P er 's astrological update, today I will speak of the biography of Maurice Chevalier , famous singer and actor of the last century, a famous interpreter of French musical film in the twenties and thirties, defined as a kind of Fred Astaire beyond the Alps.
actually began performing with his older brother in a circus as an acrobat, but after an accident was forced to abandon his circus career, and that was how he was just 11 years began to earn the first francs as a singer! A free 13 years at a performance in a café a well-known theater actor noticed and suggested he audition for a musical at a local level. Did not need to repeat twice, introduced himself and got the part, thus giving rise to its extraordinary career.
was born, the youngest of nine children, 12 September 1888, in Paris, with a modest block in the sun sign of Virgo, however, redeemed by the presence of an important and ambitious Leo Ascendant, which surely led him to choose a career in the spotlight.
contemporary The presence of a Saturn in the first then has certainly led to a Maurice tireless and continuous self-analysis, also giving him a background inflexibility and stubbornness in pursuing his goals that brought him to his deserved success.
The Sun, although it is retiring in Virgo, is in second house, which combined with the bright Moon / Sagittarius in the fifth house in perfect trine to that Saturn / Leo in the first, produces a strong inclination to cultivate his image, making it the center of their profession (actor and singer in fact), in this case therefore fits perfectly, since the end able through it to gain the necessary confidence in the character of our greatest need had to live with calm and carefree your life, protected by shocks and economic uncertainty.
course you can not say that his life was easy, even from his childhood was immediately difficult to confirm the injury of his Moon (the planet that fits this age of life) and its planets injured in the fourth house (the family).
As you say in fact the birth of his Sun he came from a modest family: his mother, Josephine , was a lace maker and his father Victor , alcoholic, was a painter, but did not have a stable job and for more abandoned our family when he was only 8 years, (the absence of the father figure is indicated by the Sun in the second house and more without issues, which often denotes an estranged father satisfactory or interested only in material issues).
So, like their older brothers, too 'he had to leave school early to bring something home with odd jobs: initially for a period, as an acrobat in a circus, then as an apprentice engraver, then as a carpenter and then as a laborer in a factory.
long, encouraged by the mother herself in her artistic ambitions ( evidenced by conjunction Mercury / Venus in Libra), you will find in singer café in Paris, where he put to good use all his creativity, colorendo le sue esibizioni canore con aneddoti spiritosi e trovate umoristiche, tipiche di una terza casa importante, come la sua.
In piena prima guerra mondiale, si arruolò nell'esercito francese, in fanteria, ma nel 1914 fu ferito da un pezzo di granata che gli perforò un polmone (Marte/Sagittario opposto alla sua congiunzione Nettuno/Plutone in Gemelli) e venne fatto prigioniero dalle truppe tedesche trascorrendo oltre 2 anni nel campo di prigionia di Alten Grabow (cosa che gli valse l' onorificenza della Croce di Guerra). Qui ne approfittò per imparare l'inglese, thanks to a prisoner mother tongue (the presence of Uranus in the third denotes precisely the readiness to grasp good opportunities, even in extreme situations).
After the war he resumed his successful performances in the café chantant Paris (his previous artistic encounter, which occurred in 1909, with Mistinguett , star of "The Folies Bergere , where he became a partner in life, certainly helped to enhance his reputation in that context), until it became popular in Great Britain also began his career film, starring in some silent films.
In 1920 he suffered a severe form of depression that led him to 2 times groped to suicide (and Saturn in the first home must surely have had its weight in this, as well as the opposition Moon / Neptune in the fifth and eleventh), and they lost confidence in his ability interpretative and was hospitalized for a year in a rehabilitation center in Switzerland, a doctor finquando literally forced him to perform for the inhabitants of a small Swiss village and from that moment responded, returning to work.
In 1927 he contracted his first and only marriage to the dancer Yvonne Valley, which, however, divorced after eight years of stormy life together, obeying constraints its seventh in Aquarius, which in itself denotes a certain restlessness background and ties in a real horror for lasting links, contributing also to facilitate separations.
In 1928 he moved to Hollywood, and the following year turned its first sound film "Innocents of Paris."
Since then his character was that of the cultured and refined dandy who keeps his French accent, though speaking perfect English, with its charming swagger and aura of epicurean enjoyment highlighted by his inimitable smile and refined (all due to Mercury-Venus conjunction in Libra), while the ' clothing typical of Parisian boulevard with his bow tie and straw hat (borrowed in 1924 by an unsuspecting passer in London and never abandoned), became his trademark factory.
Still other films shot in America, but two in particular ("Love Parade " and "The Big Pond") earned him a nomination for best actor to ' Academy Award .
The phonograph instead brought several of his achievements on the stage with several magazines and operettas: " Valentine" and " Dans la vie faut pas s' en faire" are only two singing of the triumphs of his twenties.
In Hollywood remained there until 1935, when he finally returned in Europe, where he continued to work in both France and England always great success, earning the title of Knight of Legion of Honor. But the outbreak of World War II interrupted his career, though still tried to continue working as a comedian .
During those years lived with a young actress of Jewish origin (Nita Raya ) and that is why he tried to keep a low profile when German troops invaded France, also agreeing to perform for French prisoners held by the Germans, which cost him the charge of collaboration with the Vichy regime and a fall in popularity at the time of liberation (The tenth house in Aries justifies this sort swinging and discontinuity of its success). Allegations which, however, was completely acquitted, thanks to ' personal involvement Eisenhower.
After the Second World War turned the world thus favoring his three planets in Sagittarius, as a cabaret performer thanks to its " one man show" in various night clubs (Moon in the fifth home), although it suffered a denial of visa to the USA from 1951 to 1954, right in the McCarthy era, for having signed the Stockholm Appeal, which called the 'ban of atomic weapons.
Between 1950 and 1960 finally regained the right audience with a renewed fame, thanks to an emerging genre of music (the twist), which became an interpreter, and musicals like "Gigi" ( 1958), Vincente Minnelli , and " Fanny" (1961), of Joshua Logan , both Leslie Caron , as well as some film Walt Disney, of which ' the last was " Aristocats" (1970), so she sang (in the original version) the song of the opening titles, although it had already withdrawn from the scene nel 1968. Nel 1959 ricevette uno speciale Oscar alla carriera (durata quasi mezzo secolo).
In conclusione possiamo dire che incarnò senz'altro il simbolo della riuscita di un ragazzo di origini popolari (sintetizzando così perfettamente le valenze dei due segni, solare e ascendente), garantendo nei suoi film una comicità innata unita ad un candido buonumore (Luna in Sagittario) senza mai turbare l'ordine prestabilito , ma anzi assecondandolo in tutti i suoi film, da perfetto rappresentante del suo segno natale.
Morì il primo January 1972 the age of 83, maintaining its youthful spirit to the last, as required by the Neptune-Pluto conjunction in Gemini that characterized his generation, following a cardiac arrest during surgery to an intervention a kidney.
He was buried in the cemetery again to Marne la Coquette Hauts-de-Seine in France, where his tomb still contains the floral tributes of his fans.
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