Singer and actress of the 1940s-1950s, Colette Mars was born in Tangiers,
Morocco, then under French protectorate, on August 10, 1916. She enjoyed
simultaneous success in film and song, starring alongside Jean Gabin and Martine
Carol in the film Miroir, and recording one of her greatest hits, "Il allumait
les réverbères". The following year, she starred in Aux yeux du souvenir, and
played her own singing role in Jacqueline Audry's Sombre dimanche, a film she
also directed for La Garçonne (1957), for which she sang the title song. At the
same time, Colette Mars collected hits on 7...