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Colette Renard (1 November 1924,
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– 6 October 2010,
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), born Colette Lucie Raget, was a French actress and singer. Renard is closely associated with the titular character from the musical ''
Irma La Douce ''Irma la Douce'' (, "Irma the Sweet") is a 1963 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond, based on the 1956 French stage musical of the same name by Marguerite Monnot and Alexa ...
'', a role she played for over a decade. Renard retired from theatre and film in the 1980s, returning in 2004 to play the role of Rachel Levy on ''
Plus belle la vie ''Plus belle la vie'' (More beautiful life) is a French television soap opera based on an idea by Hubert Besson and characters created by Georges Desmouceaux, Bénédicte Achard, Magaly Richard-Serrano and Olivier Szulzynger. On air since 30 Augus ...
''. In addition to acting, Renard was a prolific singer, having released 52 albums during her career.


Discography


Studio albums

* 1957: ''Chante Paris'' (double 25 cm) * 1958: ''Chante la vieille France'' (25 cm) * 1958: ''Envoie la musique'' (25 cm) * 1960: ''Chansons gaillardes de la vieille France'' * 1961: ''Tête-à-tête avec Colette Renard'' * 1961: ''La chanson française'' * 1963: ''Chansons ''très'' libertines'' * 1965: ''Bon appétit...'' * 1966: ''Poèmes libertins du temps passé'' (triple 33 T) * 1966: ''Poèmes libertins du temps présent'' * 1967: ''1967 - La nouvelle Colette Renard'' * 1968: ''Irma la douce'' (double album of duets) * 1968: ''La chanson satirique de Charlemagne à Charles de Gaulle - 1ère époque'' (double album) * 1969: ''Chansons polissonnes'' * 1969: ''Paris-Montmartre'' * 1971: ''Liverpool la nuit'' * 1972: ''Chansons galantes'' * 1973: ''Au clocher de mon coeur'' (double album) * 1973: ''Chansons érotiques du royaume de France'' * 1975: ''Depuis le temps que je chante que je t'aime'' * 1978: ''Une valse bleue'' * 1979: ''Il y a des jours comme ça'' * 1983: ''B.O.F. Un amour de femme'' * 1986: ''Fables d'aujourd'hui'' (spoken word, written by Lucien Baumann) * 2002: ''Ceux qui s'aiment''


Live albums

* 1958: ''À l'Olympia - 10 chansons nouvelles'' (25 cm) * 1960: ''À l'Olympia - Volume 8'' * 1962: ''À l'Olympia'' * 1964: ''Récital 65'' * 1976: ''À Bobino''


Compilations

* 1987: ''Les grands succès'' (cd Vogue, 16 songs) * 1992: ''36 chansons gaillardes et libertines'' (double cd Vogue) * 2001: ''Colette Renard'' (Triple cd, Reader's Digest selection, 72 songs)


