Josette Day
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1914-07-31
Day of Death
1978-06-27 (63 years old)
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.
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Known For
Acting
(2018)
The Image Book
as (archive footage)
(1970)
Pour le cinema: Le peau d'ane
as Self (Archive Footage)
(1952)
Love, Madame
as Self
(1949)
Swiss Tour
as Suzanne
(1948)
The Storm Within
as Madeleine
(1948)
Stolen Affections
as Françoise Darbel
(1946)
Beauty and the Beast
as Belle
(1943)
Arlette et l'Amour
as Arlette Milloix
(1942)
La Croisée des chemins
as Laurence Chassal
(1941)
La Prière aux étoiles
as Florence Richaud
(1940)
The Well-Digger's Daughter
as Patricia Amoretti
(1939)
The Five Cents of Lavarede
as Miss Aurett Murlington
(1939)
(1938)
Bargekeepers Daughter
as Marianne Honorat
(1938)
Final Accord
as Suzanne Fabre
(1938)
Le Patriote
as Nadia
(1937)
(1937)
The Man of the Day
as Suzanne Petit
(1937)
Sisters-in-Arms
as Léonie Vanhoutte
(1936)
(1936)
Club de femmes
as Juliette
(1936)
The Bureaucrats
as Mrs. Chavarax
(1936)
Daddy's Girl
as Colette de la Bretière
(1936)
Ménilmontant
as Julie
(1936)
(1935)
Aux portes de Paris
as Marthe
(1935)
Lucrezia Borgia
as Sancia, Lucrezia's companion
(1935)
La Sonnette d'alarme
as Geneviève
(1935)
(1935)
Antonia
as Piri
(1934)
Coralie and Company
as Lulu
(1934)
(1934)
Mam'zelle Spahi
as Nicole
(1934)
(1934)
The Daughters of the Concierge
as Suzanne Leclerc
(1934)
C'était un musicien
as Lili Vandernyff
(1934)
N'aimer que toi
as Denise
(1933)
The Merry Monarch
as Princess Aline
(1933)
(1933)
(1933)
The Barber of Seville
as Suzanne
(1932)
(1932)
Here's Berlin
as Lily
(1932)
Just Leon
as La secrétaire d'Oeil-de-Lynx
(1932)
(1931)