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- Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.
- The world's most popular entertainer and Europe's greatest boxer: the film puts the love affair of these two national heroes against a backdrop of the end of World War II, hotel suites in New York, transatlantic plane flights, Cerdan's loss of the world middleweight title to Jake Lamotta, and Piaf's gift for tragic love songs.
- During WWII penniless American painter Philip Weber decides to collaborate with the Nazi leaders and help them steal priceless French artwork to keep his room in the chic Ritz Hotel and indulge in the pleasures of Nazi-occupied Paris.
- French jazz singer Raquel Bitton is internationally praised as the greatest interpreter of music from the Édith Piaf repertoire. Raquel Bitton's critically acclaimed hit show, Piaf: Her Story...Her Songs, celebrates Édith Piaf's extraordinary life through stories and songs that reflect the major episodes in her life from singing in the streets of Paris as a child to becoming the highest paid singer in the world at that time. Raquel Bitton's heartfelt renditions (sung in French) and her powerful delivery takes her audience on an intensely moving and emotional journey. Woven into the live concert is a luncheon where noted composers, authors, friends and family of Édith Piaf came together at a small bistro at the foot of the Père Lachaise, the cemetery where she is buried, to share intimate personal stories offering a rare look into the true life and persona of Édith Piaf. As the wine poured, the stories flowed. The film includes a new original song by two of Édith Piaf's favorite composers, Francis Lai and Michel Rivgauche, writing together for the very first time.
- Édith Giovanna Gassion is born in 1915. As a young girl she sings on the streets of Paris until a nightclub owner, Louis Leplée, discovers her. When he is murdered the composer Raymond Asso takes care of her and lets her perform at the ABC theatre, which leads to her breakthrough.
- 1982–19842mTV Episode