Line Renaud

Line Renaud

  • Birthday: 1928-07-02
  • Place of birth: Nieppe, Hauts-de-France, France
  • Also know as: Jacqueline Enté

Biography

Line Renaud (born 2 July 1928) is a popular French singer, actress and AIDS activist. Line Renaud was born Jacqueline Ente in Pont-de-Nieppe on 2 July 1928. Her mother Simone was a shorthand typist; her father was a truck driver during the week, but he played the trumpet on weekends, in a local brass band. Line showed the first signs of her talent in primary school, when at the age of seven she won an amateur competition. During the Second World War, Jacqueline's father was mobilised, spending five years away from the family. During this time, Jacqueline was brought up by her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Her grandmother had a café in Armentières, where she used to sing for passing soldiers. She auditioned at Conservatoire de Lille, singing songs written by Loulou Gasté "Sainte-Madeleine" and "Mon âme au diable". Louis Gasté was at that time a well-known French composer. At the end of the audition, she was approached by the director of Radio Lille who was looking for a singer. She took the pseudonym of Jacqueline Ray and joined the station singing a repertoire based on the songs by Loulou Gasté. In 1945, she moved to Paris and got her first gig in Folies Belleville, where she was introduced to Gasté. She was 16, and Gasté was 37. He became her mentor, changing her image and her name. Line Renaud made her national debut on Radio Luxembourg, singing on a Sunday morning program. After signing a contract with Pathe Marconi, she recorded "Ma Cabane au Canada", written by Loulou Gasté, which won le Grand Prix du Disque. She also sang with Yves Montand in the Théâtre de l'Etoile. She toured Europe and Africa extensively, came back to Paris to star at the ABC, and recorded numerous adaptations of American songs such as "Ma petite folie", "Étoile des neiges" and "Le Chien dans la vitrine". In 1954, while performing at Moulin Rouge, she met Bob Hope and subsequently appeared in five episodes of The Bob Hope Show in the US. During this trip, she also sang in the Waldorf Astoria (New York) and the Cocoanut Grove (Los Angeles), appeared on Johnny Carson, Dinah Shore and Ed Sullivan shows and recorded with Dean Martin the songs "Relax-Ay-Voo" and "Two Sleepy People". In 1959, she started a four-year run of Plaisir de Paris for Henri Varna and then went on to perform in a Las Vegas show at Dunes from 1963 to 1965. In 1966 she returned to Paris and the Casino de Paris starring in a new show, Desir de Paris. In 1968, she returned to Las Vegas for a number of performances. In France, in 1973 she created an American show which she toured for two years around the country. She then helped Casino de Paris, threatened by closing, by putting on a show called ‘Paris – Line’ with Loulou Gasté, which ran for four years. In the 1980s, she starred in a TV show Telle est Line for Antenne 2 and recorded songs in English and French. At Casino de Paris, she put on a one-off show which retraced her forty-year career. Also, in 1981, she served as an unofficial on-air "guide" for Merv Griffin when he taped "The Merv Griffin Show" in Paris, and in 1982 she was a guest on Perry Como's Christmas special in Paris. In 1989, she toured around Japan as part of a festival which marked the bicentennial of the French Revolution. ... Source: Article "Line Renaud" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

La voyante

2014

As Vera

Fugueuses

2008

As Claude

En Cas de Malheur

2009

As Viviane Guérand

La Douce Empoisonneuse

2014

As Clémence

La Madelon

1955

As Madeleine Thuilier dite La Madelon

Belinda and Me

2014

As Jacqueline

Mademoiselle and Her Gang

1957

As Agnès Bourdieux

Remembering You

2017

As Mado

The Robin Sisters

2006

As Marie Robin

Simple question de temps

2012

As Laurence Delcourt

Pleins feux

1992

As Adeline Margaux

Ils sont dans les vignes...

1952

As Rose Filhol

Harold et Maude

2012

As Maude

Pleins feux

2017

As Alice Margaux

Très chère Mathilde

2011

As Mathilde Giffard

Folle Amanda

1983

As

Huguette

2019

As Huguette

Suzie Berton

2004

As Suzie Berton

À nous deux la vie

1998

As Fanny

Aller retour dans la journée

2007

As Élise Villedieu

Hully Gully

1964

As Self

Driving Madeleine

2022

As Madeleine

Le Squat

2021

As Colette

La Voisine

1997

As

Blood Sisters

1997

As Garance

Le Prochain voyage

2023

As Jacqueline

La Croisière

2011

As Simone

Fallen from the Sky

2008

As Louise

Family Is Family

2018

As Suzanne Duquesne, Valentin's mother

Polly West est de retour

1993

As Polly West

Sixième classique

1996

As Madame Cotelle

Le Palmier

0000

As

Doggy Bag

1999

As La mère

Belle Maman

1999

As Nicou

Chaos

2001

As Mamie

Ma femme me quitte

1996

As Margot Piquet

A Cursed Monarchy

2005

As Marie de Hongrie

The Courage to Love

2005

As Line

A House of Your Dreams

2006

As Tata Suzanne Bailleul

My New Partner II

1990

As Simone

Let's Dance

2019

As Nicole

Santa's Apprentice

2010

As Solange Folichon (voice)

Paris Still Sings!

1951

As Self

Knock, Knock, It's Mom!

2021

As Mamoune

Welcome to the Sticks

2008

As Mrs. Bailleul

I Can't Sleep

1994

As Ninon

Mon Chirac

2019

As Self

The Great Restaurant II

2011

As The lady with the canary

The Sands of Time

1992

As Mme. Angelis

I Love You Coiffure

2020

As Mme Vinard (segment "Le Salon de coiffure")

Devil and the Angel

1946

As Cabaret singer

In France with Madonna

2022

As Self (archive footage)

Double or Quits

1953

As The singer

Sheila, toutes ces vies-là

2022

As Self (archive footage)

Boom on Paris

1954

As Self

Over the waves

1951

As Self

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