Josette Day
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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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.824 |
| Birthday | 1914-07-31 |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Also Known As | Josette Noële Andrée Claire Dagory, |
1946
Beauty and the Beast
7.5/574
The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests...
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Beauty and the Beast
1948
The Storm Within
6.3/23
Young Michel is in love with the attractive Madeleine, so he decides to tell his parents of his intention to marry her. He thinks his announcement is...
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The Storm Within
1940
The Well-Digger's Daughter
6.9/32
A rural maiden's two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant.
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The Well-Digger's Daughter
1939
The Five Cents of Lavarede
5.3/3
Some try to travel around the world with a time constraint, but Lavarède has to perform an even harder task than Phineas Fogg. His assignment is to go...
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The Five Cents of Lavarede
1933
The Merry Monarch
0/0
Good King Pausole selects a wife for every day in the year, but one protests when he spends her day searching for young Princess Aline who has eloped...
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The Merry Monarch
1936
The Bureaucrats
5.75/2
A comedy about the petty bureaucrats who need special leather props under their posteriors because of the long hours they spend sitting at their desks...
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The Bureaucrats
1936
Ménilmontant
0/0
Because they brought her back a lost piece of jewelry, a very rich lady accedes to the request of three old people and transforms a vacant lot into a...
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Ménilmontant
1952
Love, Madame
2.5/2
Madame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but François has other plans.
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Love, Madame
1934
L'Aristo
0/0
Nicknamed "the Aristo", a friendly tramp, once a very rich and influential man, will one fine day rediscover the splendor of his past...
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L'Aristo
1937
Sisters-in-Arms
4.5/4
During the war from '14-'18, two women travel by foot in the North of France and Belgium to aid an organization to provide information to the English
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Sisters-in-Arms
1949
Swiss Tour
0/0
A sailor on leave meets a beautiful girl on the ski slopes of Switzerland.
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Swiss Tour
1938
Final Accord
9/1
A famous violinist enlists in a music school in order to woo one of the students.
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Final Accord
1935
La Sonnette d'alarme
0/0
Middle-aged Parisian Bobby, following an attack of gout, is forced to give up his previous merry life. Above all this Bobby falls in love with his nie...
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La Sonnette d'alarme
1932
Here's Berlin
9/1
Story of a rendezvous in Paris which is prepared through telephone calls between a Berlin telephonist and his female colleague in Paris.
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Here's Berlin
1936
Girls' Club
6.6/14
A hotel for women-only and catering to working girls is the setting for not being able to get a USA PCA seal-of-approval for this French-film, but New...
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Girls' Club
1932
Just Leon
9.9/4
Léon is hired by a detective agency to monitor a music hall star whose friend is extremely jealous.
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Just Leon
1948
Stolen Affections
6/1
The ordeal of Françoise who, deceived by her husband, sees her dying child. After a few events in the backdrop of a festival, the husband returns, she...
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Stolen Affections
1935
Antonia
0/0
The famous singer Antonia left the stage to marry a country gentleman. She goes alone one day to Budapest to see again the operetta which revealed her...
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Antonia
1934
Le couché de la mariée
0/0
Claude loves Gisèle, Raymonde loves Édouard, but a double misunderstand leads to the marriage of Claude and Raymonde. Obviously, they vow not to consu...
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Le couché de la mariée
1937
The Man of the Day
5/2
Alfred Boulard, a good-natured electrician, gives his blood to save Mona Thalia, a great theater actress. Mona Thalia survives and Boulard becomes the...
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The Man of the Day
1934
Mam'zelle Spahi
0/0
Two mistresses snubbed by their respective lovers crash a military ball and their lovers then resort to an unusual strategy to win them back.
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Mam'zelle Spahi
1934
C'était un musicien
0/0
When he is not conducting his orchestra, a talented young man invents a device to thwart car thieves.Associating himself with a rich Dutch baron, he f...
