way to go France!

She sang "Hymne à l'Amour made famous by Edith Piaf.

She looked well. The whole opening ceremony was the best and what fascinated me the most, the mechanical horse.

the French national anthem, as I've just watched "CasaBlanca" again recently and was moved by the rendition there where the Victor Laslo character asked the band in Rick's Cafe Americain to play "La Marseillaise" to drown out the nazi officers singing one of their thug songs.

Rick Blaine the owner okay's it and the customers join in and quiet the nazis. It's a very moving scene as even one of the women collaborators at the bar with a nazi starts crying and yells, "Vive la France."

It's of course no news to most here that it's an almost prefect movie.

was in real life French actress Madeleine Lebeau, who, at the time of the filming, was a refugee from Europe with her Jewish husband who was also in the film. Her tears were genuine, not acting, in that scene.

Many of the actors were refugees from the Nazis. The tears were real. It was early1942... none of them knew if they'd ever go home again.

Sorry it was all I could find.

Link to tweet

It was probably him.

but I always chuckle when, with regards to any musical production, someone comments about bring the audience to tears. That can be taken two ways you know. I'm sure that afterwards though, the crowd was not yelling "basta! basta!"

she sounded good considering her health challenges.