For her birthday on 19 December 1945 her song writer Henri Contet offered Édith Piaf the song La Vie en rose. She hesitated for several months and finally recorded it on October 9, 1946. This song became a standard covered by many artists around the world including Louis Armstrong, Mary Hopkin, Marlene Dietrich, Plácido Domingo, Diane Dufresne and more than forty other artists. In 1946, the film Étoile sans lumière was released, in which she played with Yves Montand. She made him known from the spring of 1944, when he sang at the Moulin Rouge in Paris as the opening act for her show.
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