Editing Yves Montand

{{Short description|French-Italian actor and singer (1921–1991)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Yves Montand
| image              = Yves Montand in ons land voor optreden in Koninklijke Schouwburg te Den Haag, Bestanddeelnr 917-4144 (cropped).jpg
| imagesize          = 
| caption            = Montand in 1965
| birth_name         = Ivo Livi
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|df=yes|1921|10|13}}
| birth_place        = [[Monsummano Terme]], Kingdom of Italy
| death_date         = {{Death date and age |df=yes|1991|11|9|1921|10|13}}
| death_place        = [[Senlis]], France
| occupation         = Actor, singer
| years_active       = 1946–1991
| spouse             = {{marriage|[[Simone Signoret]]|1951|1985|reason=died}}
| partner            = Carole Amiel (1987–1991)
| children           = 1
| relatives          = [[Jean-Louis Livi]] (nephew)
}}

'''Ivo Livi''' ({{IPA|it|ˈiːvo ˈliːvi}}; 13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991), better known as '''Yves Montand''' ({{IPA|fr|iv mɔ̃tɑ̃|lang}}), was an Italian-born French actor and singer. He is said to be one of France's greatest 20th-century artists.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-10-11 |title="Montand est à nous": le siècle d'Ivo Livi |url=https://www.francetelevisions.fr/et-vous/notre-tele/a-ne-pas-manquer/montand-est-a-nous-le-siecle-divo-livi-8319 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211013224613/https://www.francetelevisions.fr/et-vous/notre-tele/a-ne-pas-manquer/montand-est-a-nous-le-siecle-divo-livi-8319 |archive-date=2021-10-13 |access-date=2023-07-30 |website=France tv & vous |language=Fr}}</ref>

==Early life==
Montand was born Ivo Livi in Stignano, a small village in the hills of [[Monsummano Terme]], Italy, to Giovanni Livi, a broom manufacturer.<ref name="bookref1">{{cite book |last1=Montand |first1=Yves |title=You see, I haven't forgotten |last2=Hamon |first2=Hervé |last3=Rotman |first3=Patrick |last4=Leggatt |first4=Jeremy |publisher=[[Knopf]] |year=1992 |isbn=0679410120 |pages=}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Rosen, Marjorie |date=1991-11-25 |title=Adieu, Yves |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20111346,00.html |url-status=dead |journal=People |volume=36 |issue=20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205111442/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20111346,00.html |archive-date=2009-02-05 |access-date=2023-07-30}}</ref> Montand's mother Giuseppina Simoni was a devout [[Catholic]]. The family left Italy for [[French Third Republic|France]] in 1923 following fascist [[Benito Mussolini]]'s rise to power.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hodgson |first=Moira |date=5 September 1982 |title=Yves Montand – From the Music Hall to the Met |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/05/arts/yves-montand-from-the-music-hall-to-the-met.html?&pagewanted=all |access-date=2023-07-30}}</ref> He grew up in [[Marseille]], where, as a young man, he worked in his sister's beauty salon (Salon de Coiffure), as well as later on the docks. He began a career in show business as a [[music-hall]] singer. In 1944, he was discovered by [[Édith Piaf]] in Paris; she made him part of her act.<ref>{{cite web |title=Piaf - Montand Romance and Partnership |url=https://france-amerique.com/yves-montand-an-american-dream/}}</ref>

==Career==
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Montand achieved international recognition as a singer and actor, starring in many films. He is recognised for [[crooner]] style songs, with those about Paris becoming instant classics. He was one of the best known performers at [[Bruno Coquatrix]]'s [[Paris Olympia]] music hall, and toured with musicians including [[Didi Duprat]]. In October 1947, he sang "[[What Can I Do? (Édith Piaf song)|Mais qu'est-ce que j'ai ?]]" (music by [[Henri Betti]] and lyrics by [[Édith Piaf]]) at the Théâtre de l'Étoile. Betti also asked him to sing "[[C'est si bon]]" but Montand refused. Following the success of the recording of this song by the Sœurs Étienne in 1948, he decided to record it. Montand was also very popular in the [[Soviet Union]] and Eastern Europe, where he did a concert tour in 1956-57.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Oiva |first1=Mila |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-69048-9 |title=Yves Montand in the USSR: Cultural Diplomacy and Mixed Messages |last2=Salmi |first2=Hannu |last3=Johnson |first3=Bruce |date=2021-04-29 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-030-69047-2 |location=Cham |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-69048-9 |s2cid=242402774}}</ref>

