Louis Jourdan
Louis Jourdan (born Louis Robert Gendre; 19 June 1921 – 14 February 2015) was a French film and television actor. He was known for his suave roles in several Hollywood films, including The Paradine Case (1947), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), Gigi (1958), The Best of Everything (1959), The V.I.P.s (1963) and Octopussy (1983). He played Dracula in the 1977 BBC television production Count Dracula.
Early life
Jourdan was born Louis Robert Gendre in Marseille, France, in 1921, one of three sons of Yvonne (née Jourdan) and Henry Gendre, a hotel owner. He was educated in France, Turkey, and the UK, and studied acting at the École Dramatique. While there, he began acting on the professional stage, where he was brought to the attention of director Marc Allegret, who hired him to work as an assistant camera operator on Entrée des Artistes (The Curtain Rises).
Allegret then cast Jourdan in what should have been his first movie, Le Corsaire in 1939 opposite Charles Boyer. Filming was interrupted by the Second World War and was never resumed.
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- Hollywood Musicals released: 2009
- That's Entertainment! The Ultimate Anthology of M-G-M Musicals released: 2006
- Musical Wonderland released: 2001
- Academy Award Winning Music From MGM Classics 1939–1965 released: 1997
- The Envelope Please...: Academy Award Winning Songs, Volume 3 (1958-1969) released: 1996
- Hollywood's Best: The Fifties released:
Hollywood Musicals
Released 2009- Annie Get Your Gun: There's No Business Like Show Business
- The King and I: I Whistle a Happy Tune
- Gigi: I Remember It Well
- Calamity Jane: Secret Love
- The Pajama Game: Hernando's Hideaway
- South Pacific: There Is Nothin' Like a Dame
- Easter Parade: Easter Parade
- Singin' in the Rain: Good Morning
- Pal Joey: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
- Oklahoma: Oh What a Beautiful Morning
- Kismet: Baubles, Bangles and Beads
- High Society: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
- Calamity Jane: The Deadwood Stage (Whip Crack-Away)
- The Wizard of Oz: Over the Rainbow
- West Side Story: America
That's Entertainment! The Ultimate Anthology of M-G-M Musicals
Released 2006- I've Gotta Hear That Beat
- Make 'em Laugh
- Old Man River
- Be Myself
- New York, New York (extended version)
- The Worry Song
- Singin' In the Rain
- Over the Rainbow
- But Not for Me
- The Trolley Song
- The Boy Next Door
- Under the Bamboo Tree
- Get Happy
- Going Hollywood
- Well, Did You Evah?
- True Love
- Hallelujah!
- Barn Dance (Bless Yore Beautiful Hide)
- Gigi
- An American in Paris Ballet (extended version)
Musical Wonderland
Released 2001- Over the Rainbow
- It's a Most Unusual Day
- Wunderbar
- Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
- Going Hollywood
- The Trolley Song
- Gigi
- I Got Rhythm
- Aba Daba Honeymoon
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- The Best Things in Life Are Free
- Cheek to Cheek
- A Kiss to Build a Dream On
- Put 'em in a Box
- If Swing Goes, I Go Too
- Almost Like Being in Love
- Let's Face the Music and Dance
- Be a Clown
- Embraceable You
- On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe
- One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
Academy Award Winning Music From MGM Classics 1939–1965
Released 1997- Main Title (The Wizard of Oz)
- Over the Rainbow (The Wizard of Oz)
- The Last Time I Saw Paris (Lady Be Good)
- What Makes the Sunset (Anchors Aweigh)
- On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe (The Harvey Girls)
- Easter Parade (Easter Parade)
- Baby, It's Cold Outside (Neptune's Daughter)
- Main Street (On the Town)
- Anything You Can Do (Annie Get Your Gun)
- Love Is Here to Stay (An American in Paris)
- Lili-Hi-Lili, Hi Lo (Lili)
- Barn Dance (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)
- Gigi (Gigi)
- Ben-Hur - Overture (Ben-Hur)
- Lara's Theme - Main Title (Doctor Zhivago)
Hollywood's Best: The Fifties
- Aba Daba Honeymoon
- A Kiss to Build a Dream On
- Singin' in the Rain
- The Tender Trap
- Baubles, Bangles, and Beads
- From This Moment On
- Gigi
- Get Happy
- All of You (extended version)
- If You Can Dream
- When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along
- Love Can Change the Stars
- The Opposite Sex
- Easy to Love
- What Good Is a Gal Without a Guy?
- True Love
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Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby
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I got a gal who's always late
Any time we have a date
But I love her
Yes I love her
I'm gonna walk right up to her gate
And see if I can get it straight
â'Cause I want her
I'm gonna ask her
Is you is or is you ain't my baby
Way you're acting lately makes me doubt
Youse is still my baby, baby
Seems my flame in your heart's done gone out
A woman is a creature that has always been strange
Just when you're sure of what you'll find
She's gone and made a change
Is you is or is you ain't my baby
Maybe baby's found somebody new
Or is my baby still my baby true
Is you is or is you ain't my baby
Maybe baby's found somebody new
Or is my baby still my baby true
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