Ray Ventura

Produttore, Attore, Compositore, Sceneggiatore

16 aprile 1908 — 29 marzo 1979 (70 anni)
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.

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Famoso per

  • La ragazza del peccato
    La ragazza del peccato1958
  • Miss spogliarello
    Miss spogliarello1956
  • Vacanze a Montecarlo
    Vacanze a Montecarlo1951
  • Parrucchiere per signora
    Parrucchiere per signora1952
  • Capitan Fracassa
    Capitan Fracassa1961
  • I caldi amori
    I caldi amori1962
  • L'assassino conosce la musica...
    L'assassino conosce la musica...1963
  • ...e mi lasciò senza indirizzo
    ...e mi lasciò senza indirizzo1951
  • We Will All Go to Paris
    We Will All Go to Paris1950
  • Io... 2 ville e 4 scocciatori
    Io... 2 ville e 4 scocciatori1962
  • Sono un sentimentale
    Sono un sentimentale1955
  • Gli amanti del Tago
    Gli amanti del Tago1955
  • I celebri amori di Enrico IV
    I celebri amori di Enrico IV1961
  • La Venere tascabile
    La Venere tascabile1959
  • Le roi Pandore
    Le roi Pandore1950
  • Un treno è fermo a Berlino
    Un treno è fermo a Berlino1963
  • Il gioco delle spie
    Il gioco delle spie1966
  • Da dove vieni cow boy?
    Da dove vieni cow boy?1963
  • La giungla del peccato
    La giungla del peccato1955
  • Le compagne della notte
    Le compagne della notte1953

Filmografia

1984
La chance aux chansons · as Self (archive Footage)
1975
Number One · as Self
1963
The Murderer Knows the Score · as Self (uncredited)
1956
Cinépanorama · as Self
1955
1953
1953
Femmes de Paris · as Self
1951
1950
1948
1939
Feux de joie · as Self

1997
Tudo É Brasil · as Cast
1972
1971
Le cinéma de papa · as Le Producteur Installé Sur Les Champs-Elysées
1938
Quadrille · as Lui-Même (as « Ray Ventura Et Ses Collégiens »)
1936

1962
We Will Go to Deauville · as Delegate Producer
1953
Femmes de Paris · as Presentation Producer
1938
Belle Étoile · as Orchestrator
1938
Quadrille · as Orchestrator