During his career, Montand acted in American motion pictures as well as on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]]. He was nominated for a [[César Award]] for Best Actor in 1980 for ''I comme Icare'' and again in 1984 for ''Garçon!'' In 1986, after his international box-office draw power had fallen off considerably, the 65-year-old Montand gave one of his best remembered performances, as the scheming uncle in ''[[Jean de Florette]]'', co-starring [[Gérard Depardieu]], and ''[[Manon des Sources (1986 film)|Manon des Sources]]'' (both 1986), co-starring [[Emmanuelle Béart]]. The film was a worldwide critical hit and revived Montand's profile in the United States, where he made an appearance on ''[[Late Night with David Letterman]]''.<ref>{{cite web |date=1987-06-17 |title=Late Night with David Letterman (a Guest Stars & Air Dates Guide) |url=http://epguides.com/LateNightwithDavidLetterman/ |access-date=14 May 2013}}</ref>

==Personal life==
[[File:Yves Montand Cannes.jpg|thumb|200px|Montand at the [[1987 Cannes Film Festival]]]]
In 1951, he married [[Simone Signoret]], and they co-starred in several films throughout their careers. The marriage was, by all accounts, fairly harmonious, lasting until her death in 1985, although Montand had a number of well-publicised affairs, notably with American actress [[Marilyn Monroe]], with whom he starred in one of her final films, ''[[Let's Make Love]]''. He was the stepfather to Signoret's daughter from her previous marriage, [[Catherine Allégret]].

Montand's only child, a son named Valentin, by his second wife, Carole Amiel (b. 1960), was born in 1988. In a paternity suit that caused commotion across France, another woman accused Montand of being the father of her daughter and went to court to obtain a [[DNA]] sample from him. Montand refused, but the woman persisted even after his death. In a court ruling that made international headlines, the woman won the right to have Montand exhumed and a sample taken.<ref>{{cite web |date=12 March 1998 |title=Body of Entertainer Montand Exhumed |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-mar-12-mn-28204-story.html |access-date=20 August 2012 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> The results indicated that he was not the girl's biological father.<ref>{{cite book |author=Fuchs |first=Rachel G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z1VqqZE79PoC&pg=PT272 |title=Contested Paternity: Constructing Families in Modern France |date=2008-07-25 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |isbn=978-0801898167 |page=272 |language=en}}</ref>

He supported left-wing causes during the 1950s and 1960s, and attended [[Communist]] festivals and meetings.<ref>{{cite web |last=Meisler |first=Stanley |date=1985-10-01 |title=French Actress Simone Signoret Dies at 64 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-10-01-mn-19173-story.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2021-11-17 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref>

Signoret and Montand had a home in [[Autheuil-Authouillet]], Normandy, where the main village street is named after him.

In his later years, he maintained a home in [[Saint-Paul-de-Vence]], Provence, until his death from a heart attack in November 1991.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yves Montand - Biography |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0598971/bio/ |access-date=2023-07-30 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref> In an interview, [[Jean-Jacques Beineix]] said, "[H]e died on the set [of ''IP5: The Island of Pachyderms'']... On the very last day, after his very last shot. It was the very last night and we were doing retakes. He finished what he was doing and then he just died. And the film tells the story of an old man who dies from a heart attack, which is the same thing that happened!"<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-06-05 |title=The Return of Jean-Jacques Beineix, Pt. II |url=http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1740000174/post/370045237.html |access-date=2009-06-17 |website=www.videobusiness.com}}</ref> Montand is interred next to his first wife, [[Simone Signoret]], in [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]] in Paris.

