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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1914-07-31 (110 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
Stolen Affections as Françoise Darbel

1946

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

1938

Le Patriote as Nadia
Bargekeepers Daughter as Marianne Honorat
Final Accord as Suzanne

1937

Sisters-in-Arms as Léonie Vanhoutte
The Man of the Day as Suzanne Petit

1936

1935

Lucrezia Borgia as Sancia, Lucrezia's companion
Antonia as Piri

1934

1933

1932

1931