Maurice Chevalier
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 Maurice Chevalier facts

• He is perhaps best known for his signature songs, including "Louise", "Mimi", "Valentine", and "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" and for his films, including The Love Parade and The Big Pond
• His trademark attire was a boater hat, which he always wore on stage with a tuxedo
• Chevalier was born in Paris
• He made his name as a star of musical comedy, appearing in public as a singer and dancer at an early age before working in menial jobs as a teenager
• In 1909, he became the partner of the biggest female star in France at the time, Fréhel
• Although their relationship was brief, she secured him his first major engagement, as a mimic and a singer in l'Alcazar in Marseille, for which he received critical acclaim by French theatre critics
• In 1917, he discovered jazz and ragtime and went to London, where he found new success at the Palace Theatre
• After this, he toured the United States, where he met the American composers George Gershwin and Irving Berlin and brought the operetta Dédé to Broadway in 1922
• He developed an interest in acting and had success in Dédé
• When talkies arrived, he went to Hollywood in 1928, where he played his first American role in Innocents of Paris