In 2004, Catherine Allégret, Signoret's daughter from her first marriage to director [[Yves Allégret]], alleged in her autobiography ''Un monde a l'envers'' (''A World Upside Down'') that she had been sexually abused by her stepfather from the age of five; his behaviour apparently continuing for many years,<ref>{{cite news |last=Bremnerin |first=Charles |date=30 September 2004 |title=Actress says cinema idol stepfather abused her |work=[[Irish Independent]] |agency=The Times (London) |url=http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/actress-says-cinema-idol-stepfather-abused-her-25900219.html |access-date=20 November 2013}}</ref> and that he had a "more than equivocal attitude to her" as she got older.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2004-10-01 |title=Catherine Allégret détaille ses relations avec Montand |language=fr |work=[[L'Obs]] |url=https://o.nouvelobs.com/people/20040929.OBS8018/catherine-allegret-detaille-ses-relations-avec-montand.html |access-date=2023-07-30}}</ref> However, she also claimed to have been reconciled to him in the latter years of his life.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mathieu |first=Hélène |date=2009-02-06 |title=Catherine Allégret : " Cette vérité, c'est à moi de la dire " |url=https://www.psychologies.com/Moi/Epreuves/Deuil/Articles-et-Dossiers/Catherine-Allegret-Cette-verite-c-est-a-moi-de-la-dire |access-date=2023-07-30 |website=Psychologies.com |language=fr-FR}}</ref>

