At the end of 1975, Christopher Reeve took part in the casting of the Broadway play A Matter of Gravity: it was to be the …
Henry Mancini: Pioneer of film music
The name Henry Mancini is synonymous with legendary film music: like hardly any other film composer before him, he changed the world of film music.His …
Marlon Brando: The character actor
In the fall of 1943, Marlon Brando was drawn to New York: there he enrolled at the Theatre Wing Professional School to learn the art …
The Godfather: Masterpiece of cinema
Many film lovers consider it the best film of all times: The Godfather (part one: 1972). The three-part mafia epic is based on the novel …
Tête de Moine: Cheese from the Jura mountains
Cheese lovers all over the world are enthusiastic about the Swiss cheese Tête de Moine, which comes from the Swiss canton of Bernese Jura. Bernese …
John Wayne: The Duke (2.)
Continued from part one John Wayne made one of his special dreams come true in 1952: he founded his own independent production company, Batjac Productions. …
John Wayne: The Duke (1.)
There is only one actor who is associated with the Western like no other: John Wayne. Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in 1907 in Iowa. In his younger years, he was always accompanied by his dog, an Airedale Terrier named Duke…
Espelette pepper: Chili from the Basque region
When one thinks of high-quality French products, champagne, cognac or fleur de sel immediately come to mind. What is less well known is that the …
Tarte flambée: Alsatian tradition
In the past, baking tarte flambée was a way to estimate the temperature of a wood-burning oven without a thermometer: Today, tarte flambée is a …
Yves Montand: Chanson, Charm, Chic (2.)
In 1966, Yves Montand starred in the Formula One film Grand Prix, which was originally planned to feature Steve McQueen. To this day, Grand Prix remains a unique film: the realistic footage of the racetrack, shot at enormous expense, still amazes.
Montand plays the fictional Ferrari driver Jean-Pierre Sarti in the film.
Although the sixties were an era of professional success for Yves Montand, two strokes of fate occurred in that decade…