-Cyr.- As director :* 1958 : La Môme aux boutons* 1960 : Arrêtez les tambours* 1960 : Marche ou crève...
- 1982 : Les Diplômés du dernier rang : Dominique, Christian Gion
- 1982 : Que les gros salaires lèvent le doigt! : Rose, Denys Granier-Deferre
- 1984 : Les MorfalousLes MorfalousLes Morfalous is a 1984 action-comedy French film, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and directed by Henri Verneuil, featuring the French Foreign Legion during the Second World War.- Plot :...
: Hélène Laroche-Fréon, Henri VerneuilHenri VerneuilHenri Verneuil was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker, who enjoyed a successful career in France.-Biography:... - 1984 : Joyeuses Pâques : Sophie Margelle, Georges LautnerGeorges LautnerGeorges Lautner is a French film director and screenwriter.He was born in Nice, the son of actress Renée Saint-Cyr.- As director :* 1958 : La Môme aux boutons* 1960 : Arrêtez les tambours* 1960 : Marche ou crève...
- 1985 : Le Pactole : Greta Rousselet, Jean-Pierre MockyJean-Pierre MockyJean-Pierre Mocky is the pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer...
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Discography
1960s singles and EPs- 1960 : Saint-Tropez Blues / Tumbleweed
- 1963 : Tu fais semblant – Les vendanges de l'amour / Mary Ann – Les jeunes filles
- 1963 : Blowin' in the WindBlowin' in the Wind"Blowin' in the Wind" is a song written by Bob Dylan and released on his album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in 1963. Although it has been described as a protest song, it poses a series of questions about peace, war and freedom...
– Flora / House of the Rising Sun – Banks on the Ohio - 1963 : Au coeur de l'automne – L'amour en fleurs / Qu'est-ce qui fait pleurer les filles – Mais si loin de moi
- 1963 : La vendemmia dell'amore – E giusto / Una noia senza fine – Che male c'e
- 1964 : Viens sur la montagne – Les noces de campagne / Un amour qui s'éteint – L'amour qu'il fera demain
- 1964 : La tendresse – La plage / Après toi qui sait – L'arbre qui pleure
- 1965 : Katy cruelle – Entre toi et moi / La bague au doigt – Ma chanson faite pour toi
- 1965 : Ah ! Dites, dites – Julie Crèvecoeur / Viens – À demain my darling
- 1965 : La plage / Après toi, qui sait
- 1966 : La voix du silence (The Sound of SilenceThe Sound of Silence"The Sound of Silence" is the song that propelled the 1960s folk music duo Simon & Garfunkel to popularity. It was written in February 1964 by Paul Simon in the aftermath of the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy. An initial version preferred by the band was remixed and sweetened, and has become...
) – Siffle, siffle ma fille / Je t'attends – L'orage - 1966 : Marie-douceur, Marie-colère (Paint It Black) – Toi qui dors / Je voudrais tant que tu comprennes – La moisson
- 1966 : Manchester et Liverpool – Pourquoi ces nuages / Prenons le temps – Sur les chemins des Andes
- 1966 : Mon amour, mon ami – Sébastien / Je suis folle de vous – Mon village au fond de l'eau
- 1967 : Ivan, Boris et moi – Je ne peux rien promettre / Pour celui qui viendra – Tom
- 1968 : Le lit de Lola – Qu'y-a-t-il de changé / Et si je t'aime – A la gare de Manhattan
- 1968 : El polo – L'air que tu jouais pour moi / Le tengo rabia al silencio – House of the rising sun
- 1968 : Que calor la vida – Mais mon coeur est vide / La valse des petits chiens blancs – Requiem pour trois mariages
- 1969 : Au printemps – Roselyne / Feuilles d'or – D'être à vous
- 1969 : Pour une étoile – Ton coeur sauvage / Vin de l'été – En plus de l'amour
- 1969 : Ah ! Si mon moine – On n'oublie jamais / Tourne, tourne – La fleur sans nom
- 1969 : Tu es laide / Toi, nos enfants et moi
1960s LPs
- 1964 : Marie Laforêt
- 1965 : Marie Laforêt Vol. 2
- 1967 : Marie Laforêt Vol. 3
- 1968 : Marie Laforêt Vol. 4
- 1968 : Que calor la vida
- 1969 : Marie Laforêt Vol. 6
- 1970 : Marie Laforêt Vol. 7
Sources and external links
- Soulac-en-Médoc – Photos by Richard Zebulun, ed. Cairn, 2009.
- interview about her family life, in French
- some biographical data in Généalogie Magazine Nr 294. 2010
- Marie Laforet, celebrity in Switzerland – in French
- http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:PrKMObWjgTIJ:www.perezbrito.net/Arts_cinema_files/Equipe.pdf+Marie+Laforet+son+pere+Doumenach&hl=iw&gl=il&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESj8e_g3XYXWuBSILlFKcFHiIcc7DEiyt8GZQ6el8s9WUwGMWFfPxhc2a2KnmH5T5xxkLExCug8i2Dduzh9FeIJUKcLJIaxyKP1gjkbCSFZGiiOsQzNbkLNtsgMk_ab1k6ILe5bd&sig=AHIEtbTJ4m95abudqZOxKP6OP546EdYTXwbiography of Marie Laforet following Télé Melody, in French]
- a biography, archives de la musique de la semaine
- interview about the place of religion in her life
- about her career, 2005
- Illustrated Discography
- Pierre Saka,Yann Plougastel (dir.) – La Chanson française et francophone,Guide Totem, Larousse/HER, 1999, ISBN :2-03-511346-6