Yves Montand poster. Poster for the film *La grande strada azzurra*. Soviet poster. 1960. Huge. Starring Yves Montand. Very rare. Original vintage poster for the Italian-French-German-Yugoslav film *La grande strada azzurra* (The Wide Blue Road). Director: Gillo Pontecorvo. Yves Montand. БОЛЬШАЯ ГОЛУБАЯ ДОРОГА. ИВ МОНТАН.
good condition. Please see the photos. Feel free to ask questions. Poster dimensions: 101 x 73 cm. Published in the USSR in 1960. Artist: A. Lemeshchenko. Starring: Yves Montand.
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Ivo Livi was born on October 13, 1921, in the Italian town of Monsummano Terme ( Tuscany ). He was the youngest of three children of Giuseppina and Giovanni Livi. Ivo's father was a staunch communist , and his mother was a deeply religious Catholic . Shortly after the Nazis came to power, the family moved to France . Initially planning to emigrate to the United States , but visa problems arose , and the Livi family eventually settled in Marseille . In 1929, they received French citizenship.
In his youth, Montand worked first in his sister's hairdressing salon, then as a dockworker. He began his artistic career as a singer in cinemas, clubs, and music halls. He chose the combination "Yves Montand" as his stage name (Yves is the French form of the name Ivo). As he himself explained, the origin of this stage name stems from the fact that when he was a child, his mother would call him home, mixing Italian and French words: "Ivo, monta! (Ivo, get up!)" [ 6 ] .
He first appeared on stage under this pseudonym at the age of 17. In 1944, during a performance at the Moulin Rouge cabaret theater in Paris, Montand was noticed by Edith Piaf . For a time, Montand, six years younger than Piaf, became her lover, and she became his mentor. Piaf developed his repertoire and asked her collaborators to write him several songs. They performed together on stage until 1946, when Piaf broke up with Montand.
Stage
In the late 1940s, Montand met musicians who would become his friends and collaborators: pianist Bob Castella, guitarist Henri Crolla, and poet-singer Francis Lemarque . Crolla introduced Montand to the poet Jacques Prévert . Prévert's poems would become the foundation of Montand's repertoire for many years and bring him fame ( Les Feuilles Mortes , Barbara ).
In 1956, Montand toured the USSR for a month and a half [ 7 ] .
In his youth, Montand cultivated the image of a "singing proletarian": frequent heroes of his songs are a truck driver, a soldier, a seasonal worker, and a boxer.
Yves Montand is renowned as a performer who fully revealed his multifaceted talent on stage, whether in music halls or on television. His one-man shows on Broadway enjoyed enormous success. His final series of concerts took place in 1981 at the prestigious Olympia in Paris .
Yves Montand became the first singer in the world to have a television performance broadcast via satellite. This occurred on July 10, 1962, during the first test broadcast from the Telstar satellite . During this American-organized broadcast, the French transmitted their signal to the satellite without warning (nearly sparking a diplomatic row), and American viewers suddenly saw Yves Montand on their screens.
Film career
In 1946, Montand played the male lead in Marcel Carné's " The Gates of Night, " based on a screenplay by Jacques Prévert. However, his performance failed to inspire public confidence. His portrayal in the thriller " The Wages of Fear " was more convincing. In the 1960s and 1970s, the mature Montand truly blossomed as an actor (in films by Costa-Gavras and Claude Sautet ). However, he devoted noticeably less attention to song.
Montand also acted in films in Europe and America, notably in the film Let's Make Love , where his partner was Marilyn Monroe .
Personal life
In August 1949, in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Montand met Simone Signoret and fell in love with her. Soon after, Simone left her first husband, Yves Allégret , and in December 1951, she married Montand. The wedding took place at the Golden Dove Hotel , located in Saint-Paul-de-Vence on the Côte d'Azur . The couple frequently collaborated on stage and film sets. The Montand-Signoret couple was very popular and was constantly featured on magazine covers.
In 1985, Signoret died. In 1986, while filming Jean de Florette , Montand began an affair with his secretary, Carole Amiel , hired several years earlier for a planned tour. Amiel became the mother of his only child; in 1988, they had a son, Valentin. Montand initially denied paternity, but, seeing the negative reaction in the French press, he changed his stance.
Montand's many affairs with women are well-known. For example, he had an affair with Marilyn Monroe in 1960 on the set of their film " Let's Make Love " in Hollywood. The whirlwind romance unfolded right in front of his wife, Simone Signoret, who was present on the set and was older than Monroe. Montand even considered staying with Monroe, but after assessing his professional prospects in the United States, he decided against it. After Monroe's unexpected death in 1962, Montand refused to comment.
In November 1997, six years after the singer's death, his former co-star from the 1974 film, Anne-Gilberte Drossart, began proving that Montand was the father of her daughter, Aurore. The case went to court, where Drossart was represented by lawyer Gilbert Collard, who later became a leading member of the far-right National Front party . Despite public opinion, the late singer's friends, and the protests of Health Minister Bernard Kouchner , the court ordered the grave opened and DNA testing performed on the remains. The paternity test was negative.
Yves Montand died on November 9, 1991, while filming "IP5." The director and crew forced him to do multiple takes of the scene of entering and swimming in an icy lake in bad weather, neglecting to provide warm clothing or keep him warm between takes. The result was pneumonia .
In an interview, director Jean-Jacques Beineix described what happened: “[He] died on the set of IP5: The Island of Pachyderms… On the very last day of shooting, after his very last shot. It was the very last night, and we were reshooting takes. He finished what he was doing, and then he just died. And the film is about an old man who dies of a heart attack—the same thing that happened!” [ 8 ] In reality, Yves Montand died a day later in a hospital in Senlis from a heart attack caused by pneumonia.
Coming from a working-class family , Montand held leftist views in his youth, which appealed to the Soviet authorities and contributed to his popularity in the USSR . In 1950, Montand signed the Stockholm Appeal, initiated by the French Communist Party , calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons and participated in other actions from positions close to communist ones.
During the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, Montand, despite the protests of many colleagues, decided to go on a previously planned tour to the USSR. The French public harshly criticized him, but the actor was given a warm welcome in the USSR [ 9 ] .
In 1970, Montand starred alongside Signoret in the film " Confession ," directed by Costa-Gavras , with whom he had collaborated since the 1960s, about the events of 1948 and 1968 in Czechoslovakia . Montand's rejection of Soviet foreign policy , particularly the introduction of Warsaw Pact troops into Czechoslovakia in 1968, led to the USSR officially cooling its stance towards him, including banning the broadcast of his recordings on radio and television and removing his records from the Melodiya label's catalog . The release of the film " Live to Live, " dubbed in 1969, starring him, was delayed until 1975. In the 1980s, the Soviet press even wrote that Yves Montand had allegedly radically changed his former convictions and was now advocating liberalism .
In his entire life he never belonged to any party.
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