Liliane Montevecchi

Liliane Montevecchi

Liliane Montevecchi (October 13, 1932 – June 29, 2018) was a French-Italian actress, dancer, and singer. Montevecchi took her first dance classes at 8 with Pierre Duprez, primo ballerino of the Opera in Paris, France. She entered the Conservatoire and completed her training of two years, with Jeanne Schwarz and Mathilde Kschessinska, on the stage of the Opéra Comique. She appeared for the first time on a stage at the Champs Elysées theater in a ballet by David Lichine. She then worked with Léonide Massine and danced in Monte Carlo for the coronation of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco in 1949. She also danced her first steps at the Casino de Paris with Jean Guélis. Montevecchi began her international career as a prima ballerina in Roland Petit's dance company. She appeared in The Glass Slipper with Michael Wilding and Daddy Long Legs (with Fred Astaire), in both of which she was acting with leading lady Leslie Caron. In the mid-1950s, she was signed to a contract by MGM, which cast her in various roles in such films as Moonfleet with Stewart Granger and Meet Me in Las Vegas with Cyd Charisse and John Brascia. She then played in the Jerry Lewis vehicle The Sad Sack, King Creole with Elvis Presley, and The Young Lions with Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin and Marlon Brando. She knew Gene Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor and Clark Gable, and she took classes at the Actors Studio in New York. Montevecchi replaced Colette Brosset in the 1958 Broadway revue La Plume de Ma Tante. After some television work in series such as Playhouse 90 and Adventures in Paradise at the end of the decade, Montevecchi opted to leave Hollywood for a star spot in the Folies Bergère in Las Vegas, toured with the company for nine years before appearing at the Folies Bergère in Paris from 1972 to 1978. In 1982, she drew the attention of critics and audiences for her performance in Nine, with Raúl Juliá, for which she won both the Tony and Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Seven years later, she starred in Grand Hotel, earning a Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Musical. On TV, she guest–starred in more than 20 shows. Montevecchi also appeared in the films Wall Street and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days with Matthew McConaughey. She appeared in concert at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center and toured internationally with her semi-autobiographical shows On the Boulevard and Back on the Boulevard. Her solo album On the Boulevard is available from Jay Records. She is featured in the recording of the 1985 concert version of Follies staged at Avery Fisher Hall, and she has starred in musicals such as Irma La Douce, Gigi and Hello Dolly!. In 1998, she replaced Eartha Kitt as The Wicked Witch of the West in Radio City Entertainment's touring production of The Wizard of Oz, co-starring Mickey Rooney as The Wizard and Jessica Grové as Dorothy. She continued with the show until the spring of 1999 and was succeeded by Jo Anne Worley. In 2001, Montevecchi appeared as Mistinguett at the Théâtre National de l’Opéra Comique in Paris. ... Source: Article "Liliane Montevecchi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Liliane Montevecchi
  • Popularity: 2.921
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1932-10-13
  • Place of Birth: Paris, France
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Liliane Montevecchi Movies

  • 1958
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    The Young Lions

    The Young Lions

    6.8 1958 HD

    The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

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  • 1955
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    Moonfleet

    Moonfleet

    6.4 1955 HD

    Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old...

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  • 1957
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    The Sad Sack

    The Sad Sack

    5.6 1957 HD

    Private Meredith Bixby is so out of step in the Army that his six weeks of planned basic training has now stretched to 17 months. After he loses a...

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  • 1960
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    The Snows of Kilimanjaro

    The Snows of Kilimanjaro

    1 1960 HD

    A writer reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection after a safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, after Earnest Hemingway's short...

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  • 1958
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    King Creole

    King Creole

    6.4 1958 HD

    Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform....

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  • 2003
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    Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

    Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

    7 2003 HD

    Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. ...

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  • 1975
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    That's Show Business

    That's Show Business

    7 1975 HD

    Clement Mastard is the head of a leading journal dedicated to extravagant vaudeville. An unexpected contract requires him to reconnect with his...

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  • 1958
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    Me and the Colonel

    Me and the Colonel

    6.2 1958 HD

    Nazis are about to overrun France, and a Jewish man named Jacobowsky is stranded in Paris. He hitches a ride with reluctant Polish serviceman Colonel...

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  • 1956
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    Meet Me in Las Vegas

    Meet Me in Las Vegas

    4.7 1956 HD

    Chuck Rodwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn't...

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  • 1955
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    The Glass Slipper

    The Glass Slipper

    6.3 1955 HD

    Musical adaptation of the story of Cinderella and her magical trip to the prince's ball.

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  • 1957
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    The Living Idol

    The Living Idol

    4.7 1957 HD

    An archaeologist believes a Mexican woman is the reincarnation of an Aztec princess.

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  • 1967
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    The Pickle Brothers

    The Pickle Brothers

    1 1967 HD

    The Pickle Brothers were a three-man comedy act which enjoyed considerable success during the late 1960s.

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  • 1990
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    Night of 100 Stars III

    Night of 100 Stars III

    4 1990 HD

    A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.

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  • 1953
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    Femmes de Paris

    Femmes de Paris

    6.5 1953 HD

    Professor Charles Buisson, astronomer and Nobel Prize winner, has just discovered a nova. He informs the other observatories by telephone. Just as he...

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  • 1987
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    Wall Street

    Wall Street

    7.166 1987 HD

    A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a...

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  • 1973
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    Musidora

    Musidora

    1 1973 HD

    Jean-Christophe Averty, a French television director and video artist pioneeer, retraces here the life story of Musidora, known for her signature...

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  • 2016
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    4 Days in France

    4 Days in France

    5.7 2016 HD

    A man leaves everything behind to travel aimlessly through France, letting himself be guided only by the people and landscapes he encounters: four...

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  • 1955
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    Daddy Long Legs

    Daddy Long Legs

    6.3 1955 HD

    Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, and anonymously pays for her...

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  • 1974
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    Pétrus

    Pétrus

    1 1974 HD

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  • 2003
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    How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

    How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

    6.8 2003 HD

    It's the battle of wills, as Andie needs to prove she can dump a guy in 10 days, whereas Ben needs to prove he can win a girl in 10 days. Now, the...

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  • 2002
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    The Idol

    The Idol

    4.7 2002 HD

    An Australian actress forms a spiritual bond with an elderly Chinese chef who lives across from her in a Parisian tenement house.

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  • 1986
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    Follies: In Concert

    Follies: In Concert

    7 1986 HD

    A backstage documentary film including footage from the legendary 1985 concert performance of Stephen Sondheim's classic musical at Lincoln Center's...

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  • 2009
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    42nd Street: River to River

    42nd Street: River to River

    2.5 2009 HD

    An impressionistic, graphic history of one of the world's most infamous streets: Manhattan's 42nd Street. Likened to a DNA strip of New York City,...

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  • 2021
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    Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

    Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

    1 2021 HD

    Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who...

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  • 1958
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    77 Sunset Strip

    77 Sunset Strip

    6.7 1958 HD

    Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office...

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  • 1959
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    Adventures in Paradise

    Adventures in Paradise

    5.7 1959 HD

    Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as...

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  • 1958
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    Behind Closed Doors

    Behind Closed Doors

    1 1958 HD

    Behind Closed Doors is an American drama series set during the Cold War hosted by and occasionally starring Bruce Gordon in the role of Commander...

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  • 1975
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    Numéro un

    Numéro un

    6 1975 HD

    A French variety show.

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  • 1972
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    Midi trente

    Midi trente

    6 1972 HD

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  • 1982
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    Champs-Elysées

    Champs-Elysées

    6.2 1982 HD

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