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Ray Ventura
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Ray Ventura
Known For
Production
Birthday
1908-04-16,Paris, France
Gender
Male
Biography
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.

Filmography

Adventure in Paris

7

Adventure in Paris
1936-11-24

Everything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise

9

Everything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise
1936-12-03

We Will All Go to Paris

5.5

We Will All Go to Paris
1950-02-08

One Hundred Francs Per Second

6

One Hundred Francs Per Second
1953-01-09

Whirlwind of Paris

8.25

Whirlwind of Paris
1939-12-15

L'assassin connaît la musique

7.75

L'assassin connaît la musique
1963-10-16

Femmes de Paris

7

Femmes de Paris
1953-05-17

Mademoiselle Has Fun

5.333

Mademoiselle Has Fun
1948-01-30

Monte Carlo Baby

6.767

Monte Carlo Baby
1951-11-22

5.667

Feux de joie
1939-02-01

5.9

Quadrille
1938-01-29

Le Billet de mille

9

Le Billet de mille
1935-01-11

7.5

Numéro un
1975-04-05

8.667

Cinépanorama
1956-02-04

La Chance aux chansons

6.5

La Chance aux chansons
1984-03-26

6

Samedi soir
1971-01-09