I Can Still Smell The Croissants

 Hermoine Gingold and Maurice Chevalier

"remembering it well"

in Lerner and Loewe's Gigi, 1958,

directed by Vincent Minnelli.

Hermoine won a Golden Globe award for her performance,

playing Madame Alvarez.

She's quoted as saying: 

  "It was my first American film and I was very nervous.

I had to sing and I hadn't got a great voice, 

but with Maurice, I felt the greatest prima donna in the world."

 What a quintet!

Kirk, Maurice, Simone Signoret, Yves Montand and Gary Cooper.

 Ben Franklin In Paris

had Robert Preston, Ulla Sallert, big balloons,

and the music of Mark Sandrich, Jr.

(with a little help by Jerry Herman).

Below, Susan Watson, who also starred,

tho the only pics I could find of her were from 

her portrayal as Luisa in The Fantasticks...

 as Julie in Carousel (below)...

  ...and Kim in Bye Bye Birdie!

 We'll hear "Ahh Paris!" 

sung by the fabulous Liliane Montevecchi

in the 1985 version of Follies

(tho admittedly the above shot is from her

one woman show!).

 Above and below,

Frehel (born Marguerite Boulc'h)

French music hall singer of the early 1900s,

who we'll hear sing 

"Si Tu N'etais Pas La".

 The marvelous "Sinatra of France",

Charles Aznavour.

He has written over 800 songs,

acted, performed, and in 2009 became

the Armenian Ambassador to Switzerland,

where he currently resides. 

(Yup, still around at the age of 93.)

 Hit songs brought to you by Charles:

"Yesterday When We Were Young," "She",

"Dance In The Old Fashioned Way" and

"Que C'est Triste Venise".

He wrote 'em and he can sing 'em, in 8 languages. :)

 Charles, Edith Piaf,

and a game of boules.

Edith was instrumental in helping Charles

start a singing career,

when she took him on tour with her 

to the UK and America in 1946.

 Yves Montand and Edith Piaf,

the "Sonny and Cher" 

(but more talented and MUCH classier)

of France...

She supposedly broke off their relationship

when he became as popular as she!

Hmmm...

We'll hear one of Edith's 

signature songs,
"La Vie En Rose",

which she wrote, tho there is a bit of a controversy about that,

having "officially" been registered to composer

Louis Guglielmi.

Ahh, well. Now it's all her's.