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To be continued in my ebay store... from a private collector, a very nice set ofBelgian posters original, mainly from the 1950s/1960s
We sell here a very rare autographed copy and signed by Paul MISRAKI, author of the film music
Paul MISRAKI Paul Misraki, whose real name is Paul Misrachi, is a French composer, author and singer born January 28, 1908 in Constantinople and died October 29, 1998 in Paris. Composer and pianist for Ray Ventura in the 1930s, Paul Misraki composed the music for big hits like Everything is very well, Madam Marquise, What are we waiting for to be happy?, It's better than catching scarlet fever, like everyone else... It was sung by Ray Ventura and his Collégiens, Édith Piaf, Georges Brassens, Henri Salvador, Yves Montand, Jacqueline François, Suzy Delair, Nicoletta, Jean Sablon, as well as many American, Argentinian, Brazilian singers and groups, etc. He is also one of the most prolific French film music composers: he composed more than 180 for feature films, notably that of Et Dieu… créa la femme in 1956, but also for Jean Delannoy, Claude Chabrol, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Becker, Jean-Luc Godard, Luis Buñuel, Orson Welles or Jean-Claude Brialy. He is also a writer having published ten books on subjects related to his spiritual journey. Biography Born on January 28, 1908 into a Sephardic Jewish family in Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire, where his father worked for an insurance company, he spent part of his early childhood in Bucharest, then arrived in France in 1917. A middle school student at the Janson-de-Sailly high school, he took private lessons in harmony and counterpoint from Charles Koechlin. He had previously written various musical pieces and been an intern in a piano store on the Champs-Élysées. In 1929 he joined the troupe of his classmate Ray Ventura, Ray Ventura et ses Collégiens, as composer-arranger-pianist. He is also, with Coco Aslan, one of the two main solo singers of the orchestra: we hear him in At home, Insensibly, On two notes, The general sleeps standing up, The little island, The little fishing boat, Tching Kong, The three mandarins, I don't know if I like him, etc. The 1930s were for him both the Ventura years, with the phenomenal successes of Everything is very well, Madam Marquise, of What are we waiting for to be happy?, the American covers of At my house and the discovery of music for cinema, but these are also years of search for meaning. Paul Misraki's father had dreamed of his son taking over the family insurance company, and here he is a musician! Paul Misraki himself dreamed of symphonic music, and here he is, the author of the most famous comic song of the moment! In search of meaning, the singer-songwriter spends his weekends reading, spinning tables, visiting Notre-Dame de Chartres cathedral, thinking of retiring permanently to a monastery. Eventually, he converted to Catholicism and chose to practice his religion in real life. The Second World War saw the Collégiens embark on a tour of South America at the time when the German army invaded the free zone. In Brazil then in Argentina, Paul Misraki composed for Ray Ventura's orchestra (which Henri Salvador joined), but also for the cinema, and even a musical, entitled Si Eva se hubiese vestido, from which the song will be taken Una Mujer, which has become a standard in Argentina, but also in Brazil. He will always maintain close ties with the alumni of the Ray Ventura orchestra, notably André Cauzard, with whom he will share numerous philosophical, religious and even scientific exchanges, notably on their reciprocal belief in the existence of UFOs. He will co-organize with him an annual meal for the “alumni” of the orchestra. In 1945, RKO contacted him to collaborate in Hollywood on Heartbeat, A Heart to Take, a remake of a French film (Battement de coeur) on which Paul Misraki had already collaborated. He complies, composing a scene for Ginger Rogers that has remained famous, but the need to return to his family, in France, is the strongest. He embarks from New York for Le Havre where his brother welcomes him and tells him of the death during deportation of his mother, his aunt and his uncle, at Auschwitz. Paul discovers all his property seized, his apartment occupied... Only his piano, a Pleyel dating from 1932, was saved by one of his friends, who believed in his return. From 1946, Paul Misraki's collaborations became more varied. He finds Édith Piaf and Danielle Darrieux, but the range of interpretations increases, at the same time as the success of Ray Ventura declines. Film music is increasingly taking over and Paul Misraki becomes an essential composer of the New Wave, notably with the music of And God created the woman by Roger Vadim. At the same time, Paul Misraki began to publish books recounting his spiritual trajectory: philosophical dialogues, novels, essays on esoteric subjects (UFOs, life after death, etc.), and finally books where he explained the reasons for his Catholic faith. , and the Catholicism he believes in. Paul Misraki married in 1950 in Lille and had three children. Paul's family publishes numerous songs and operettas via the family publishing house: Tout Va Très Bien Promotion. Since 2018, events have followed one another with Paul Misraki at their center: original show (What are we waiting for to be Mômes?) at the Déjazet theater, return on stage of his flagship operetta Normandie in Compiègne, then at La Nouvelle Ève and soon everywhere in France and Belgium, as well as the operetta Double Six (created in 1937, the year after Normandy) at the Angel Parra Center in Paris 14th, numerous broadcasts, notably on France Musique, available in podcast, participation in conferences, at the La Baule Film and Film Music Festival… and an exhibition entitled Paul Misraki of Jazz on the Screen Among his first songs, after Fantastique which became the theme song for the