Josette Day
Acting1914Paris, France
Biography
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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
Acting History
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
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
La Prière aux étoiles (80min cut)
as Florence Richaud
La Prière aux étoiles (film inachevé)
as Florence
1940
The Well-Digger's Daughter
as Patricia Amoretti
1939
The Five Cents of Lavarede
as Miss Aurett Murlington
1938
1937
1936
The Bureaucrats
as Mrs. Chavarax
The Flame
as Hélène de Luyze
Club de femmes
as Juliette
Ménilmontant
as Julie
Daddy's Girl
as Colette de la Bretière
1935
Lucrezia Borgia
as Sancia, Lucrezia's companion
La Sonnette d'alarme
as Geneviève
Aux portes de Paris
as Marthe
Antonia
as Piri
1934
C'était un musicien
as Lili Vandernyff
The Daughters of the Concierge
as Suzanne Leclerc
Mam'zelle Spahi
as Nicole
N'aimer que toi
as Denise
Coralie and Company
as Lulu
1933
1932
Here's Berlin
as Lily
Just Leon
as La secrétaire d'Oeil-de-Lynx
1931