Nobody will dare to dispute it: Annie Cordy was also an excellent actress, perfectly at ease in the roles of fantasy than in registers much more dramatic.
The telefilm
Les fiançailles de feu
, by Didier Decoin, directed in 1981 by Pierre Bureau, and offered on Madelen, is clear proof of this.
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In this story which takes place in 1916, at the heart of the Great War, she is particularly moving by playing a discreet villager, "Madame Hortense".
She comes to the aid of the young Corporal Joss, played by Pierre Malet.
Like all single people at the front, he obtained a fortnight's permission to find the wife essential to the rise of a demographic curve in free fall since the mobilization, two years earlier.
Only a few weeks after the broadcast
of The Fire Engagement
, Annie Cordy transforms the essay by becoming the first recurring heroine in the history of the small screen.
In the six episodes of
Madame SOS
., Written by Marcel Mithois, she is a rich heiress, a former music hall star, who decides to help the most disadvantaged.
Jean-Pierre Darras gives him the answer.
Until 2010, between two concerts and two recordings of songs, she will turn around thirty series and unitaries.
In 1990, she thus became one of the main characters
of Summer Rages, Storm Warning
, TF1's summer saga.
She is also present on France 2, in
Baldipata
and
Baldi
, alongside Charles Aznavour, her lifelong friend.
In sixty years of career, Annie Cordy has also turned in forty feature films.
Her filmography features, among others,
The Passenger of the Rain
by René Clément,
The Cat
with Jean Gabin and Simone Signoret,
Rue Haute
which earned her, in 1976, an Award for Best Actress, as well as popular comedies.
She runs, she runs the suburbs
and
Disco
are the two extreme examples.
The beginning of her acting career dates back to 1953. In
Boum sur Paris
, she plays her own role and interprets
Bonbons, caramels, esquimaux, chocolats
.
She was then noticed by Sacha Guitry, who, with his usual elegance, "begged" her to come to his place, avenue Elisée Reclus.
This is how he hired her in
Si Versailles m'être conté
to play Madame Langlois, and perform a song
Y'a bal tonight at Trianon
.
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At the end of his morning filming, he thanks her and whispered in her ear, with his voice recognizable among a thousand, "
given your temperament, you should be interested in the roles of Réjane
".
She will remember this advice when in 1981, she will play
Madame Sans Gêne
and ensure, in this way, the succession of the one who was, with Sarah Bernhardt, one of the most popular French actresses of the early twentieth century.
A moment that she has never forgotten.
In other words, it was hot, but not cocoa.
This is to say if she does not deserve to see her name involved in a ridiculous controversy, launched by an elected official opposed to the oh so justified decision to give the name of the singer-actress to a tunnel in Brussels.
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Chaud Cacao
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