Josette Day
Actor
- Born
- July 31, 1914 · Paris, France
- Died
- June 27, 1978 (age 63)
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Josette Day (July 31, 1914 - June 27, 1978) was a French film actress.
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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
Beauty and the Beast
October 29, 1946
The Image Book
October 11, 2018
The Well-Digger's Daughter
December 20, 1940
The Storm Within
December 1, 1948
Club de femmes
June 20, 1936
Lucrezia Borgia
December 20, 1935
Sisters-in-Arms
December 2, 1937
Just Leon
September 30, 1932
The Five Cents of Lavarede
March 7, 1939
The Bureaucrats
December 15, 1936
Love, Madame
January 23, 1952
The Man of the Day
January 2, 1937
Acting49
- 2018The Image Book as (archive footage)
- 1970Peau d'Âne as Self (Archive Footage)
- 1952Love, Madame as Self
- 1949Swiss Tour as Suzanne
- 1948The Storm Within as Madeleine
- 1948Stolen Affections as Françoise Darbel
- 1946Beauty and the Beast as Belle
- 1943Arlette et l'Amour as Arlette Milloix
- 1942La Croisée des chemins as Laurence Chassal
- 1941La Prière aux étoiles