in the 1980s, she starred in a tv show "telle est line" for antenne 2 and recorded songs in english and french. at casino de paris, she put on a one off show which retraced her forty-year career. also, in 1981, she served as an unofficial on-air "guide" for merv griffin when he taped "the merv griffin show" in paris, and in 1982 she was a guest on perry como's christmas special in paris. in 1989, she toured around japan as part of a festival which marked the bicentennial of the french revolution.