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She made a full recovery, appeared in a further revue in 1977 and was on stage in her pointe shoes as the heroine of Petit’s ballet La Chauve-Souris in 1979.

She was 9, the same age as her classmate Roland Petit. She gave Petit an ultimatum: he must create a ballet for her or she would leave him. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism. Jeanmaire was troubled by an injury that necessitated an operation and a two-month layoff. In 1949, Carmen made stars of both Jeanmaire and Petit. He had first had her sing in a ballet in 1950 in La Croqueuse de Diamants (The Gold Digger), in which her husky, suggestive voice had won her the Grand Prix du Disque award. In 1956 Zizi was back in front of the cameras for the revue film Folies Bergères, and that year Petit made his first Paris stage revue for her. The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. One of the customs of the school is that pupils ask a dancer in the company to become their “little mother” or “father” to guide them. Their only child, Valentine, was born a year later. “It was thanks to this role that I could express my personality as a dancer,” she told the newspaper Le Monde in 2006. The company returned to the US for a second season where she was astonished to discover that women everywhere had imitated her haircut. Boris Horvat/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Samuel Goldwyn produced her first film, “Hans Christian Andersen,” and it was he who suggested that she change her name from Renée to the more alluring “Zizi,” a childhood nickname. She was also a style star celebrated for her pixie haircut and marvellous gams – even better than Dietrich’s, according to some. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Petit, who wanted to choreograph and direct his own company, followed soon after. At Petit’s request, Zizi Jeanmaire bobbed her hair short and wore a very brief black corset. The idea had come to Petit during a tour of Germany and initially he was undecided as to which of his ballerinas would dance the title role. In 1952 Petit choreographed (at Howard Hughes’s request) Hans Christian Andersen for Zizi Jeanmaire and Danny Kaye; but his affairs with Rita Hayworth and Elizabeth Taylor caused an inevitable rift with his leading lady. In 1981, Frank Rich wrote in The New York Times that Ms. Jeanmaire’s appearance in the lead role of Pistache in Cole Porter’s “Can-Can” was the show’s “one authentic link to the world it wishes to celebrate.”. Jeanmaire profited from her enforced leisure to work secretly on her singing voice and, when she performed the principal number before an astonished Petit, the role was hers.

(The director, Serge Lifar, welcomed high-ranking German officers to the theater and was accused of collaboration after the war.). It was the start of a 78-year relationship, professional and private, that ended only on his death in 2011. Her father, Marcel, was a businessman whom Zizi later described as the complete self-made man. The erotic directness of her pas de deux with Petit caused, it was said, visible excitement among males in the audience, and the leading British ballet choreographer Frederick Ashton commented sadly that his own neo-classical ballets would now be considered old-fashioned. The recording of the ballet’s title song, with words by the poet Raymond Queneau, won her the Grand Prix du Disque. But her relationship with Petit remained ambiguous until they reunited after their respective stints in Hollywood and on Broadway; they married in 1954. The longed-for only child of her parents, Renée Marcelle Jeanmaire was born in Paris. “I suffered greatly at that time,” Jeanmaire remarked later. “When I was little my mother called me ‘mon Jésus’ which transformed into ‘mon Zizi’,” Jeanmaire wrote in her autobiography. Among many honours, she was made a chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, an officier de la Légion d’honneur and a commandeur de l’Ordre national du Mérite. Still in love with him, she was determined that he would create a ballet for her. Zizi Jeanmaire is a French ballet dancer and widow of renowned dancer and choreographer Roland Petit. Zizi Jeanmaire was born in Paris, France on Tuesday, April 29, 1924 (G.I. Her departure was followed shortly after by that of her classmate, Petit, who had already begun to choreograph.

She danced with Petit and Erik Bruhn in that film. “I was looking for that, we have the same taste.”. Petit tried to console her, pointing out that she had established a successful career as an actor and singer. Please review our, You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. Her popular status was sealed by Peter Sarstedt’s 1969 hit pop single, Where Do You Go To (My Lovely), which cited Zizi Jeanmaire as the ultimate dancer. One of those talking about Petit was London’s leading ballerina, Margot Fonteyn, with whom he had a significant affair while also retaining Zizi Jeanmaire’s affections. “I am not romantique – my temperament is bouillante, boiling hot,” she told The Daily Telegraph in 1998. Soon after, when Petit was planning a new ballet, “La Croqueuse de Diamants,” featuring songs with lyrics by Raymond Queneau, Ms. Jeanmaire quietly worked on her singing, then won the role by displaying her sultry voice in the title song. Zizi Jeanmaire then featured in Anything Goes (alongside Bing Crosby) but to her chagrin was giving birth to a daughter, Valentine, when her husband was called to choreograph Daddy Long Legs for Fred Astaire in 1955.

He continued to devise spectacles for his wife and she also made television appearances and recordings.

She appeared as the evil Fairy Carabosse in the Ballet de Marseille production (and film) of The Sleeping Beauty in 1990, and starred in Petit’s final stage spectacular for her in 2000 at the Opéra Bastille in Paris. Find out more, With Roland Petit as Cyrano de Bergerac at the Alhambra in 1959, At a dress rehearsal for the show Gainsbourg in Marseille in 1994, Howard Morgan, ebullient portraitist who painted the Queen and other society figures – obituary, Marge Champion, dancer who modelled for Disney’s Snow White and starred in Show Boat – obituary, Brian Locking, bass guitarist who played with the Shadows in Cliff Richard's Summer Holiday – obituary, David Waller, City PR expert who wrote three acclaimed biographies of 19th-century figures– obituary, James Randi, illusionist dubbed ‘the man no jail can hold’ who exposed psychic fraudsters – obituary, Barry Griffiths, leader of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and gifted solo violinist – obituary. Zizi Jeanmaire Funeral, Service, Notices, Coffin, Obituary: Renée Marcelle Jeanmaire, was a French ballet dancer best known as Zizi Jeanmaire, she was the wife of …

Jeanmaire during a dress rehearsal for a revue in Marseille, France, in 1994. Generation). Her final performances were in 2000, in the amphitheater of the Bastille Opera in Paris, featuring songs written by her daughter, who has had her own career as a singer and songwriter. She also took part in a few minor recitals, but at 18 she was bored and unhappy despite attracting favourable notice.



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