45 RPM

* 78 T Pacific 1998: La gorgonzola / Robinson Crusoë (1949) * EP Festival FX 451148M : Les filles du bucheron / A la belle étoile / Qu'elle est belle / Sous les pommiers (sortis sur deux 78 T en 1952, regroupés sur cet EP en 1958) * EP Vogue EPL 7273: Les godasses / Ferme-là / Simonetta / L'âge atomique (Rock Around The Island) (1956) * EP Vogue EPL 7293: L'arbre et l'homme / Les jouets / L'homme et l'araignée / Mon île (1956) * EP Vogue EPL 7300: ''Chante les airs d'Irma la douce'' : Avec les anges / Irma la douce / Y'a qu'Paris pour ça / Ah ! dis donc (1956) * EP Vogue EPL 7365: Quand t'auras mangé ta soupe / L'homme en habit / Calypso mélodie / Où va-t-on se nicher ? (1957) * EP Vogue EPL 7367: Zon, zon, zon / Sa casquette / Sur le pont St Louis / C'est du soleil de t'embrasser (1957) * EP Vogue EPL 7394: ''Chante les succès du film Un roi à New York'' : Mandoline amoureuse / Toi l'amour / La complainte des cœur purs / Sur les bords de Paris (1957) * EP Vogue EPL 7438: Croquemitoufle / Tais-toi Marseille / L'orphéon / A Paris, y'a tout ça (1958) * EP Vogue EPL 7440: Zon, zon, zon / Sa casquette / L'homme en habit / Où va-t'on se nicher ? (1958) * EP Vogue EPL 7440: ''Les chansons gaillardes de la vieille France'' : Les filles de La Rochelle / La femme du roulier / Sur la route de Louviers / Les trente brigands (1958) * EP Vogue EPL 7510: L'eau vive / Le bonheur / Envoie-la musique / Trois fois rien (1958) * EP Vogue EPL 7544: Ca, c'est d'la musique / L'enfant aux oranges / La Sainte-Flemme / C'est moi la java (1958) * EP Vogue EPL 7565: Le poète / Le soleil / Marie la bleue / La fleur des champs (1958) * EP Vogue EPL 7568: ''Noëls'' : Je n'ai pas eu de jouets / Serge et Nathalie / Drôle d'histoire / La Vierge à la crèche (1958) * EP Vogue EPL 7576: Le cheval de bois / La débine / Les chagrins d'amour / Faux-pas (1959) * EP Vogue EPL 7625: ''L'Opéra de quat'sous'' : Le chant des canons / La fiancée du pirate / La complainte de Mackie / La chanson de Barbara (1959) * EP Vogue EPL 7637: Mon homme est un guignol / Y veut de la java / Emmène-moi / Les regrets de jeunesse (1959) * EP Vogue EPL 7638: ''Chansons de films'' : Comment voulez-vous ? / Business / La complainte de Gaud / Bal de nuit (1959) * EP Vogue EPL 7652: ''Les chefs-d'oeuvre de la chanson française : Colette Renard chante la vieille France'' : À la claire fontaine / Le retour du marin / Va mon ami va / Aux marches du palais (1959) * EP Vogue EPL 7658: ''Chansons gaillardes de la vieille France'' : La puce / Le doigt gelé / En revenant du Piémont / Au clair de la lune (1959) * EP Vogue EPL 7664: C'est d'la musique / Tais-toi Marseille / L'orphéon / Marie la bleue (1959) * EP Vogue EPL 7700: Mes copains / T'as misé dans le mille / Qu'est-ce que t'as pu me faire / Le pauvre chien (1959) * EP Vogue EPL 7726: Petite annonce sentimentale / Les musiciens / Toi, l'inconnu / Le vendeur de roses (1960) * EP Vogue EPL 7730: Mon homme est un guignol / Je n'ai pas eu de jouets / Emmène-moi / Le bonheur (1960) * EP Vogue EPL 7775: La taxi girl / Ma rengaine / Je m'appelle Daysie / Des histoires (1960) * EP Vogue EPL 7806: 4,95 la charlotte / On cultive l'amour / T'es le roi / Rue du croissant (1961) * EP Vogue EPL 7823: La fille et le soldat / Comme un cygne blanc / La chanson pauvre / Paris a le cœur tendre (1961) * EP Vogue EPL 7865: Les p'tits français / Ma chanson lonla-lonlaine / Suis-moi t'en auras / Hôtel du nord (1961) * EP Vogue EPL 7874: La Marie du port / Les enfants de Paris / Quand sonneront les cloches / Ca m'chavire (1961) * EP Vogue EPL 7929: Charmante nature / Des souv'nirs, des souv'nirs / Ah ! Donnez m'en de la chanson / Bilissi (1962) * EP Vogue EPL 8061: Voir Naples et mourir / Professionnellement / Le grand partage / La samba des parisiennes (1962) * EP Vogue EPL 7931: Le marin et la rose / Sacré bistrot / Ils jouent de la trompette / C'est la vie (1962) * EP Vogue EPL 8074: Hardi Paname (version 45t) / Sur leur visage / J't'aimerai pas plus / Heureusement (1963) * 45t Vogue V.45.1076 : Le retour des héros / Alors, c'est pour quand ? (1963) * EP Vogue EPL 8141: La foraine / Ils voulaient voir la mer / Les nuits d'une demoiselle ersion soft expurgée(1963) * EP Vogue EPL 8183: Mon père et ma mère / La dernière petit note / Le truc / Chez Marie la vieille (1963) * EP Vogue EPL 8295: Le plumard / Assieds-toi donc sur ta valise / Le rencard / Elle ou moi (1964) * EP Vogue EPL 8332: Ah! Le petit vin blanc / Le chaland qui passe / Refrain des chevaux de bois / Ici l'on pèche (1965) * EP Vogue EPL 8375: Alfred Hitchcock / Mossieu Boby / Gibraltar story / La goélette et le capitaine (1965) * EP CBS 5676: ''Chante Jehanne Vérité'' : Un petit oiseau de Lorraine / Les chalands / Toutes les larmes / Les moutons (1966) * EP Decca 461.113M: Un piano / L'amour et les marées / Marie scandale (1967) * EP Decca 461.131M: Les maisons blanches / Je l'aime lui / Reste / Un garçon (1967) * 45t Decca 79.528: Un air pour rien / Y a du soleil dans ma chambre (1968) * 45t Decca 23.812: Je l'ai vécu 100 fois / Marine (1968) * 45t Decca 23.813: L'araignée / Ne riez pas de la bergère (1968) * 45t Decca 23.814: La romance de Paris / La rue de notre amour (1968) * 45t Emi/Pathé C006-11437: Lili Vertu / Changer de vie (1971) * 45t Vogue V.45.4138: ''Chante
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'' : Willkommen, Bienvenue... / Cabaret (1972) * EP Vogue 45.V.4211: ''Les chansons de la comédie "Folle Amanda"'' : Mon Polo / Mon coeur attend qui ? / Que c'est bon d'être amoureuse / C'est beau la vie (1973) * 45t Vogue 14098: B.O.F de
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''Prostitution'' (1975), 1 title: ''Demain'' (1976) * 45t Sonopresse 40289: Mirlitons / Je suis marionnette (1978) * 45t Carrère 13.137: ''Chante Vichy Dancing'' : Amoureuse / Nostalgies (1983)


