- On April 28, 1958, he was one of the seven composers invited to the TV show Les grandes familles de Trente-Six Chandelles : la chanson (1958) hosted by Jean Nohain which was devoted to the successes of the Chanson Française between 1945 and 1955. The composers have played the melody of their favorite song on the piano : Henri Betti for "C'est si Bon" (1947), Louiguy for "La Vie en Rose" (1946), Paul Durand for "Boléro" (1948), Joseph Kosma for "Les Feuilles Mortes" (1946), Louis Ferrari for "Domino" (1949), Paul Misraki for "Tu n'peux pas t'Figurer" (1950) and André Popp for "Les Lavandières du Portugal" (1954).
- Kosma composed the music for the first songs that the young singer Juliette Greco performed in 1948 in Paris, before she eventually became a movie performer and went to Hollywood.
- While French Cinematheque curator Henri Langlois had shown silent films to his audiences during the first decade of his theatre without musical accompaniment, beginning in 1945 he would present silents with live piano performed by Kosma, whom the film director Jean Renoir introduced him to.
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