Fernandel Wikipedia Biography actor

His father, a modest serving bank, devoted his free time to his performances in a concert cafe under the pseudonym Sine an anagram of his name Denis. At the age of five, Fernan made his debut on the stage of the old Shav Theater the theater was next to the house, and the boy was not far from walking in third -rate melodramas, in pastorals, theatrical scenes from the Gospel, in ancient farces, accompanying his father in all tour, participating in mass scenes as a defender of the empire.

Together with him was his younger brother, with whom they made up the duet Fernan and Marseille. Papa-Kontanden dreamed of seeing his son to those who he himself could not become: the singer famous throughout the district. When Fernan studied at school, he had an example to follow. It was a field-idol. The first meeting with Polen was for Fernan the beginning of the biography.

I can’t say that I understood at the same time the hidden meaning and delicate hints of his maneuster verses. ” And Contanden Jr. immediately gains popularity. Three years later, the Paris newspaper Comedy organized a grandiose contest of amateur chansonets. Paris is a career, and throughout France there were qualifying competitions- a quarter and semi-finals of firing. There were more than a hundred applicants, Fernan was the second.

He was then twelve years old. Now he sang “little blue” under his father’s pseudonym knew all the wagoned Marseille - he went to concerts on the tram, and the delights of the conductors allowed him to save on tram tickets. His glory left Boulevard Shav. A year later, the war began. Father went to the front "... from now on I need to think how to earn a living." It all started with the National Credit Bank.

Fernan stood at the director’s office, reported on the visitors, passing business cards. The first in the life of a cigarette, smoked at the post: on the same day, Fernan was fired, and the first salary turned out to be a weekend. The short-lived service at the soap factory ended no more joyfully: the owner fired him for some kind of pampering, giving out goodbye sixty francs and two pounds of soaps, which came very by the way in the third year of the war.

The same thing happened in the Marseille Credit Society. But this does not bother him: in the evenings he still sings, and if there is no concert, he conscientiously goes to evening courses to replenish his education.

The war ended, and returned home, although somewhat tired of Papa Contanden. Not far from the house, he discovered a little tavern, and Fernan was called up to help. As a result of the first and last financial operation, conceived and carried out by Equeriaciously Fernan, the family almost went to hard labor. Dad had to abandon the services of the heir. And with a vague desire to atone, I decided to try good luck in physical work.

” Fernan became a docker. I must say that the loader did not work out of him. There was no choice: either a physical labor or banks. They change, as in a kaleidoscope. But Fernan is already seventeen and he sings again in the evenings. In the meantime, Fernan is growing up, he signs his first professional contract - “one hundred and ten francs per day” - with the cabaret “Eldorado” in Nice.

He is nineteen years old, and he will celebrate this date in his biography with a red line, for it was then Contanden Sine finally turned into Fernandel. Her is Henrietta Mans, the sisters of his former bank colleague and future screenwriter Jean Mans, whose songs and operettas will become a constant Fernandel repertoire for the next forty years. Fernandel begins to wander throughout France.

For two years he traveled to the south of France, playing in unpretentious vaudens, faras, and opera. Fernandel in the troupe was assigned the role of the first comedian. His physical data and the “horse smile” distinguished Fernandel on the stage. Here you can mention the case from life told by Silmodoy: “When I came to the future father -in -law, I really wanted to make a favorable impression on him and smiled all the time until I yelled the father -in -law: but close your mouth, I want to see your face.” In the province, he was successful, and upon returning from the tour, he was provided with engagement on the Marseille stage.

But the theater Fernandel strongly preferred the musical Hall. At twenty -two, Fernandel is being called into the army, serving the service in the ninety -third mountain artillery regiment, where he was a clerk. After some time, he achieves a transfer to Marseille. And Marseille is a house, it is Henrietta, this is a recently born Josette. The former popularity brings him concessions: the opportunity to spend the night not in the barracks, but in a new family apartment, in Zhores Boulevard.

Even sometimes perform in concerts with your tested repertoire. Having graduated from military service, and not finding a common language with the impressario, burdened with a family, Contanden is forced to go to serve at the soap factory. In the evenings, Fernandel wandered in search of his favorite work. But a miracle happened ... By accident, when Marseille, the director of the Paramount Theater offers a long -awaited contract for a multi -month tour throughout France, including overseas territories.Returning from Casablanca, he discovers a letter at home: the Paris Theater "Bobino" raises its curtain in front of him.

Now he lives in Paris, sings in Bobino. The war was short -lived and ridiculous, it was nicknamed, almost officially, “a strange war”. Fernandel became Fernan Contanden, the ordinary of the Squadron. He sings medieval soldiers' songs in concerts on the Mazhino line, carrying out guard service in breaks, but the sentry smile collects so much onlookers from the post that the authorities have to free the newfront from these duties.

So Fernandel did not have to shoot. In the cinema, Fernandel first starred in the year in the short film “Best Nanny” - “La Meilleure Bobonne”. Fernandel starred a lot. He played in more than in films. Of course, most films are not remembered. The film "Ball Record Book" dir. Julien Duvivier - Julien Duvivier at the Venice Festival in the year received the prize "Best Foreign Film".

In the year, Fernandel acts in a completely unexpected role - the director. As this happened, neither he nor Carlo Rome can explain, explaining anything in his book. As a result, Fernandel made three films: “Ademar and a toy of fate”-“AdHemar OU Le Jouet de La Fatalite” “Prostak”-“Simplet” after his last military picture, the police comedy “The Secret of Saint-Wal”-“Le mystere Saint-Val”, the Fernandley had to read the words that were still in the year would seem blasphemous: “He should insure his fangs, for his talent is depending on the slightest toothache.

He yells and laughs with horror, like a mare in the stable, covered by a fire. ” This meant one thing: the good old time interrupted by the war will no longer return. In the year, Fernandel starred in the film by Julien Duvivier, “The Little World of Don Camillo” or “The Don Camillo,” which laid a series of six films about the rural pastor Don Camillo, which lasted for nineteen years.

In the year, Fernandel received the rosette of the Legion's Honorary and the Medal “For Civil Merit” at that time he will make a tour of Europe, America and Canada, win the ironic nickname “The First after French Culture”, will be accepted by Pope, will become the owner of the Kalllenin Prize, the highest award of the comedian. Fernandel's voice sounds in all schools in France.

And his hero from year to year becomes sadder, more and more uncomfortable. It is no coincidence that in these years, the repetitions of his old paintings appear more and more often. Time passes and the new actors-comedians are being replaced: Burville, Louis de Funes, etc. Somewhere in the middle of X Fernandel was about to star in the films of ten and go on a well-deserved rest.

Fernandel was awarded the title of knight of the Order of Arts and Literature. The awards were repeatedly awarded the Kurtlenen Prize, awarded to the best comedian of France. In the year, Fernandel received the socket of the “Honorary Legion” and the medal “For Civil Merit”. Interesting facts about his face once said that something similar could belong only to the cavalryman who swallowed his horse.

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