Trivia

Has had a long, enduring professional and private relationship with dancer/choreographer Roland Petit who created Les Ballet des Champs Elysees, and who choreographed all of her Hollywood musicals. They first met each other when both were 9 years old and students at the Paris Opera Ballet school.

"You talk like Marlene Dietrich/ You dance like Zizi Jeanmaire" is a line in Peter Sarstedt's 1969 hit song "Where Do You Go To (My lovely)?".

Energetic, passionate French ballerina from Les Ballet des Champs Elysees whose phenomenal success in Carmen led to a brief Hollywood career in the 50s.

Zizi Jeanmaire and her husband Roland Petit have a daughter, Valentine, born in 1955.

In her 60s, she toured with a rock band in "Zizi au Zenith."

Buried at Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France. Plot Division 13.