ACTOR
Régine
- Known for
- Les ripoux (1984), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), Le train (1973)
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Régine is an actor best known for Les ripoux, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and Le train.
All facts (22)
- #001
As a girl, Régine hid from the Nazis in a Catholic monastery in Germany, and she later spent many years as the owner of a famous nightclub in Paris.
- #002
In June 2011, Régine played the role of Solange in Follies at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
- #003
Régine has a son named Lionel from her first husband, Leon Rothcage, whom she married when she was 16.
- #004
Régine lived in Saint-Tropez with her husband.
- #005
In 1974, Régine founded Jimmy'z, a famous nightclub in Monaco.
- #006
As Zylberberg's fame grew, she established other venues under the name Chez Régine's in London, New York City, Monte Carlo and elsewhere. These were highly selective venues in prime urban locations, all featuring her signature "disco-style" layout.
- #007
Régine was a Belgian-born French singer and nightclub impresario.
- #008
Régine had a hit single with a French version of Gloria Gaynor's "I will survive."
- #009
Régine was born in Belgium to Polish Jewish parents Joseph Zylberberg and Tauba Rodstein, began her life hiding from the Nazis in occupied wartime France, and later invented the "discothèque" (French for nightclub) format.
- #010
After the war, Régine became a torch singer and in 1953 became a nightclub manager in Paris.
- #011
In the 1970s, Zylberberg moved to New York and lived in a suite at the Delmonico Hotel, where she opened one of her clubs on the hotel's ground floor. The club served food under the direction of French chef Michel Guérard.
- #012
Zylberberg's Paris Whiskey à Gogo inspired the later founding of the Whiskey a Go Go nightclub in Los Angeles.
- #013
In 1988, Régine became the manager of the Ledoyen Restaurant on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
- #014
Régine presided over a multimillion-dollar international nightclub empire.
- #015
Régine is credited with inventing today's discothèque by creating a new dynamic atmosphere at the Whiskey à Gogo in Paris and replacing the ubiquitous jukebox with disc jockeys using linked record players.
- #016
In 1957, Régine opened Chez Régine in the Latin Quarter, which became a haunt of celebrities, socialites and aristocrats.
- #017
Régine Zylberberg was born in Anderlecht, Belgium, to a Polish Jewish family and spent much of her life hiding from the Nazis in occupied wartime France.
- #018
Although Régine was internationally best known as a nightclub entrepreneur, in France she was recognized for her contributions to French songwriting. The French singer Renaud called her the last historic representative of French chanson, and she inspired a whole generation of singer-songwriters, among them Serge Gainsbourg and Barbara.
- #019
After performing at the legendary Olympia venue in the French capital in the 1960s, Régine went on to sing at Carnegie Hall in New York.
- #020
The Zylberberg family emigrated to Paris in 1932 after their father, Joseph, lost the family bakery in Anderlecht, Brussels, through poker. Her mother returned to South America. Régine and her brother Maurice were then placed in different boarding houses, and later, during the Second World War, found protection in various cities such as Lyon and Aix-en-Provence; she was subsequently baptized as a Catholic.
- #021
At its peak, there were 25 clubs bearing the name across three continents, and it was said that if you could get in, you could party at a Régine anywhere in the world 17 hours out of every 24.
- #022
Her parents, who lived in Argentina for eight years, were Polish Ashkenazi Jews.
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