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person_profile-Ray Ventura

Ray Ventura Died at age: 70

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Ray Ventura

Date of Birth:

Apr 16, 1908

Country of birth:

France

Died:

Mar 29, 1979

Biography of

Ray Ventura

    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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Ray Ventura

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Filmography of

Ray Ventura

Found 10 Movies in total

L'assassin connaît la musique

Self (uncredited) ( Actor )

Producer

... 1963

... 1953

Monte Carlo Baby

Self ( Actor )

Producer

... 1951

... 1950

Mademoiselle Has Fun

Self ( Actor )

... 1948

Whirlwind of Paris

Self ( Actor )

... 1939

Feux de joie

Self ( Actor )

... 1939

Quadrille

Himself (as Ray Ventura et ses Collégiens) ( Actor )

Orchestrator

... 1938

... 1936

... 1936