Patachou

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Jun 10, 1918 (107 years old)
Death date
Apr 30, 2015

Patachou

Known For

Pierre or The Ambiguities
1h 1m
TV Show 2001

Pierre or The Ambiguities

This alternate extended TV version of Pola X continues to follow a writer who leaves his upper-class life to journey with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends. New sequences explore the writer's dreams and his relationships with his mother, sister and fiancée.

Hold-up en l'air
Movie 1996

Hold-up en l'air

Tendre piège
1h 31m
Movie 1996

Tendre piège

The engagement of a young couple is spoiled by the antics of their relatives.

Le Cœur étincelant
1h 40m
Movie 1995

Le Cœur étincelant

A young woman is sure that her son is alive

Open Season
1h 37m
Movie 1993

Open Season

A "three people relationship" with a pact involving a terrible past. The pact concerns France, Anne and Pierre.

Wild Target
1h 27m
Movie 1993

Wild Target

Victor Meynard, a hit man who still lives with his mother, is becoming more reluctant to pull the trigger during assignments. He meets a young man, Antoine, whom he takes under his wing after being unable to kill him. Their lives change when he meets Renée, an art forger who has earned the wrath of powerful mob leaders. Unwilling to assassinate the new object of his affections, Victor must run and hide with two new friends in tow.

Les matins chagrins
1h 35m
Movie 1990

Les matins chagrins

Dan, a journalist, lives alone with his daughter since his wife left him for a friend. When he accepts an appointment with him, he finds him dead. Dan decides to investigate the circumstances of the death.

Orages d'été, avis de tempête
13h 30m
TV Show 1990

Orages d'été, avis de tempête

The Carpathian Mushroom
1h 40m
Movie 1990

The Carpathian Mushroom

A miraculous mushroom is discovered by a film director's daughter.It would be used to cure an actress.

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
Movie 1988

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe while visiting Paris and staying at the fabulous Ritz hotel. Rather than cope constructively with it all, the fellow opts to ignore it and continue living the high-life for as long as possible.

Biography

Henriette Ragon (10 June 1918 – 30 April 2015), better known as Patachou, was a French singer and actress. She was an Officier of the Légion d'honneur. Born in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, Henriette Ragon began her working life as a typist, then a factory worker, a shoeseller and an antique dealer. In 1948, with her husband Jean Billon she took over a cabaret-restaurant in Montmartre, called Patachou. (Their son Pierre Billon had some success as a singer in the 1970s and wrote J'ai oublié de vivre for Johnny Hallyday.) She began to sing in the bistro, and journalists began to call her Patachou after the name of her cabaret (pâte-à-choux means cream puff dough). Georges Brassens sang there, and together they sang the duet "Maman, papa". She was the first to interpret other songs he composed such as "Le bricoleur", "La chasse aux papillons", etc. The evening she sang them for the first time, she suggested her audience stay to the end of the show and meet the writer of these songs, and Brassens went up on to the Patachou stage for the first time and sang Le Gorille and P..de toi. Sometimes she would collect half-ties (she would snip the neckties of customers reluctant to join in the singing and immediately staple them to the ceiling, a habit which has created a very original decor of the place - hundreds of neckties hanging above) – Thomas Dewey and Errol Flynn were among her victims. Her first records were released in 1952. She appeared at the Bobino, a Montparnasse music-hall, toured in France and then further afield. From 1953 onwards, she could be seen on-stage at the Palladium, the Waldorf Astoria, and Carnegie Hall, and throughout the United States. From the beginning of the 1970s she toured Japan and Sweden where 'L'eternal Parigot', with her cheeky Parisian register, was popular. Patachou was made Officier of the Légion d'honneur on 1 January 2009. Patachou died on 30 April 2015 at the age of 96. Source: Article "Patachou" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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