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Ray Ventura
Paris, France
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…
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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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1997
It's All Brazil
Movie Self
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1991
Night Fun
Movie Producer
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1984
La Chance aux chansons
TV show Self (archive footage)
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1975
Numéro un
TV show Self
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1971
Samedi soir
TV show Self
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1966
Our Men in Bagdad
Movie Producer
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1963
L'assassin connaît la musique
Movie Self (uncredited)
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1962
We Will Go to Deauville
Movie Music
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1962
And Satan Calls the Turns
Movie Producer
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1958
Love Is My Profession
Movie Producer
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1956
Forgive Our Trespasses
Movie Producer
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1956
Plucking the Daisy
Movie Producer
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1956
Cinépanorama
TV show Self
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1955
Le Crâneur
Movie Producer
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1955
Lovers' Net
Movie Producer
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1953
Companions of the Night
Movie Producer
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1953
Femmes de Paris
Movie Self
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1953
One Hundred Francs Per Second
Movie Self
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1952
Desperate Decision
Movie Producer
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1952
French Touch
Movie Producer
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1951
Monte Carlo Baby
Movie Ray Ventura
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1951
Without Leaving an Address
Movie Producer
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1950
Le Roi Pandore
Movie Producer
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1950
We Will All Go to Paris
Movie Self
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1949
Une femme par jour
Movie Producer
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1948
Mademoiselle Has Fun
Movie Self
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1939
Whirlwind of Paris
Movie Self
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1939
Feux de joie
Movie Self
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1938
Beautiful Star
Movie Orchestrator
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1938
Quadrille
Movie Lui-même (as « Ray Ventura et ses collégiens »)
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1936
Adventure in Paris
Movie
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1935
Le Billet de mille
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