Charles Dumont, a French songwriter and balladeer who wrote the music to Édith Piaf’s signature anthem “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien,” an operatic love song that has endured as a beloved emblem ...

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.

28, 1949, the song picked up a sporting distinction: Piaf dedicated ... her the Best Actress Oscar and the French actor Jean-Pierre Martins played Cerdan. There’s a small Edith Piaf museum ...

The song very nearly did not come to Edith Piaf’s attention. By 1960, exhausted by drink, drugs, love affairs and road accidents, the 45-year-old singer had retired and was refusing to ...

Charles Dumont, the French composer best known for composing Édith ... “She’d already said no to three of my songs,” Dumont said of Piaf in 2013. “I didn’t want to go back, but Michel ...