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 ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Australian biographer Carolyn Burke talks about her new book No Regrets: Edith Piaf. She was one of the ...

Understandably there is both widespread curiosity about the lives of well-known people, including the admirable and the less than admirable, and the desire among artists to produce something that ...

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 ...

A new film — as well as several recently published books — have introduced a younger generation of French citizens to Edith Piaf, the singer nicknamed "the Sparrow." She was only 47 when she died of ...

Edith Piaf was known for her voice, but her face was just as unforgettable. The French singer, one of the most illustrious entertainers of the 20th century, wore the emotion of her songs in her ...

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 ...

BERLIN – Berlin’s annual film festival opened Thursday with a tribute to the turbulent story of diva Edith Piaf – part of a strong French contingent at this year’s event. Olivier Dahan’s “La Vie en ...

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 ...

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 ...