Editing Olympia (Paris) (section)

====Restitution====
In January 1946, the Olympia was restituted to him after a judgment by the ''[[tribunal de commerce]]'' (commercial courts).<ref name=":8"/>

On 24 July 1946, it was reopened for public screenings with the [[Archie Mayo]] film ''[[Crash Dive]]''. Throughout the years, the theater hosted a series of films by [[Alfred Hitchcock]] and films from [[Lists of French films#1940s|French producers]] such as [[Julien Duvivier]] and [[Claude Autant-Lara]].<ref name=":8"/> By 1949, however, Olympia's occupancy rates marked a steady decline, due to the rivalry between Paris' movie theaters and the declining importance of films, despite the success of a few blockbusters, and even under the supervision of the executive [[Arts administration|administrator]] Pierre Vercel.<ref name=":8"/> Haïk died in 1950.<ref>{{cite book |last=B. Chan |first=Anthony |date=2007 |title=Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong (1905–1961) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CUJI-hFSGNIC&pg=PA51 |page=51 |publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]] |location=Paris | volume=103 | series=The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series |isbn=978-1-4616-7041-4 }}</ref><ref name="Haik-MR"/>

At that time, [[Bruno Coquatrix]] was executive director at [[Comédie-Caumartin]] and endured artistic and commercial failures there.<ref name=":16">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |date=7 August 2019 |title=L'Olympia, temple du music-hall... |url=https://www.ina.fr/contenus-editoriaux/articles-editoriaux/l-olympia-temple-du-music-hall/ |url-status=live |language=fr |work=[[Institut national de l'audiovisuel]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210527204243/https://www.ina.fr/contenus-editoriaux/articles-editoriaux/l-olympia-temple-du-music-hall/ |archive-date=27 May 2021 |access-date=27 May 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chantefrance.com/artist/3494-bruno-coquatrix/biographie |title=Biographie de Bruno Coquatrix |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=31 July 2015 |website=[[Chante France]] | language=fr |access-date=21 May 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210521214350/https://www.chantefrance.com/artist/3494-bruno-coquatrix/biographie |archive-date=21 May 2021 }}</ref> He was the [[impresario]] of [[Édith Piaf]] in the [[1940s#Musicians|1940s]] and was also a songwriter, conductor, and [[jazz]] saxophonist.<ref name="Préhu2018">{{cite magazine |last=Préhu |first=Dominique |date=20 June 2018 |title=Paulette Coquatrix... |trans-title=The artists were all her children! |url=https://www.francedimanche.fr/actualites/paulette-coquatrix-les-artistes-etaient-tous-ses-gosses |url-status=live |language=fr |magazine=France Dimanche |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210522205218/https://www.francedimanche.fr/actualites/paulette-coquatrix-les-artistes-etaient-tous-ses-gosses |archive-date=22 May 2021 |access-date=22 May 2021 }}</ref> He was also known to be the [[Talent agent|agent]] of [[Léo Marjane]] and Lucienne Boyer.<ref name=":3"/>

In 1952, Coquatrix signed a commercial [[lease agreement]] with Jeanne Haïk,<ref name=":3"/> owner of the Olympia and director of her late husband's businesses.<ref>{{cite book |author=Commission française des archives juives |date=1998 |title=Archives Juives, Volumes 31 à 32 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5GssAQAAIAAJ |page=117 |language=fr |publisher=[[Presses Universitaires de France]] |location=Paris  }}</ref> The Olympia was in a "pitiful state" when Coquatrix took over as a manager and executive director.<ref name=":3"/> Nevertheless, he continued using it as a cinema and created operettas there in 1953.<ref name="Goldemberg"/><ref name=":8"/> However, the downward trend of attendance signaled an impending bankruptcy.<ref name=":8"/>