Selected songs

* 1956: ''Ah ! Dis donc, dis donc'' (Lyrics: Alexandre Breffort, Music:
Marguerite Monnot Marguerite Monnot (28 May 1903 – 12 October 1961) was a French songwriter and composer best known for having written many of the songs performed by Édith Piaf ("Milord", " Hymne à l'amour") and for the music in the stage musical '' Irma La ...
) * 1957: ''Zon… zon… zon…'' (Lyrics: Maurice Vidalin, Music: Jacques Datin) * 1958: ''Tais-toi Marseille'' (Lyrics: Maurice Vidalin, Music: Jacques Datin) * 1958: ''Ça, c'est d'la musique'' (Lyrics: Michel Rivgauche, Music: Norbert Glanzberg) * 1958: ''Sa casquette'' (Lyrics: Fernand Bonifay, Music: Guy Magenta) * 1959: ''Mon homme est un guignol'' (Lyrics and music: Jil and Jan) * 1960: ''Des histoires'' (Lyrics:
Michel Vaucaire Michel Vaucaire (born 3 August 1904 in Brissago, Switzerland; died 18 June 1980 in Saint-Denis) was a French lyricist. He often collaborated with the composer Charles Dumont in whom he always had confidence to put his lyrics to music. He is perh ...
, Music: Charles Dumont) * 1961: ''Chanson tendre'' (Lyrics:
Francis Carco Francis Carco (born François Carcopino-Tusoli) (1886–1958) was a French author, born at Nouméa, New Caledonia. He was a poet, belonging to the ''Fantaisiste'' school, a novelist, a dramatist, and art critic for ''L'Homme libre'' and ''Gil Blas ...
, Music: Jacques Larmanjat) * 1962: ''Le marin et la rose'' (Lyrics and music: Huard Pingault) * 1979: ''Les lignes de ma vie'' * 2002: ''Ceux qui s'aiment'' (Lyrics: Colette Renard, Music:
François Rauber François Rauber (19 January 1933 – 14 December 2003) was a French pianist, composer, arranger and conductor known for his works with chansonnier Jacques Brel. He served as the music director for the 1975 film '' Jacques Brel Is Alive and ...
)


Bibliography

* Colette Renard, ''Raconte-moi ta chanson'', Grasset, 1998, 334 p.  * Colette Renard,'' Ceux qui s'aiment : bloc-notes 1956-2006'', edited by Pascal Maurice, Paris et Montréal, 2006, 64 p. 


