Josette Day

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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

46

Gender

Female

Birthday

1914-07-31

Deathday

1978-06-27 (63 years old)

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Also Known As

  • Josette Noële Andrée Claire Dagory

Josette Day

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

Beauty and the Beast
7.5%

Beauty and the Beast

Oct 29, 1946

The Image Book
6.4%

The Image Book

Oct 11, 2018

The Storm Within
6.5%

The Storm Within

Dec 1, 1948

Club de femmes
6.6%

Club de femmes

Jun 20, 1936

Lucrezia Borgia
5.5%

Lucrezia Borgia

Dec 20, 1935

Sisters-in-Arms
4.5%

Sisters-in-Arms

Dec 2, 1937

Just Leon
9.9%

Just Leon

Sep 30, 1932

The Bureaucrats
5.8%

The Bureaucrats

Dec 15, 1936

Love, Madame
2.5%

Love, Madame

Jan 23, 1952

The Man of the Day
5.0%

The Man of the Day

Jan 2, 1937

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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
1948
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
1940
The Well-Digger's Daughter as Patricia Amoretti
1939
Monsieur Brotonneau
1939
The Five Cents of Lavarede as Miss Aurett Murlington
1938
Final Accord as Suzanne
1938
Bargekeepers Daughter as Marianne Honorat
1938
Le Patriote as Nadia
1937
Monsieur Bégonia
1937
Sisters-in-Arms as Léonie Vanhoutte
1937
The Man of the Day as Suzanne Petit
1936
The Bureaucrats as Mme Chavarax
1936
Ménilmontant as Julie
1936
Club de femmes as Juliette
1936
Jeunesse d'abord
1936
The Flame
1936
Daddy's Girl
1935
Lucrezia Borgia as Sancia, Lucrezia's companion
1935
La Sonnette d'alarme
1935
Aux portes de Paris as Marthe
1935
Bibi-la-Purée
1935
Antonia as Piri
1934
Mam'zelle Spahi as Nicole
1934
N'aimer que toi as Denise
1934
L'Aristo
1934
Coralie and Company as Lulu
1934
The Daughters of the Concierge as Suzanne Leclerc
1934
Le couché de la mariée
1934
C'était un musicien as Lili Vandernyff
1933
The Barber of Seville as Suzanne
1933
The Merry Monarch as Princess Aline
1933
Colomba
1933
Miss Helyett
1932
Just Leon as La secrétaire d'Oeil-de-Lynx
1932
The Regiment's Champion
1932
Here's Berlin as Lily
1932
Un bouquet de flirts
1931
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