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C'était un musicien
1941
La Prière aux étoiles
0/0
Pierre and Florence meet at the fair in Paris. They vow eternal love and go to Cassis, under the Southern sun. But Florence has a burdensome past: bef...
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La Prière aux étoiles
1933
Miss Helyett
0/0
The daughter of the austere professor Smithson, during a walk on skis, loses her balance, revealing her underwear. An indiscreet photographed the scen...
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Miss Helyett
1935
Aux portes de Paris
0/0
A local man raised two boys. One is his son and the other is that of a rich industrialist, to get the bonus to the unhappy father, he gives his own so...
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Aux portes de Paris
1932
Un bouquet de flirts
0/0
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Un bouquet de flirts
1932
The Regiment's Champion
0/0
Father Sourire, who came to the Château de Villetaneuse to ask for alms, was forced to put on the uniform of the nephew who had fled from the barracks...
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The Regiment's Champion
1933
Colomba
0/0
A young officer of Napoleon's armies returns to Corsica where his sister is waiting for him to avenge the death of their father.
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Colomba
1934
The Daughters of the Concierge
0/0
Madame Leclerc, concierge of a beautiful place on Montmartre, has three daughters who are ready to get married - but things do not always go as planne...
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The Daughters of the Concierge
1934
Coralie and Company
0/0
A young couple goes through a plot unscathed in the welcoming salons of a large fashion house.
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Coralie and Company
1934
N'aimer que toi
0/0
A great singer eager to know the love of a sincere woman, in love with him and not with his glory, disguises himself as a worker. He meets the girl of...
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N'aimer que toi
1933
The Barber of Seville
0/0
Based on an opera by Rossini and an opera by Mozart, taken from the work of Beaumarchais.
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The Barber of Seville
1935
Bibi-la-Purée
0/0
Through the fault of the Leech, Bibi la Puree and her friend Bob find themselves involved in a crime. The judge in charge of the investigation discove...
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Bibi-la-Purée
1935
Lucrezia Borgia
5.2/5
French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one o...
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Lucrezia Borgia
1936
Jeunesse d'abord
0/0
Two different young couples marry, despite the wishes to the contrary of their parents.
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Jeunesse d'abord
1936
Daddy's Girl
2/1
After winning the lottery, an orphan who wants to find a husband asks a hotel porter to be her father.
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Daddy's Girl
1936
The Flame
0/0
A woman of easy virtue rejects a proposal of marriage made to her by a rich lover. But when her son is taken from her to be brought up in the best con...
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The Flame
1937
Monsieur Bégonia
0/0
A young man who applies for the position of general manager in a fashion house has not reached the desired age. Thanks to a skilful make-up, he gives...
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Monsieur Bégonia
1938
Le Patriote
0/0
The reign of Tsar Paul I and the intrigues of his friend, Governor Pahlen, to rid the country of the mad despot by plotting to have him murdered.
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Le Patriote
1938
Bargekeepers Daughter
9/1
Prince Sacha studies in Paris and cares more for Marianne than about Silistrie, the country his family was exiled from. But Chautard, a French financi...
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Bargekeepers Daughter
1939
Monsieur Brotonneau
0/0
A man leaves his adulterous wife for his secretary, but then the wife apologizes and wants her husband back again.
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Monsieur Brotonneau
1942
La Croisée des chemins
0/0
A prestigious Paris doctor is tempted by a woman he knew in his youth, whose politician husband has neglected her.But will he in turn neglect his duti...
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La Croisée des chemins
1943
Arlette et l'Amour
6/1
Madame Millois, an ambitious mother, thinks she has found the perfect match for her daughter Arlette, Count de Tremblay-Matour. Alas, the ideal husban...
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Arlette et l'Amour
1931
Oaths
0/0
In the eighteenth century, during a revolution in Karelia, an aristocrat, Armas de Murnau, fought alongside the revolutionaries. Captured, sentenced t...
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Oaths
2018
The Image Book
6.4/73
In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books...
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