==Filmography==
[[File:Yves Montand 1966.jpg|thumb|Yves Montand as [[Formula One]] driver Jean-Pierre Sarti in ''[[Grand Prix (1966 film)|Grand Prix]]'', 1966]]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Director
! Notes
|-
|1941
|''La Prière aux étoiles''
|Un gars dans le café
|[[Marcel Pagnol]]
|Uncredited
|-
|rowspan=2|1946
|''[[Star Without Light (1946 film)|Star Without Light]]''
|Pierre
|[[Marcel Blistène]]
|
|-
|''[[Gates of the Night]]''
|Jean Diego
|[[Marcel Carné]]
|
|-
|1948
| ''[[The Idol (1948 film)|The Idol]]'' 
|Fontana
|[[Alexander Esway]]
|
|-
|1950
|''[[Lost Souvenirs]]''
|Raoul
|[[Christian-Jaque]]
|(segment "Le violon")
|-
|rowspan=3|1951
|''[[The Red Inn]]''
|Singing Commentator
|Claude Autant-Lara
|Voice
|-
|''[[Paris Is Always Paris]]''
|Himself
|[[Luciano Emmer]]
|[[cameo appearance]]
|-
|''[[Paris Still Sings]]''
|Himself
|[[Pierre Montazel]]
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1953
|''[[The Wages of Fear (film)|Le salaire de la peur]]'' (''The Wages of Fear'')
|Mario
|[[Henri-Georges Clouzot]]
|
|-
|''[[Saluti e baci]]''
|Himself
|[[Maurice Labro]] and [[Giorgio Simonelli]]
|Uncredited
|-
|1954
|''[[A Slice of Life (1954 film)|Tempi Nostri]]''
|Vasco
|[[Alessandro Blasetti]] and [[Paul Paviot]]
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1955
|''[[Napoléon (1955 film)|Napoléon]]''
|[[François Joseph Lefebvre]]
|[[Sacha Guitry]]
|
|-
|''[[The Heroes Are Tired (film)|The Heroes Are Tired]]''
| Michel Rivière
|[[Yves Ciampi]]
|
|-
|''[[Marguerite de la nuit]]''
|Monsieur Léon
|[[Claude Autant-Lara]]
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1957
|''[[The Wolves (1956 film)|The Wolves]]''
|Ricuccio
|[[Giuseppe De Santis]]
|
|-
|''[[Les Sorcières de Salem]]''
|[[John Proctor (convicted witch)|John Proctor]]
|[[Raymond Rouleau]]
|
|-
|''[[La grande strada azzurra]]''
|Giovanni Squarciò
|[[Gillo Pontecorvo]]
|
|-
|1958
|''[[Premier mai]]''
|Jean Meunier
|[[Luis Saslavsky]]
|
|-
|1959
|''[[The Law (1959 film)|Legge, La]]''
|Matteo Brigante
|[[Jules Dassin]]
|
|-
|1960
|''[[Let's Make Love]]''
| Clement / Dumas
|[[George Cukor]]
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1961
|''[[Sanctuary (1961 film)|Sanctuary]]''
|[[Popeye (Faulkner character)|Candy Man]]
|[[Tony Richardson]]
|
|-
|''[[Goodbye Again (1961 film)|Goodbye Again]]''
|Roger Demarest
|[[Anatole Litvak]]
|
|-
|1962
|''[[My Geisha]]''
|Paul Robaix
|[[Jack Cardiff]]
|
|-
|1963
|''[[Le Joli Mai]]''
|Narrator
|[[Chris Marker]]
|
|-
|1965
|''[[The Sleeping Car Murders|Compartiment tueurs]]''
|Inspector Grazziani
|[[Costa-Gavras]]
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1966
|''[[La guerre est finie]]''
| Diego Mora
|Alain Resnais
|
|-
|''[[Is Paris Burning? (film)|Is Paris Burning?]]''
|Sgt. Marcel Bizien
|[[René Clément]]
|
|-
|''[[Grand Prix (1966 film)|Grand Prix]]''
|Jean- Pierre Sarti
|[[John Frankenheimer]]
|
|-
|1967
|''[[Vivre pour vivre]]''
|Robert Colomb
|[[Claude Lelouch]]
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1968
|''[[Mr. Freedom]]''
|Captain Formidable
|[[William Klein (photographer)|William Klein]]
|cameo appearance, Uncredited
|-
|''[[Un soir, un train]]''
|Mathias
|[[André Delvaux]]
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1969
|''[[The Devil by the Tail]]'' 
|Baron César Maricorne
|[[Philippe de Broca]]
|
|-
|''[[Z (1969 film)|Z]]''
|[[Grigoris Lambrakis]]
|Costa-Gavras
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1970
|''[[L'Aveu]]''
|Gérard
|Costa-Gavras
|
|-
|''[[On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (film)|On a Clear Day You Can See Forever]]''
|Marc Chabot
|[[Vincente Minnelli]]
|
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|-
|''[[Kelly's Heroes]]''
|German Sturmbannführer
|Brian G. Hutton
|Uncredited -->
|-
|''[[Le Cercle Rouge]]''
|Jansen
|[[Jean-Pierre Melville]]
|
|-
|rowspan=1|1971
|''[[La folie des grandeurs]]''
|Blaze
|[[Gérard Oury]]
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1972
|''[[Tout va bien]]''
|"The Director"
|[[Jean-Luc Godard]] and [[Jean-Pierre Gorin]]
|
|-
|''[[César and Rosalie|César et Rosalie]]''
|César
|[[Claude Sautet]]
|
|-
|''[[State of Siege|État de Siège]]''
|Philip Michael Santore
|Costa-Gavras
|
|-
|1973
|''{{Interlanguage link|Le Fils (1973 film)|fr|3=Le Fils (film, 1973)|lt=Le Fils}}''
|Ange Orahona
|[[Pierre Granier-Deferre]]
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1974
|''Chance and Violence''
|Laurent Bermann
|[[Philippe Labro]]
|
|-
|''[[Vincent, François, Paul...et les autres]]''
|Vincent
|Claude Sautet
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1975
|''[[Section spéciale]]''
|Un milicien
|Costa-Gavras
|Uncredited
|-
|''[[Le Sauvage]]''
|Martin
|[[Jean-Paul Rappeneau]]
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1976
|''[[Police Python 357]]''
|Inspecteur Marc Ferrot
|[[Alain Corneau]]
|
|-
|''[[The Big Operator (1976 film)|Le Grand Escogriffe]]''
|Morland
|[[Claude Pinoteau]]
|
|-
|''[[A Butterfly in the Night]]''
|Himself
|[[Armando Bó]]
|Voice
|-
|rowspan=3|1977
|''[[La Menace]]''
|Henri Savin
|[[Alain Corneau]]
|
|-
|''[[Le fond de l'air est rouge]]''
|Narrator
|Chris Marker
|
|-
|''Jacques Prévert''
|Himself
|Jean Desvilles
|
|-
|1978
|''[[Roads to the South]]''
|Jean Larrea
|[[Joseph Losey]]
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1979
|''[[Clair de femme (film)|Clair de femme]]''
|Michel Follin
|Costa-Gavras
|
|-
|''[[I as in Icarus]]''
|Henri Volney
|[[Henri Verneuil]]
|
|-
|1981
|''[[Le Choix des armes]]''
|Noël Durieux
|Alain Corneau
|
|-
|1982
|''[[Tout feu, tout flamme]]''
|Victor Valance
|[[Jean-Paul Rappeneau]]
|
|-
|1983
|''[[Waiter!|Garçon!]]''
|Alex
|Claude Sautet
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1986
|''[[Jean de Florette]]''
|rowspan=2|César Soubeyran
|rowspan=2|[[Claude Berri]]
|
|-
|''[[Manon des Sources (1986 film)|Manon des Sources]]''
|
|-
|1988
|''[[Trois places pour le 26]]''
|Himself
|[[Jacques Demy]]
|
|-
|1991
|''{{Interlanguage link|Netchaïev est de retour|fr}}''
|Pierre Marroux
|[[Jacques Deray]]
|
|-
|1992
|''[[IP5: L'île aux pachydermes]]''
| Léon Marcel
|[[Jean-Jacques Beineix]]
|(final film role)
|-
|}

