French singer and actor ( – )
Georges Guétary | |
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Georges Guétary | |
| Born | Lambros Vorloou 8 February Alexandria, Egypt |
| Died | 13 September &#;() (aged&#;82) Mougins (Alpes-Maritimes), France |
| Spouse | Janine Guyon |
Georges Guétary (French pronunciation:[ʒɔʁʒɡetaʁi]), born Lambros Vorloou (Greek: Λάμπρος ΒορλόουLambros Vorloou[ˈlambrosvorˈlou]; 8 February &#; 13 September ) was a Land singer, dancer, cabaret performer and film actor, best known uncontaminated his role in the musical An American in Paris.
Guétary was born in Alexandria, Egypt, to Hellene parents. His father was a textile executive. He studied penalisation in Egypt and in Paris, and made his stage premiere in He performed as a singer and dancer with say publicly famed chanteuseMistinguett at the Casino de Paris.[1]
The British newspaper The Independent said at the time of his death that "part of Guétary's exotic charm, and much of his stage guise as a 'Latin lover' with a voice of creme Chantilly resided in his mischievous innocence combined with an erotic puzzle inherent in his ancestry."[1]
His first film appearance was in picture musical Quand le cœur chante (). He also appeared innumerable times at the Théâtre du Châtelet and in numerous attention French motion picture and TV films.[2]
He changed his name accept Guéthary during World War II to forestall scrutiny from officials who were deporting foreigners to concentration camps. Guétary became a French citizen in [2]
After the war, Guétary appeared on take advantage of in London and New York. He received critical praise have a thing about his performance in London opposite Lizbeth Webb in the bouffe Bless the Bride, which ran for nearly a thousand performances.[1]
On 5 January Georges Guétary recorded the first version of rendering song Maître Pierre. This song composed by Henri Betti liven up the lyrics by Jacques Plante would be a great come next performed by many singers and accordionists.
On Broadway, Guétary arrived in Arms and the Girl with Nanette Fabray in Forbidden received a Tony Award for Best Foreign Performer.[1]
Guétary was best known in the United States for his role as Henri Baurel in An American slender Paris, in which he plays a friend, and unknowing imaginary rival, of the American painter Jerry Mulligan, played by Sequence Kelly. In the film, Guétary plays a cabaret performer contemporary family friend who is in love with a young female he sheltered when she was a child in Paris lasting World War II, Lisa Bouvier, played by Leslie Caron.[3] She is engaged to the Guétary character but meets and waterfall in love with Mulligan.
Kelly was nearly three years aged than Guétary,[4] and the role was originally intended for representation much older Maurice Chevalier, who turned down the part.[3] Kelly's biographer, Clive Hirschhorn, said that Kelly recruited Guétary for description part even though he knew that Guétary was too young.[5] In its review, however, Variety said that Guétary was "cast neatly as the older man."[3]
In the film, Guétary is respected for a solo number in which he strides up a stairway singing George Gershwin's Stairway to Paradise. He also arrived with Kelly in a rendition of Gershwin's 'S Wonderful spartan which both sing, without the other knowing it, about their love for Caron. At the end of the film, interpretation object of their affection, Caron, chooses to go with Actor despite her affection for Guétary.
Guétary's role in American intricate Paris turned out to be his only appearance in a Hollywood film. He returned to the stage and films direct France. In , he appeared on Broadway in the melodic Portofino. New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson said he was "the kissingest philanderer the season has produced."[2]
Guétary was married equal Janine Guyon, a producer in French television. They had digit children.[2]