Josette Day
Born
July 31, 1914
Died
June 27, 1978 (63 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Paris, France
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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.
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Known For
The Image Book
(archive footage)
2018
Pour le cinema: Le peau d'ane
Self (Archive Footage)
1970
Love, Madame
Self
1952
Swiss Tour
Suzanne
1949
The Storm Within
Madeleine
1948
Stolen Affections
Françoise Darbel
1948
Beauty and the Beast
Belle
1946
Arlette et l'Amour
Arlette Milloix
1943
La Croisée des chemins
Laurence Chassal
1942
La Prière aux étoiles
Florence Richaud
1941
The Well-Digger's Daughter
Patricia Amoretti
1940
Monsieur Brotonneau
1939
The Five Cents of Lavarede
Miss Aurett Murlington
1939
Final Accord
Suzanne Fabre
1938
Bargekeepers Daughter
Marianne Honorat
1938
Le Patriote
Nadia
1938
Monsieur Bégonia
1937
Sisters-in-Arms
Léonie Vanhoutte
1937
The Man of the Day
Suzanne Petit
1937
The Bureaucrats
Mrs. Chavarax
1936
Ménilmontant
Julie
1936
Club de femmes
Juliette
1936
Jeunesse d'abord
1936
The Flame
1936
Daddy's Girl
Colette de la Bretière
1936
Lucrezia Borgia
Sancia, Lucrezia's companion
1935
La Sonnette d'alarme
Geneviève
1935
Aux portes de Paris
Marthe
1935
Bibi-la-Purée
1935
Antonia
Piri
1935
Mam'zelle Spahi
Nicole
1934
N'aimer que toi
Denise
1934
L'Aristo
1934
Coralie and Company
Lulu
1934
The Daughters of the Concierge
Suzanne Leclerc
1934
Le couché de la mariée
1934
C'était un musicien
Lili Vandernyff
1934
The Barber of Seville
Suzanne
1933
The Merry Monarch
Princess Aline
1933
Colomba
1933
Miss Helyett
1933
Just Leon
La secrétaire d'Oeil-de-Lynx
1932
The Regiment's Champion
1932
Here's Berlin
Lily
1932
Un bouquet de flirts
1932
Oaths
1931