Ray Ventura Orchestra, came the unforgettable Tout va très bien madame la marquise (1935), inspired by a sketch by Bach and Laverne, soon followed by other successes among which : Come to my house (1935), I would like to know more (1936), You who pass without seeing me (1936), co-signed with Charles Trenet and Johnny Hess, It's better than catching scarlet fever (1937), I sing (1937), co-signed with Charles Trenet, On Two Notes (1937), Tching Kong (1937), The Archduchess's Shirts (1937) In my heart (1937), What are we waiting for to be happy? (1938), Like Everyone (1938), Cleopatra's Nose (1938), The Marquise Travels (1938), Here, here, here (1939), Ah can't wait for Sunday (1939), A Charade (1940), Insensibly (1941), Una Mujer (1943), Maria of Bahia (1947), Without You (1947), In mid-August (1949), The Little Candlelight Supper (1949), The portrait of Aunt Caroline (1949), So much I am in love with you (1949), Maybe I'm Wrong (1949), In Saint-Germain des Prés (1950), Despite everything (1950), In Véra-Cruz (1950), The Waltz of the Proud (1953), Head in the Shadow (1953), Tell Me Something Nice (1956), The Pond (1957), You can't imagine (how I love you) (1960), The Marquise said (1961), The Shutters Closed (1972) He is also the author of a symphonic work entitled Rhapsodia Brasileira created at the Concerts Colonne in 1967, then played in 1968 at the Rio de Janeiro Festival, and also of several operettas: Normandie (1936), Double Six (1937), Le Chevalier Bayard (1948), La petite datcha (1960), Mouche (1966). Paul Misraki was a member of SACEM for more than 60 years, he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1990, received the badge of the Order of Arts and Letters, as well as the Grand Prix twice of the Chanson de la SACEM, in 1964 and 1982. Paul Misraki died in Paris on October 29, 1998, and is buried in the Montparnasse cemetery (12th division). Film music Paul Misraki is the author of 185 film scores. We will go to Monte Carlo is a French film shot in two versions, a French version produced by Jean Boyer and an English version Monte Carlo Baby co-directed by Jean Boyer and Lester Fuller. The film was released in 1951. French synopsis Marinette, the fickle daughter of a nanny from Vésinet in whose house a crooked impresario hid the baby of an American star, confused him with Nicolas, the grandson of Max Elloy, drummer of the Ventura Orchestra. She makes him give it to him as Elloy is about to take the train to the Monte-Carlo Jazz Festival where the orchestra is going to perform. But Elloy fears that if he bothers with the little one, Ventura will replace him with another drummer. So he imagines placing the child in Ventura's compartment, and passing him off as the natural son of one of the orchestra musicians abandoned by his mother. Meanwhile, in Vésinet, the nanny returns from the provinces, realizes that her daughter has the wrong child, and sends her to Monaco to get him back by any means. The child's father is also seeking to get the child back. A vaudeville situation ensues, with numerous misunderstandings. Everything will end with a happy ending. English synopsis In London, during the emergency closure of a nursery for fear of an epidemic, the baby of a JEUNE British star is mistakenly handed over to Ray Ventura's French orchestra leaving for Monte Carlo. The musicians quickly become attached to the infant while the alarmed nurse goes looking for him. The JEUNE star will recover her baby safe and sound in Monte-Carlo after misunderstandings and confusing situations to the rhythm of the orchestra's catchy songs...
- ORIGINAL BELGIAN poster Poster size: approximately 47.5 x 36 cm Title of the film: “WE WILL GO TO MONTE-CARLO” musical film RAY VENTURA and his Orchestra Year / Year: release of the film 1951 Please note: the film was released in Belgium Before its release in France and the USA Release dates: December 14, 1951 in Belgium January 25, 1952 in France December 16, 1953 in the United States Director / Directed by: Jean BOYER Music by Paul MISRAKI - During the filming of the film in 1951 on the Côte d'Azur, the writer Colette have noticed Audrey Hepburn (22 years old at the time), and immediately approached her for the role of “ Gigi » in the English theatrical adaptation of her eponymous work planned to be staged by Raymond Rouleau on Broadway the same year, a play which would launch Audrey's international career with the subsequent filming of the film Roman holidays (Novel Holiday) in 1953. Cast / Starring: Philippe Lemaire, Audrey Hepburn (French version: Melissa Walter; English version: Linda Farrell), Marcel Dalio, Ray Ventura (Himself, with his orchestra), André Luguet, Role of Antoine (French version: Henri Génès; English version: Jules Munshin) Role of Jacqueline (French version: Danielle Godet; English version: Michele Farmer), Role of Marinette (French version: Jeannette Batti; English version: Cara Williams) Role of Max (French version: Max Elloy; English version: Russell Collins), Michel André, Georges Lannes, René Bourbon, Lucien Callamand, Daniel Cauchy, etc... Distributor / Firm: Mercury Films Illustrator/designer of the poster / Art by: Anonymous Printer of the poster / Printer: Maurice Panneels, Brussels Most of these posters have approximately 70 years, and were used at the time of the release of the films, therefore possibility of small defects of use, various inscriptions, rubbing, small tears on the edges, various folds, inevitable traces of handling, small losses of paper on the edges, etc... see visuals... (the poster photographed is indeed the copy sold, see the other visuals at the bottom of the page after the descriptive text) Here Very good general condition, barely yellowed paper, various very minor creases, on edges or corners, discreet central fold, clean and fresh
Beautiful poster Very Rare, especially with dedication Very desirable... Item Sold in the condition described, as found...
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