==Discography==
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
*1951: ''Yves Montand Sings ([[Decca Records|Decca]])
*1952: ''Chante'' ([[Odeon Records|Odéon]])
*1953: ''Chante ses dernières créations'' (Odéon)
*1953: ''Chante Paris'' (Odéon)
*1953: ''Récital au Théâtre de l'Étoile 1953'' (Odéon, live)
*1954: ''Chante ses derniers succès'' (Odéon)
*1954: ''# 54'' (Odéon)
*1955: ''Chansons populaires de France'' (Odéon)
*1957: ''13 ans déjà !'' (Odéon)
*1958: ''Dix chansons pour l'été'' (Odéon)
*1958: ''Succès du Récital 1958 au Théâtre de L'Étoile'' (Odéon)
*1958: ''Récital 1'' + ''Récital 2'' ([[Philips Records|Philips]])
*1958: ''Étoile 58'' (Philips)
*1959: ''One Man Show'' ([[Columbia Records|Columbia]], North America, Philips in UK)
*1960: ''Dansez avec Yves Montand'' (Philips)
*1961: ''Rengaine ta rengaine'' (Philips)
*1962: ''Chante Prévert'' (Philips)
*1962: ''Récital 63 – Intégral du Théâtre de l'Étoile'' (Philips, live)
*1967: ''7'' (Philips)
*1968: ''[[La Bicyclette]]'' (Philips)
*1968: ''Le Paris de...'' (Philips)
*1968: ''À l'Olympia'' (Philips, live)
*1970: ''[[On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (soundtrack)|On a Clear Day You Can See Forever]]'' (Columbia, soundtrack with [[Barbra Streisand]])
*1972: ''Dans son dernier "One man show" intégral'' (CBS, live)
*1974: ''Montand de mon temps'' (CBS)
*1981: ''D'hier et d'aujourd'hui'' (Philips)
*1981: ''Le disque de la paix'' (Philips)
*1982: ''Olympia 81'' (Philips)
*1983: ''In English'' (Philips)
*1984: ''Chante David Mc Neil'' (Philips)
*1988: ''Trois places pour le 26'' (Philips, w/ [[Mathilda May]], soundtrack)
*1993: ''Les années Odéon – 1945–1958'' (Columbia, 9-CD boxset)
*1997: ''Plaisirs inédits'' ([[Universal Records|Universal]])
*2000: ''Et la fête continue – Intégrale 1945–1949 – Vol. 1'' (Frémeaux)
*2001: ''Inédits, rares & indispensables'' (Mercury, 4-CD boxset)
*2004: ''Sensationnel – Intégrale 1949–1953 – Vol. 2'' (Frémeaux)
*2007: ''Une étoile à l'Étoile – Intégrale 1953–1954 – Vol. 3'' (Frémeaux, live)
{{div col end}}

== See also ==
* {{Portal inline|France}}
* {{Portal inline|Music}}
* {{Portal inline|Biography}}

==References==
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==External links==
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