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Josette Day

Josette Day

Born: 1914-07-31 • 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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Filmography
The Image Book poster
The Image Book
2018 • (archive footage)
Pour le cinema: Le peau d'ane poster
Pour le cinema: Le peau d'ane
1970 • Self (Archive Footage)
Love, Madame poster
Love, Madame
1952 • Self
Swiss Tour poster
Swiss Tour
1949 • Suzanne
The Storm Within poster
The Storm Within
1948 • Madeleine
Stolen Affections poster
Stolen Affections
1948 • Françoise Darbel
Beauty and the Beast poster
Beauty and the Beast
1946 • Belle
Arlette et l'Amour poster
Arlette et l'Amour
1943 • Arlette Milloix
La Croisée des chemins poster
La Croisée des chemins
1942 • Laurence Chassal
La Prière aux étoiles poster
La Prière aux étoiles
1941 • Florence Richaud
La Prière aux étoiles (80min cut) poster
La Prière aux étoiles (80min cut)
1941 • Florence Richaud
La Prière aux étoiles (film inachevé) poster
La Prière aux étoiles (film inachevé)
1941 • Florence
The Well-Digger's Daughter poster
The Well-Digger's Daughter
1940 • Patricia Amoretti
Monsieur Brotonneau poster
Monsieur Brotonneau
1939
The Five Cents of Lavarede poster
The Five Cents of Lavarede
1939 • Miss Aurett Murlington
Final Accord poster
Final Accord
1938 • Suzanne Fabre
Bargekeepers Daughter poster
Bargekeepers Daughter
1938 • Marianne Honorat
The Patriot poster
The Patriot
1938 • Nadia
Monsieur Bégonia poster
Monsieur Bégonia
1937
Sisters-in-Arms poster
Sisters-in-Arms
1937 • Léonie Vanhoutte
The Man of the Day poster
The Man of the Day
1937 • Suzanne Petit
The Bureaucrats poster
The Bureaucrats
1936 • Mrs. Chavarax
Ménilmontant poster
Ménilmontant
1936 • Julie
Club de femmes poster
Club de femmes
1936 • Juliette
Jeunesse d'abord poster
Jeunesse d'abord
1936
The Flame poster
The Flame
1936 • Hélène de Luyze
Daddy's Girl poster
Daddy's Girl
1936 • Colette de la Bretière
Lucrezia Borgia poster
Lucrezia Borgia
1935 • Sancia, Lucrezia's companion
La Sonnette d'alarme poster
La Sonnette d'alarme
1935 • Geneviève
Aux portes de Paris poster
Aux portes de Paris
1935 • Marthe
No Image
Bibi-la-Purée
1935
Antonia poster
Antonia
1935 • Piri
Mam'zelle Spahi poster
Mam'zelle Spahi
1934 • Nicole
No Image
N'aimer que toi
1934 • Denise
No Image
L'Aristo
1934
Coralie and Company poster
Coralie and Company
1934 • Lulu
The Daughters of the Concierge poster
The Daughters of the Concierge
1934 • Suzanne Leclerc
Le Couché de la mariée poster
Le Couché de la mariée
1934
No Image
C'était un musicien
1934 • Lili Vandernyff
The Barber of Seville poster
The Barber of Seville
1933 • Suzanne
The Merry Monarch poster
The Merry Monarch
1933 • Princess Aline
Colomba poster
Colomba
1933
No Image
König Pausole
1933 • Prinzessin Aline
No Image
Miss Helyett
1933
Just Leon poster
Just Leon
1932 • La secrétaire d'Oeil-de-Lynx
The Regiment's Champion poster
The Regiment's Champion
1932
Here's Berlin poster
Here's Berlin
1932 • Lily
Un bouquet de flirts poster
Un bouquet de flirts
1932
Oaths poster
Oaths
1931