Ray Ventura
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Ray Ventura

Born

April 16, 1908

Died

March 29, 1979 (70 years old)

Known For

Production

Place of Birth

Paris, France

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.

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La Chance aux chansons

La Chance aux chansons

Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)

4.0

1984

Numéro un

Numéro un

Self · (1 episode)

6.0

1975

Samedi soir

Self · (1 episode)

6.0

1971

L'assassin connaît la musique

L'assassin connaît la musique

Self (uncredited)

7.7

1963

Cinépanorama

Cinépanorama

Self · (2 episodes)

8.0

1956

Femmes de Paris

Femmes de Paris

Self

6.5

1953

One Hundred Francs Per Second

One Hundred Francs Per Second

Self

5.3

1953

Monte Carlo Baby

Monte Carlo Baby

Self

6.8

1951

We Will All Go to Paris

We Will All Go to Paris

Self

5.2

1950

Mademoiselle Has Fun

Mademoiselle Has Fun

Self

5.3

1948

Whirlwind of Paris

Whirlwind of Paris

Self

6.5

1939

Feux de joie

Feux de joie

Self

4.0

1939

Quadrille

Quadrille

Himself (as Ray Ventura et ses Collégiens)

6.0

1938

Everything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise

Everything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise

10.0

1936

Adventure in Paris

Adventure in Paris

6.0

1936