Jean-Pierre Aumont

He is interred in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. And a list of films (see IMDB) including "Inherit The Wind" with Spencer Tracey. When he died in 2001, Jean-Pierre Aumont was one of the most distinguished and famous French actors of the 20th century. Jimmy showed he had comedic talents in TV series including, Bachelor Father, Date With The Angels, Betty White Show, Broadside, My Three Sons, Mother Inlaws etc. Aumont was also a distinguished author, although the English translations of his works were sub-par. Jimmy had several other number one records teaming up with Frankie Laine "tell Me A Story" "Dennis The Menace " with Rosemary Clooney. Two years afterward, he was decorated with the cross of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, and in 1992, he received an honorary César Award. The Frank Sinatra Show CBS soon followed, then Columbia Records and "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", which to date has sold over sixty million records.

He starred in many films throughout the latter half of the 20th century, and one of his more recent works was released in 1989, A Tale of Two Cities. Jarvis immediatly announced Jimmy would be a regular on the show. In the 1960s, he starred in various Broadway productions. Al Jarvis had a five hour talk show everyday on KLAC with a few regulars on it, including Betty White called "Make Believe Ballroom". Aumont continued working with various famous actors and directors. Upwards of twenty thousand telegrams and phone calls. They had two children: Jean-Claude and Patrick, and lived a rather happy life. Jimmy to his astonishment won the talent show, and the next day Al Jarvis and KLAC were literally deluged in telegrams and telephone calls from viewers.

However, the couple divorced in 1962, but rejoined a short while later. Jimmy auditioned for Al Jarvis and was such a hit they put him on the show that night. The couple starred in one film together, John Paul Jones, where Pavan played the romantic interest of the lead, while Aumont cameoed as King Louis XVI. they were told about auditions being held for the Al Jarvis Talent Show on KLAC-TV. In 1956, he married Italian actress Marisa Pavan, star of various films including The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit. While in L.A. Aumont kept working after his wife's death, though, starring as the magician in the extremely successful film, Lili, with Leslie Caron. Cataract surgery in the forties was a serious operation, and had to be done in Los Angeles.

She was known as the "Queen of Technicolor", and their marriage was very happy; however, she tragically drowned and died on September 7, 1951, in the family's villa at Suresnes, France. Leslie had cataracts in both eyes and had to have surgery. While in Hollywood, though, Aumont married Maria Montez, a Dominican actress. Fifty dollars was a lot of money for the Boyds, but Jimmy enjoyed performing and would have done it for nothing. Because of his bravery during the fighting, Aumont received the Legion d'Honneur and the Croix de Guerre. They offered to pay Jimmy fifty dollars every show. Aumont's Jeep was blown up near a mined bridge, and French Brigadier General Diégo-Charles-Joseph Brosset, commander of the 1st Free French Division, was killed. After the dance was over, Texas Jim Lewis and the manager of a local radio station came to Jimmy's parents and asked if he could come sing every Saturday night, and be a part of the hour long radio show they planned to broadcast from the dance.

However, the second was more serious. Jimmy sang and played and the crowd went wild. The first was on a mission with his brother. Texas Jim Lewis, the band leader, called little Jimmy up on the stage. Through the war, he was wounded twice. Jimmy's older brother Kenneth, about nine years old at the time, went up to the bandstand and told the band leader he should hear his little brother sing and play the guitar. Then, he moved with the Allied armies through Italy and France. Leslie and Winnie ocassionaly took the kids with them to a Country and Western dance, held in a barn in Colton, California a few miles from Riverside.

After the completion of the film, Aumont was sent to North Africa, where he participated in Operation Torch, specifically in the country of Tunisia. Leslie got a meanial job cleaning up construction sites. Therefore, after finishing his film, The Cross of Lorraine (which was highly liked by certain Resistance leaders, including Charles de Gaulle), he joined the Free French. Although there was no cotton in California to pick, this time they were determined to stay. He began working with MGM; however, he was not content with staying in the safe United States while his fellow countrymen were fighting for their lives in Europe. The family after being sent back to Mississippi a year earlier by the Welfare Department for not having any skills to get a good job. Leslie had been a farmer when the draught hit and there were no more crops, he picked cotton, he could pick over five hundred pounds of cotton a day himself, and was paid twenty five cents. He first fled to an unoccupied portion of Vichy territory, before moving, first to New York City, then Hollywood to further his film career. Hoboing from Mississippi, Louisiana and as far as West Texas, picking cotton to help support his own family of twenty-one brothers and sisters.

Aumont stayed in France until 1942, when he realized that because of his Jewish ancestry, he would be forced to flee from the Nazi forces. He hitchhiked on freight trains to join his family in California, something he had done growing up through the Depression. However, right when his film and stage career began rising quickly, World War II broke out. Having sold everything they owned, and only having enough money for his wife's ticket and the two toddler boys, Leslie rode the rails. However, his most important, career-defining role came in 1934, when Jean Cocteau's play La Machine Infernal (The Infernal Machine) was released in 1934. In 1941 his father Leslie Boyd put his wife Winnie, their two sons Kenneth four years old, and Jimmy two years old on a train bound for Riverside, California. His film debut came one year later, when Jean de la Lune (Jean of the Moon in English) was produced in 1931. He was born January 9, 1939 in an old farmhouse in McComb, Mississippi.

His professional stage debut occurred at the age of 21. Jimmy Boyd is an American singer and musician. Born in Paris, France to a wealthy French family, Aumont began studying drama at the Paris Conservatory, following his mother, at the age of sixteen. Please format this article according to the guidelines laid out at Wikipedia:How to edit a page, then remove this notice. Jean-Pierre Aumont (January 5, 1911 - January 29, 2001) was a French actor. This article needs to be wikified.