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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Josette Day, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Beauty and the Beast

The Image Book

The Well-Digger's Daughter

Lucrezia Borgia

Antonia

Mam'zelle Spahi

Bargekeepers Daughter

Final Accord

All Movies (49)

• The Image Book2018 · as (archive footage)
• Peau d'Âne1970 · as Self (Archive Footage)
• Love, Madame1952 · as Self
• Swiss Tour1949 · as Suzanne
• The Storm Within1948 · as Madeleine
• Stolen Affections1948 · as Françoise Darbel
• Beauty and the Beast1946 · as Belle
• Arlette et l'Amour1943 · as Arlette Milloix
• La Croisée des chemins1942 · as Laurence Chassal
• La Prière aux étoiles1941 · as Florence Richaud
• La Prière aux étoiles (80min cut)1941 · as Florence Richaud
• La Prière aux étoiles (film inachevé)1941 · as Florence
• The Well-Digger's Daughter1940 · as Patricia Amoretti
• Monsieur Brotonneau1939
• The Five Cents of Lavarede1939 · as Miss Aurett Murlington
• Final Accord1938 · as Suzanne Fabre
• Bargekeepers Daughter1938 · as Marianne Honorat
• The Patriot1938 · as Nadia
• Monsieur Bégonia1937
• Sisters-in-Arms1937 · as Léonie Vanhoutte
• The Man of the Day1937 · as Suzanne Petit
• The Bureaucrats1936 · as Mrs. Chavarax
• Ménilmontant1936 · as Julie
• Club de femmes1936 · as Juliette
• Jeunesse d'abord1936
• The Flame1936 · as Hélène de Luyze
• Daddy's Girl1936 · as Colette de la Bretière
• Lucrezia Borgia1935 · as Sancia, Lucrezia's companion
• La Sonnette d'alarme1935 · as Geneviève
• Aux portes de Paris1935 · as Marthe
• Bibi-la-Purée1935
• Antonia1935 · as Piri
• Mam'zelle Spahi1934 · as Nicole
• N'aimer que toi1934 · as Denise
• L'Aristo1934
• Coralie and Company1934 · as Lulu
• The Daughters of the Concierge1934 · as Suzanne Leclerc
• Le Couché de la mariée1934
• C'était un musicien1934 · as Lili Vandernyff
• The Barber of Seville1933 · as Suzanne
• The Merry Monarch1933 · as Princess Aline
• Colomba1933
• The Adventures of King Pausole1933 · as Prinzessin Aline
• Miss Helyett1933
• Just Leon1932 · as La secrétaire d'Oeil-de-Lynx
• The Regiment's Champion1932
• Here's Berlin1932 · as Lily
• Un bouquet de flirts1932
• Oaths1931