Josette Day

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1914-07-31 (64 years old)

Deathday

1978-06-27

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Josette Day

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Josette Day (July 31, 1914 - June 27, 1978) was a French film actress. Born in Paris, she began her career as an actress in 1919 at the age of five. Day was married in 1941 to famous French studio head Marcel Pagnol, who she met in January 1939. In 1946, she played her best-known role, alongside Jean Marais, as Belle in director Jean Cocteau's famous take on the classic French fairytale Beauty and the Beast. Despite playing numerous parts in famous French films, Day ended her career as an actress in 1950 when she was only 36 years old. Description above from the Wikipedia article Josette Day, license...

Acting

1935

1948

The Storm Within

as Madeleine

1934

1934

1933

1935

Lucrezia Borgia

as Sancia, Lucrezia's companion

1936

Daddy's Girl

as Colette de la Bretière

1938

Le Patriote

as Nadia

1938

Bargekeepers Daughter

as Marianne Honorat

1942

La Croisée des chemins

as Laurence Chassal

1943

Arlette et l'Amour

as Arlette Milloix

2018

The Image Book

as (archive footage)

1940

The Well-Digger's Daughter

as Patricia Amoretti

1939

The Five Cents of Lavarede

as Miss Aurett Murlington

1931

1933

The Merry Monarch

as Princess Aline

1936

The Bureaucrats

as Mrs. Chavarax

1936

1952

1937

Sisters-in-Arms

as Léonie Vanhoutte

1949

Swiss Tour

as Suzanne

1938

Final Accord

as Suzanne Fabre

1935

1932

1936

Club de femmes

as Juliette

1932

Just Leon

as La secrétaire d'Oeil-de-Lynx

1948

Stolen Affections

as Françoise Darbel

1935

Antonia

as Piri

1934

1937

The Man of the Day

as Suzanne Petit

1934

C'était un musicien

as Lili Vandernyff

1941

La Prière aux étoiles

as Florence Richaud

1970

Pour le cinema: Le peau d'ane

as Self (Archive Footage)

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