Josette Day
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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Filmography (49 Appearances)
The Image Book
Pour le cinema: Le peau d'ane
Love, Madame
Swiss Tour
The Storm Within
Stolen Affections
Beauty and the Beast
Arlette et l'Amour
La Croisée des chemins
La Prière aux étoiles (80min cut)
La Prière aux étoiles
La Prière aux étoiles (film inachevé)
The Well-Digger's Daughter
Monsieur Brotonneau
The Five Cents of Lavarede
Final Accord
Bargekeepers Daughter
The Patriot
Monsieur Bégonia
Sisters-in-Arms
The Man of the Day
The Bureaucrats
Ménilmontant
Club de femmes
Jeunesse d'abord
The Flame
Daddy's Girl
Lucrezia Borgia
La Sonnette d'alarme
Aux portes de Paris
Bibi-la-Purée
Antonia
Mam'zelle Spahi
N'aimer que toi
L'Aristo
Coralie and Company
The Daughters of the Concierge
Le Couché de la mariée
C'était un musicien
The Barber of Seville
The Merry Monarch
Colomba
König Pausole
Miss Helyett
Just Leon
The Regiment's Champion
Here's Berlin
Un bouquet de flirts
Oaths