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Ray Ventura et ses Collégiens, Ray Ventura et son Orchestre, Raymond Ventura, l'Orchestre Ray Ventura
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Raymond Ventura (16 April 1908, Paris, France – 29 March 1979, Palma de Mallorca, Spain) was a French jazz pianist and bandleader. He helped popularize jazz in France in the 1930s. His nephew was singer Sacha Distel. Ventura was born to a Jewish family. In 1925 he was the pianist for the Collegiate Five, which recorded as the Collegians for Columbia beginning in 1928 and for Decca in the 1930s. A year later he led the band, and it became a dance orchestra resembling a big band. His sidemen included Alix Combelle, Philippe Brun, and Guy Paquinet. In the early 1940s he led a big band in South America and in France during the rest of the decade. One of his band's popular songs from 1936 was "Tout va très bien, Madame la Marquise" in which the Marquise is told by her servants that everything is fine at home except for a series of escalating calamities. It was seen as a metaphor for France's obliviousness to the approaching war. Source: Article "Ray Ventura" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1908-04-16
- event Death Date 1979-03-29
- school Known for: Production
- star Popularity: 1.2
- info Birth Place Paris, France
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Ray Ventura
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Everything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise
1936-12-03
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Adventure in Paris
1936-11-24
5.2
We Will All Go to Paris
1950-02-08
5.3
One Hundred Francs Per Second
1953-01-09
6.5
Whirlwind of Paris
1939-12-15
7.7
L'assassin connaît la musique
1963-10-16
6.5
Femmes de Paris
1953-05-17
6.8
Monte Carlo Baby
1951-11-22
5.3
Mademoiselle Has Fun
1948-01-30
4
Feux de joie
1939-02-01
6
Quadrille
1938-01-29
6
Numéro un
1975-04-05
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Cinépanorama
1956-02-04
4
La Chance aux chansons
1984-03-26
6
Samedi soir
1971-01-09
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Night Fun
1991-01-01
6
Plucking the Daisy
1956-07-25
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L'assassin connaît la musique
1963-10-16
6
Les Compagnes de la nuit
1953-07-28
6
Without Leaving an Address
1951-01-17
6
Le Crâneur
1955-05-10
6
Our Men in Bagdad
1966-08-12
6
Forgive Our Trespasses
1956-08-01
6
Lovers' Net
1955-01-18
6
Desperate Decision
1952-10-01
6
Monte Carlo Baby
1951-11-22
6
French Touch
1952-05-09
6
Une femme par jour
1949-02-23
6
And Satan Calls the Turns
1962-10-24
6
We Will Go to Deauville
1962-12-24
6
Le roi Pandore
1950-03-31
6
Beautiful Star
1938-11-24
6
Quadrille
1938-01-29
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Love Is My Profession
1958-09-17
6
We Will All Go to Paris
1950-02-08