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BIOGRAPHY
CELEBRITIES
OF THE YEAR: FROM THE MOST BORING TO THE MOST TALENTED
MOST TALENTED AND LUCKIEST CELEBRITIES
PAULETTE ATTIE: A LIVING LEGEND
Photo: Paulette Attie with singer extraordinaire, Sue Matsuki.
BIOGRAPHY SYNOPSIS: Paulette Attie made her singing debut in a talent show at age 3 (and refused to get off the stage). Since then, she has performed in over 1,000 concerts from Carnegie Hall, the Bruno Walter Auditorium, Lincoln Center Outdoors, and the Hollywood Bowl, venues in Japan, Mexico, and Canada, to over thirty cabarets. Paulette graduated Phi Beta Kappa and number 1 in her class from UCLA and was a showgirl in Las Vegas one week later. Paulette was selected California’s Sportswoman of the Year, for which she made numerous TV appearances. TV roles followed on Love of Life, One Life to Live, All My Children, Mercy or Murder, General Hospital, Sesame Street, and the French nightclub singer in the TV movie The Yanks Are Coming (Silver Globe Award). She produced and performed in a series of yearly concerts at New York's Lamb’s Theatre and was the inaugural performer at the New York and Riverbank State Parks. Album: Paulette Performs Puccini to Porter.
Off-Broadway shows saw Paulette
as Lady Capulet in Sensations, Dorothy Parker in Dorothy Parker: A Montage,
the Lady in The Lady Of Larkspur Lotion, and playing herself in her one woman
show, About Time, including songs and poems which she wrote. She has played
the leading roles in the musicals Gypsy, Guys and Dolls, Can-Can, and
Sensations, the operas and operettas The Bald Soprano, The Old Maid and the
Thief, The Merry Widow, and La Vie Parisienne, and the plays Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Wolf, Red Peppers, You Know I Can’t Hear You...., and The Perfect
Party. She is the only American to have appeared with Le Theatre de France,
where she was directed by and performed with Jean Louis Barrault at New York
City Center and toured with the company in the U.S. and Canada. She played
the voice of the French cat to Mel Blanc's skunk in the cartoon, Pepe le
Pew. Paulette Attie's Musical Playbill, 2 years on WNYC AM and FM had
distinguished songwriters joining Paulette in song. In 1979, Paulette founded
the National Musical Theater. She conceived of and wrote Encore, produced by
NMT, with Columbia Artists presenting the national tour. She’s the recipient
of 5 consecutive ASCAP Plus Songwriter Awards 2000 – 2004 and the National
Poetry Award, 1998. Paulette became the first woman performer elected into
the Friars Club in 1988. She was the singer for Israel’s 50th Anniversary in
Washington D.C. With numerous articles about show business to her credit,
Paulette just completed writing her first book, The Seven Keys to Live a
Masterful Life.