Ray Ventura

Producent, Skådespelare, Kompositör, Författare

16 april 1908 — 29 mars 1979 (70 år)
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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Känd för

  • Den syndfulla leken
    Den syndfulla leken1958
  • Älskar... älskar inte...
    Älskar... älskar inte...1956
  • Monte Carlo Baby
    Monte Carlo Baby1951
  • Den glade damfrisören
    Den glade damfrisören1952
  • Med värjan i hand
    Med värjan i hand1961
  • Möte vid havet
    Möte vid havet1955
  • The Murderer Knows the Score
    The Murderer Knows the Score1963
  • Ensam flicka i Paris
    Ensam flicka i Paris1951
  • Till varje pris Paris
    Till varje pris Paris1950
  • We Will Go to Deauville
    We Will Go to Deauville1962
  • Inget blod på förstasidan
    Inget blod på förstasidan1955
  • Satan leder dansen
    Satan leder dansen1962
  • Leve kärleken
    Leve kärleken1961
  • Älskare utan hänsyn
    Älskare utan hänsyn1959
  • Le roi Pandore
    Le roi Pandore1950
  • Stop Train 349
    Stop Train 3491963
  • Sällskap för natten
    Sällskap för natten1953
  • Our Men in Bagdad
    Our Men in Bagdad1966
  • Where Are You From, Johnny?
    Where Are You From, Johnny?1963
  • Narkotikasirenen
    Narkotikasirenen1955

Filmografi

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