Josette Day
Known for ActingBorn 1914-07-31 — died 1978-06-27Paris, France
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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
1946 · as Belle
The Image Book
2018 · as (archive footage)
Lucrezia Borgia
1935 · as Sancia, Lucrezia's companion
Love, Madame
1952 · as Self
Ménilmontant
1936 · as Julie
The Well-Digger's Daughter
1940 · as Patricia Amoretti
The Adventures of King Pausole
1933 · as Prinzessin Aline
Oaths
1931
Swiss Tour
1949 · as Suzanne
La Prière aux étoiles (film inachevé)
1941 · as Florence
Bargekeepers Daughter
1938 · as Marianne Honorat
Sisters-in-Arms
1937 · as Léonie Vanhoutte
The Five Cents of Lavarede
1939 · as Miss Aurett Murlington
Final Accord
1938 · as Suzanne Fabre
Peau d'Âne
1970 · as Self (Archive Footage)
The Bureaucrats
1936 · as Mrs. Chavarax
The Merry Monarch
1933 · as Princess Aline
Club de femmes
1936 · as Juliette