Josette Day
Birthday
1914/07/31
Day of death
1978/06/27 (63 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also know as
Josette Noële Andrée Claire Dagory
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 Frenc...Read more
Acting
(1946) Beauty and the Beast
as Belle
(1933) Miss Helyett
as ---
(1935) Aux portes de Paris
as Marthe
(1948) The Storm Within
as Madeleine
(1932) Un bouquet de flirts
as ---
(1932) The Regiment's Champion
as ---
(1933) Colomba
as ---
(1934) The Daughters of the Concierge
as Suzanne Leclerc
(1934) Coralie and Company
as Lulu
(1934) N'aimer que toi
as Denise
(1933) The Barber of Seville
as Suzanne
(1935) Bibi-la-Purée
as ---
(1935) Lucrezia Borgia
as Sancia, Lucrezia's companion
(1936) Jeunesse d'abord
as ---
(1936) Daddy's Girl
as ---
(1936) The Flame
as ---
(1937) Monsieur Bégonia
as ---
(1938) Le Patriote
as ---
(1938) Bargekeepers Daughter
as Marianne Honorat
(1942) La Croisée des chemins
as ---
(1939) Monsieur Brotonneau
as ---
(1943) Arlette et l'Amour
as Arlette Milloix
(2018) The Image Book
as (archive footage)
(1940) The Well-Digger's Daughter
as Patricia Amoretti
(1939) The Five Cents of Lavarede
as Miss Aurett Murlington
(1931) Oaths
as ---
(1933) The Merry Monarch
as Princess Aline
(1936) The Bureaucrats
as Mme Chavarax
(1936) Ménilmontant
as Julie
(1952) Love, Madame
as Herself
(1934) L'Aristo
as ---
(1937) Sisters-in-Arms
as Léonie Vanhoutte
(1949) Swiss Tour
as Suzanne
(1938) Final Accord
as Suzanne
(1935) La Sonnette d'alarme
as ---
(1932) Here's Berlin
as Lily
(1936) Club de femmes
as Juliette
(1932) Just Leon
as La secrétaire d'Oeil-de-Lynx
(1948) Stolen Affections
as Françoise Darbel
(1935) Antonia
as Piri
(1934) Le couché de la mariée
as ---
(1934) Mam'zelle Spahi
as Nicole
(1937) The Man of the Day
as Suzanne Petit
(1934) C'était un musicien
as Lili Vandernyff
(1941) La Prière aux étoiles
as Florence Richaud
(1970) Pour le cinema: Le peau d'ane
as Self (Archive Footage)