Édith Piaf (born Édith Giovanna Gassion, 19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963) was a French singer, lyricist and actress. Noted as France's national chanteuse, she was one of the country's most widely ...

A dreamlike, impressionistic biography of the singer affectionately known as “The Little Sparrow,” “La Vie en Rose” flutters around the various stages of French national icon Edith Piaf’s eventful ...

A new biography of Edith Piaf debunks several myths about the doyenne of post-war French music, including claims she was born on the streets, suffered from blindness and helped prisoners during World ...

The same day the Edith Piaf bio-pic “La Vie en Rose” opens onmovie screens in San Diego, a new musical about the Frenchchanteuse will debut at the Escondido community theaterTHEATRX. Written and ...

If nothing else, “La Vie en Rose” gets across one message about the great Edith Piaf: She was a big pile of crazy. A drag queen waiting to happen, Piaf was the French equivalent of Judy Garland, if ...

In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, we’re talking about great songs not sung in English. Dressed in a funereal black dress, small and frail as though ...

As a teenager living in Paris, Carolyn Burke would come home from school, climb to her small room at the top of a seventh-floor walkup and turn on the radio. Exhausted from the climb as well as her ...

Best known for her Oscar-winning role in the Edith Piaf biography "La Vie en Rose," Marion Cotillard returns to the big screen this month with a starring role in the Christopher Nolan thriller ...

Most musical biopics offer the filmgoer two things, one good, one not. You’ll likely get a fervent, juicy Oscar-time portrayal from whoever is playing Ray Charles, or Buddy Holly, or Johnny Cash, or ...

While Édith Piaf’s name probably won’t ring many bells for English-speaking audiences, her musical works are a staple of ...