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Jean-Alexis Moncorgé, known as Jean Gabin ( French: [ʒɑ̃ gabɛ̃]; 17 May 1904 – 15 November 1976), was a French actor and singer. Considered a key figure in French cinema, he starred in several classic films, including Pépé le Moko (1937), La grande illusion (1937), Le Quai des brumes (1938), La bête humaine (1938), Le jour se lève ...
Aug 20, 1997 · French Lover by Jean Gabin released in 1997. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Hollywood, meanwhile, made a cack-handed attempt to turn the sui generis Gabin into a “Great French Lover” along the lines of Maurice Chevalier, whose famous lover Mistinguette helped Gabin to music hall fame in the late 1920s, and Gabin’s nemesis, Charles Boyer.
Oct 23, 2012 · In France Jean Gabin embodied the French lover in films such as Le Quai des Brumes/Port of Shadows (Marcel Carné, 1938); and Gueule d’Amour/Lady Killer (1937) and Remorques/Stormy Waters (1941), both directed by Jean Grémillon.On both sides of the Atlantic the image of the French lover is that of a handsome, tongue-in-cheek, masculine man ...
Album · 1930 · 14 Songs. Available with an Apple Music subscription. Try it free.
In 1974, Gabin, seventy years old and as beloved as ever, a symbol of the France that overcame the wars and never lost its essential qualities as a nation, recorded “Maintenant Je Sais.” In his off-hand way he talk-croons his way through the sentimental song, as lugubrious strings saw away in the background.
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In 1958, Gabin starred in his most controversial film, En cas de malheur, in which he played the May to December lover of a new debutante, Brigitte Bardot. Gabin's professional success was accompanied by a comparable fulfilment in his private life.
