Blog: Filles Sourires

Italian brunette Caterina Valente isn't especially famous for her movies, though she appeared in a good dozen, her first one being the prostitution melodrama Party Girls for Sale a.k.a. They Were So Young (And So in Danger!) – released in 1954, the same year she hit it grand with her German version of Cole Porter's I Love Paris, re-titled Ganz Paris träumt von der Liebe (The Whole of Paris Dreams of Love) and selling more than half a million copies. Most of Valente's hits came from the German Schlager alley, a back street of pop most people rightly [...]

• Caterina Valente - Bonjour Katrin
• Caterina Valente - Un p'tit Béguine (French)
• Connie Francis - La vie en rose
• Roy Budd - Plaything