Part documentary, part stage performance, this entertaining look at French chanteuse Edith ... Piaf while singing, but steps back and tells her story - in English - between the mostly French songs.
Dumont, a former trumpet player who once dreamed of becoming a jazz musician, wrote grand love songs and ballads ... Yet he remained best known for his work with Piaf, the “Little Sparrow ...
Dumont's career was unremarkable until he managed to persuade Piaf to use Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien at the start of the 1960s. He went on to compose almost 40 songs for the singer, who was one of ...