[15] Edith believed her weakness for men came from mixing with prostitutes in her grandmother's brothel. While performing in New York City, Édith meets Marcel Cerdan, a fellow French national who is a boxer competing for the World Champion title. Edith Piaf (1915–1963) byla křehká a drobná bytost, ale její hlas, její písně a její životní příběh jsou nezapomenutelné. "Love." [2] The bordello had two floors and seven rooms, and the prostitutes were not very numerous, "about ten poor girls" as she later described, in fact five or six were permanent and a dozen for market and any busy days. Édith hysterically searches for the ghost of Marcel that was lounging on her bed just a few moments before, crying out the name of her lost lover. 3, Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La_Vie_en_rose_(film)&oldid=983033703, Films that won the Academy Award for Best Makeup, Films featuring a Best Actress Academy Award-winning performance, Films featuring a Best Actress César Award-winning performance, Films featuring a Best Actress Lumières Award-winning performance, Films featuring a Best Musical or Comedy Actress Golden Globe winning performance, Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention from November 2016, All Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2014, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 11 October 2020, at 21:05. When Édith is nine years old, her father leaves the circus after an argument with the manager and begins performing on the streets of Paris. In theaters, the film grossed US$86,274,793 worldwide – $10,301,706 in the United States and Canada and $75,973,087 elsewhere in the world. She rapidly returned to street singing, until the summer of 1933, when she started performing at Juan-les-Pins, Rue Pigalle. Her father returns to Paris and scoops up a sick Édith, then in turn leaves the child with his own mother, who is a madam of a brothel in Normandy. The name inscribed at the foot of the tombstone is Famille Gassion-Piaf. The memories appear to almost haunt Piaf. (music by Henri Betti) for Yves Montand. The hilarity is uninterrupted as Édith gets out and pretends to hitchhike—the whole episode appearing to be a metaphor for her lifelong frantic efforts to be happy and distracted by entertaining others, through all manner of disasters. Albeit her short physical stature, audiences the world over were amazed by her powerful vocals. She is considered the greatest icon of French popular music. Desperate, Édith turns to Raymond Asso, a songwriter and accompanist. [30] She lived above the L'Étoile de Kléber, a famous nightclub and bordello close to the Paris Gestapo headquarters. She had to testify before a purge panel, as there were plans to ban her from appearing on radio transmissions. The couple sang together in some of her last engagements. In 1929, at age 14, she was taken by her father to join him in his acrobatic street performances all over France, where she first began to sing in public. [2] The bandleader that evening was Django Reinhardt, with his pianist, Norbert Glanzberg. [27][37] Charles Aznavour recalled that Piaf's funeral procession was the only time since the end of World War II that he saw Parisian traffic come to a complete stop. Sadly, her life story was full of illness, injury, addiction, and these factors took its toll on her body. Together they toured the streets singing and earning money for themselves. Cerdan's Air France flight, on a Lockheed Constellation, crashed in the Azores, killing everyone on board, including noted violinist Ginette Neveu.