Albert WiIllemetz was born in a Parisian family , feb.14th 1887. His outstanding ability to say everything in verse, starts from school , where he was simultaneously with Sacha Guitry, his best friend. CARMEN is the revelation of his
vocation at 13 years old : his father, Edouard, asks him to study
before... He arrives one hour late to the State Department Concours : the examinator replies : " do you think you are in the administration yet ?" The end of the 14-18 war starts
with PHI-PHI and many other sucessful musical comedies. It is
interesting for non present successful authors to notice that
the coming of PHI-PHI was not an immediate success. |
Albert Willemetz with Sacha Guitry |
With his theater Bouffes Parisiens,
he creates main Jean Cocteau plays and in the nice drawing on
the left page, you can read " Merci " with a great
" M " ("THANKS"): the date of 1941 speaks
by itself... In 1951, he creates the Charity "Comité du Coeur " to help actors and artist. Maurice Chevalier will give his house of Cannes, an important real estate , to this charity. |
He is the only president of SACEM
and CISAC not to be able to read music . Claude has a son Albert : the reception for the recent born child gathers more than 1000 friends of Albert Willemetz . What a wonderful life to have reach to get so many friends ! |
drawing
by Jean Cocteau 1941