LINE RENAUD. The singer, magazine leader and actress is in the spotlight this Friday on France 3, which broadcasts the documentary “The thousand and one lives of Line Renaud” by Mireille Dumas.
[Mis à jour le 25 mars 2022 à 19h54] The thousand and one lives of Line Renaud. This is the title of the unpublished documentary on the singer, magazine leader and actress, directed by Mireille Dumas and broadcast this Friday 25 but on France 3 from 9:10 p.m. But do you know all about this popular artist? Do you know for example that Line Renaud… is a stage name. Indeed, when she was born on July 2, 1928 in Pont-de-Nieppe, Line Renaud was named Jacqueline Ente. She also began her career on the radio under this name.
It is only once she meets Loulou Gasté, a musician she admires above all and who decides to take her under his artistic wing, that he will offer her to transform. He takes charge of her look: new hairstyle, new clothes, and suggests that she find a new surname. She chooses Renaud, her grandmother’s surname. Loulou chooses her first name: Line, an obvious abbreviation of Jacqueline. Exit Jacqueline Ente, hello Line Renaud. And it is under this new name that she will become a star.
From her real name Jacqueline Ente, Line Renaud was born on July 2, 1928 in Pont-de-Nieppe, a village located near Armentières (North). His family is modest: his father works as a truck driver while his mother is a shorthand typist. Her passion for music, Jacqueline inherits it from her father, a trumpeter in a local marching band, who gives her the desire to sing. During the Second World War, it was the women of the house who took care of Jacqueline while her father was at the front and then taken prisoner.
The young Jacqueline Ente is already passionate about music. It was only after the signing of the armistice that she decided to embark on the Parisian music scene where she quickly obtained her first job in the Folies Belleville music hall. In September 1945, she was only 16 when she first met Loulou Gasté, twenty-one years her senior. The musician then discovers a young woman who has the potential to become a star. He decides to take her on his wing. Under his leadership, Jacqueline Ente will metamorphose. Singing and dancing lessons, diet, change of wardrobe and hairstyle… Loulou Gasté thinks of everything. She chose her grandmother’s surname, Renaud, while Gasté gave her a new first name. This is how Line Renaud was born. Very quickly, success reaches out to him. She goes on tour and triumphs in particular with titles like snow star. In 1950, she married Loulou Gasté.
Later, the celebrity of Line Renaud will even pass beyond the French borders and in particular in England where it will occur and even be noticed by Bob Hope, a comedian very known in the United States, who proposes to him to appear on his show. five evenings. Thanks to him, she will begin to sing across the Atlantic, notably at the Waldorf Astoria in New York and at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles. She is invited pell-mell to Johnny Carson, Dinah Shore or even Dean Martin, with whom she will sing Relax.
Line Renaud took advantage of her star status to go into the cinema and in 1959 became the reviewer of the Casino de Paris. With her, Pleasures of Paris will remain at the top of the bill for four years in a row after which she will fly to Las Vegas where one of the biggest casinos in the city, the Dunes, engages her in a spectacle which will last two years. In Paris, at the beginning of the 1970s, she launched “Paris-Line”, a magazine that would last four years. In 1985, Line Renaud is at the origin of the Association of Artists against AIDS, a disease against which she wishes to fight. His association aims to raise funds through the organization of artistic events.
Ten years later, the love of her life, Loulou Gasté, died at the age of 86. Line Renaud will then decide to take refuge in work to try to heal her bruised heart. She then goes on to projects in the theater as well as in front of the cameras. She publishes books, including Mom, which she dedicated to her mother. Of all her career, it is difficult to keep only one memory as Line Renaud has accumulated different projects and exciting lives. Known all over the world, she is one of those French people who knew how to tame the United States. So much so that if you walk around Las Vegas, you might even find yourself on a street dedicated to him! The Line Renaud Road was inaugurated by Line Renaud itself in September 2017.
Throughout her life, Line Renaud has multiplied the caps. From singer and magazine leader, the artist has also appeared in many films and television series, making her one of the most popular actresses:
At the movie theater :
- 2018 : The Ch’tite family
- 2012 : A few hours of spring
- 2011 : The cruise
- 2010 : Santa’s Apprentice
- 2008 : Miss Chambon
- 2007 : Welcome to the Ch’tis
- 2006 : Scorpion
- 2005 : The House of Happiness, Dolmen
- 2004 : The Human Kind 2nd part: Happiness is better than life, The Mirror of Water
- 2002 : 18 years later
- 2001 : Chaos
- 1999 : Doggy Bag
- 1998 : Step mother
- 1993 : I’m not sleepy
- 1954 : Boom on Paris
- 1951 : Paris still sings
- 1946 : The Fair of Chimeras
On the television :
- Ricky or the good life
- The silence of the hawk
- La Grande Beke
- The water mirror
- Louise and the markets
- Ten percent
- The water mirror
- The little girl in a sailor suit
During her film career, Line Renaud has received critical acclaim several times. She was notably nominated in 1995 for the César for best actress in a supporting role for I’m not sleepy by Claire Denis, in 2000 and 2002 in the same category for Step mother by Gabriel Aghion and Chaos by Coline Serreau.
In 2019, France holds its breath when it learns that one of the country’s favorite personalities has come close to death. “It was around 7:30 a.m. My dog, Pirate, was sleeping on my bed. I get up to go to the bathroom and there I slip. I fall to my seat, at the foot of the bed, unable to get up. Pirate looks at me. I don’t understand what’s happening to me I try to move – ‘Get up, you idiot!’ – , like in those dreams where you are unable to flee when there is an emergency. God knows how my legs got stuck under the bed. It was while struggling that I had to break my right ankle I was conscious, but I didn’t hurt anywhere,” confided the former reviewer to Paris Match.
It was Jacinthe, who works at Line Renaud, who called the emergency services. “As usual, she opened the door of my room quietly, so as not to wake me. Pirate always rushes outside, for his needs. There, he stayed close to me. Suddenly, Jacinthe came in and saw me on the floor. She gave me a drink, my mouth was still dry. She rushed to the phone to call for help. If Pirate had left the room, Jacinthe wouldn’t have seen me. can say that he saved me!”, she adds in the magazine.
Line Renaud was hospitalized from “April 10, 2019, I joined the Stell hospital, in Rueil, on the 16th, and I left it on July 12. It took me another six weeks here for me to be able to stand on my right leg.”
She was reluctant, she finally took the plunge: Line Renaud, then 92 years old, was vaccinated against the coronavirus, in Rueil-Malmaison, in the Hauts-de-Seine, Monday January 18, 2021. A city led by Mayor LR Patrick Ollier on whose arm she arrived. After the opening of vaccination to people over the age of 75, who are not necessarily in Ephad, the singer and leader of the review will have been one of the first to be injected with the vaccine.
“It’s a question of life for you, yours first. And then that of others. I was very reluctant. I didn’t know, I had rather decided to wait to see the secondary results, s “There were side effects. And then given the scale of the epidemic, I decided to go,” she confided to AFP. Line Renaud decided to get vaccinated in front of the cameras to set an example. “What I can say to people who are still reluctant is that it’s a matter of life for yourself and for others. It’s an act of collective solidarity,” added one of the most popular public figures. of France.