- 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.
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