Mistinguett

Mistinguett [ mistɛ gɛt ː ] is the stage name of Jeanne Bourgeois Florentine ( born April 4, 1875 in Enghien- les- Bains, France; † 5 January 1956 in Bougival, France), a French actress and singer.

Life

Her career began as a flower seller in a restaurant in their hometown; to popular ballads she sang for the guests. There they gave her the name Miss Tinguette, from which they composed their later stage name.

Her debut was in 1895 Mistinguett at the Casino de Paris, after which she also appeared in shows at the Folies Bergere, the Moulin Rouge and the Eldorado on. Your daring numbers charmed the Parisians and it was the most popular entertainer of her time and the highest-paid entertainer worldwide. As a female counterpart to Maurice Chevalier, she embodied the ideal type of the Parisian. In 1919, she let her legs with the amazing for its time sum of 500,000 francs insure. Artistically she competed with Josephine Baker.

In 1920 she participated for the first time on her song Mon Homme, which became known under the English title My Man by Fanny Brice and was the repertoire of many pop and jazz singer. The pinnacle of more than fifty -year career had Mistinguett in the 1920s and 1930s. She turned a lot of movies, among other things, she played Eponine in an early version of Les Misérables.

She had a long-running relationship with the much younger Maurice Chevalier, but it was her passionate love affairs with an Indian prince, with King Alfonso XIII. of Spain and the future King Edward VIII of England, who were legendary.

Jeanne Bourgeois died at the age of 80 and is buried in her hometown in the Cimetière Enghien- les- Bains.