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Patachou
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1918-06-10,Paris, France
Gender
Female
Biography
Henriette Ragon (10 June 1918 – 30 April 2015), better known as Patachou, was a French singer and actress. She was an Officier of the Légion d'honneur. Born in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, Henriette Ragon began her working life as a typist, then a factory worker, a shoeseller and an antique dealer. In 1948, with her husband Jean Billon she took over a cabaret-restaurant in Montmartre, called Patachou. (Their son Pierre Billon had some success as a singer in the 1970s and wrote J'ai oublié de vivre for Johnny Hallyday.) She began to sing in the bistro, and journalists began to call her Patachou after the name of her cabaret (pâte-à-choux means cream puff dough). Georges Brassens sang there, and together they sang the duet "Maman, papa". She was the first to interpret other songs he composed such as "Le bricoleur", "La chasse aux papillons", etc. The evening she sang them for the first time, she suggested her audience stay to the end of the show and meet the writer of these songs, and Brassens went up on to the Patachou stage for the first time and sang Le Gorille and P..de toi. Sometimes she would collect half-ties (she would snip the neckties of customers reluctant to join in the singing and immediately staple them to the ceiling, a habit which has created a very original decor of the place - hundreds of neckties hanging above) – Thomas Dewey and Errol Flynn were among her victims. Her first records were released in 1952. She appeared at the Bobino, a Montparnasse music-hall, toured in France and then further afield. From 1953 onwards, she could be seen on-stage at the Palladium, the Waldorf Astoria, and Carnegie Hall, and throughout the United States. From the beginning of the 1970s she toured Japan and Sweden where 'L'eternal Parigot', with her cheeky Parisian register, was popular. Patachou was made Officier of the Légion d'honneur on 1 January 2009. Patachou died on 30 April 2015 at the age of 96. Source: Article "Patachou" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

Les Petites Mains

8

Les Petites Mains
2001-09-01

Adventures of Félix

5.8

Adventures of Félix
2000-04-19

6.3

Napoleon
1955-03-25

Faubourg St Martin

5.3

Faubourg St Martin
1986-12-03

Hold-up en l'air

4

Hold-up en l'air
1996-11-29

4.8

La Rumba
1987-02-18

Les matins chagrins

0

Les matins chagrins
1990-10-31

Le Cœur étincelant

0

Le Cœur étincelant
1995-01-01

Femmes de Paris

6.5

Femmes de Paris
1953-05-17

0

Tendre piège
1996-05-10

7.1

French Cancan
1955-04-27

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

4

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
1988-11-28

The Carpathian Mushroom

5.2

The Carpathian Mushroom
1990-03-07

6.513

Wild Target
1993-08-18

0

Avec sentiment
1987-09-01

Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre

4.6

Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre
2001-04-03

5.5

Pola X
1999-05-12

6.3

Open Season
1993-11-17

The Merv Griffin Show

5.3

The Merv Griffin Show
1962-10-01

Es spielt für Sie...

0

Es spielt für Sie...
1963-04-22

Le Grand Échiquier

8

Le Grand Échiquier
1972-01-12

La Chance aux chansons

4

La Chance aux chansons
1984-03-26

Orages d'été, avis de tempête

0

Orages d'été, avis de tempête
1990-07-05

Pierre or The Ambiguities

7

Pierre or The Ambiguities
2001-09-24

8

À bout portant
1968-12-16

L'Académie des 9

0

L'Académie des 9
1982-09-13

The Ed Sullivan Show

6.5

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show

6.5

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show

6.5

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948-06-20

6

Midi trente
1972-03-06

6

Numéro un
1975-04-05

0

Système 2
1975-01-19

Les Cordier, juge et flic

5.4

Les Cordier, juge et flic
1994-02-24

0

Discorama
1959-02-04