Filmography


Film

* 1958: ', Josianne Mauvin * 1960: '' Business'', Léa * 1963: '' A King Without Distraction'' (''Un roi sans divertissement''), Clara * 1965: ''Les pieds dans le plâtre'', Irène * 1970: ''Clodo'', Mme Olga * 1992: ', Clarisse/Monique


Television

* 1964 : ''Pierrots des Alouettes'', musical comedy by Henri Spade, Martine * 1972: ''Les dossiers de Me Robineau: Les cagnards'' (TV movie), Gina * 1973: ''La vie rêvée de Vincent Scotto'' (TV movie), Fréhel * 1980: ''La chanson de Tiber'' (TV movie), Tiber Renarde * 1982: ''Mon petit âne, ma mère'' (TV movie) The mother * 1983: ''Vichy Dancing'' (TV movie), Véra Belmont * 1986: ''Noël au Congo'' (TV movie), Mme Martel * 1999: ''Justice'' (TV series), Olga * 2003: ''Maigret'' (TV series), Jacqueline Larrieux dite Jacotte * 2004: ''Docteur Dassin, généraliste'' (TV series), Mme Barry * 2004 - 2009: ''
Plus belle la vie ''Plus belle la vie'' (More beautiful life) is a French television soap opera based on an idea by Hubert Besson and characters created by Georges Desmouceaux, Bénédicte Achard, Magaly Richard-Serrano and Olivier Szulzynger. On air since 30 Augus ...
'' (TV series), Rachel Lévy * 2005: ''Le triporteur de Belleville'' (TV movie), Mme Belvèze


Theatre

* 1956: ''
Irma La Douce ''Irma la Douce'' (, "Irma the Sweet") is a 1963 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond, based on the 1956 French stage musical of the same name by Marguerite Monnot and Alexa ...
'' by Alexandre Breffort and
Marguerite Monnot Marguerite Monnot (28 May 1903 – 12 October 1961) was a French songwriter and composer best known for having written many of the songs performed by Édith Piaf ("Milord", " Hymne à l'amour") and for the music in the stage musical '' Irma La ...
, mise en scène
René Dupuy René Dupuy (17 May 1920 – 1 August 2009) was a French actor, theater director and theater manager. A student at the Conservatoire national d'art dramatique in Paris, René Dupuy was later theater manager of: * the Théâtre Gramont from 1954 ...
,
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* 1982: ''Un amour de femme'', songs by Michel Rivgauche, music by
Gérard Calvi Gérard Calvi (born Grégoire Krettly; 26 July 1922 – 20 February 2015) was a French composer. Interested in music from an early age, Calvi's first composing work was for the French production ''The Patron'' in 1949. From here he provided m ...
, mise en scène
Jean Meyer Jean Meyer Barth (born February 8, 1942) is a French-Mexican historian and author, known for his writings on early 20th-century Mexican history. He has published extensively on the Mexican Revolution and Cristero War, the history of Nayarit, and ...
,
Théâtre des Célestins The Théâtre des Célestins is a theatre building on Place des Célestins in Lyon, France. It was designed by Gaspard André, and inaugurated in 1877, then in 2005. Alongside the Comédie-Française and the théâtre de l'Odéon, it is one of fe ...


Distinctions and awards

* Grand prix of the
Académie Charles Cros The Académie Charles Cros (Charles Cros Academy) is an organization located in Chézy-sur-Marne, France, that acts as an intermediary between government cultural policy makers and professionals in music and the recording industry. The academy is ...
* Grand prix of the Académie du disque français * Grand prix of the Président de la République * Grand prix international du disque * Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres * Médaille de vermeil from the City of Paris


References


External links

*
Irma la douce - Colette Renard
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