Known for:	Jean de Florette, Z, The Wages of Fear
Birth name:	Ivo Livi
Birthday:	13 October 1921, Monsummano Terme (PT), Tuscany, Italy
Height:	6' 2" (1.88 m)

His body was exhumed on 11 March 1998 for a paternity test, which showed that he wasn't the child's father. Singer. Had a love affaire with Marilyn Monroe during the filming of Let's Make Love. The name of "Yves Montand" comes from his childhood: his mother used to yell at him "Ivo, monta" ("come upstairs, Ivo" in Tuscan dialect) when it was time to go home. His only son, Valentin Montand, was born in 1988. Valentin's mother was Yve's assistant, Carole Amiel. Dated famous French singer Édith Piaf from 1944 to 1946. When he was young, he was a hairdresser in Marseille (France). In 1987, adopted Catherine Allégret, than orphan of Simone Signoret and Yves Allégret. Has his look-alike puppet in the French show _"Guignols de l'info, Les" (1988)_ . President of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1987 His parents were Italians. Montand's father, Giovanni Livi, was a locally important figure in the French Communist Party in Marseilles when Montand was in his teens. Montand himself later joined the Communist Party and remained a member until 1968, when he broke with the Party in response to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Admired Fred Astaire. Like his wife Simone Signoret, he is buried in the Père Lachaisse Cemetery in Paris. Became natural citizen of France in 1932.

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