Josette Day
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.
Beauty and the Beast
as BelleThe story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to...
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The Image Book
as (archive footage)In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings,...
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Love, Madame
as HerselfMadame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but...
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The Storm Within
as MadeleineYoung Michel is in love with the attractive Madeleine, so he decides to tell his parents of his...
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The Well-Digger's Daughter
as Patricia AmorettiA rural maiden's two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant.
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Arlette et l'Amour
as Arlette MilloixMadame Millois, an ambitious mother, thinks she has found the perfect match for her daughter...
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Final Accord
as SuzanneA famous violinist enlists in a music school in order to woo one of the students.
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Girls' Club
as JulietteA hotel for women-only and catering to working girls is the setting for not being able to get a...
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Lucrezia Borgia
as Sancia, Lucrezia's companionFrench silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her...
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The Regiment's Champion
as uncreditedFather Sourire, who came to the Château de Villetaneuse to ask for alms, was forced to put on...
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Sisters-in-Arms
as Léonie VanhoutteDuring the war from '14-'18, two women travel by foot in the North of France and Belgium to aid...
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Stolen Affections
as Françoise DarbelThe ordeal of Françoise who, deceived by her husband, sees her dying child. After a few events...
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Swiss Tour
as SuzanneA sailor on leave meets a beautiful girl on the ski slopes of Switzerland.
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The Bureaucrats
as Mme ChavaraxA comedy about the petty bureaucrats who need special leather props under their posteriors...
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The Man of the Day
as Suzanne PetitAlfred Boulard, a good-natured electrician, gives his blood to save Mona Thalia, a great theater...
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Just Leon
as La secrétaire d'Oeil-de-LynxLéon is hired by a detective agency to monitor a music hall star whose friend is extremely jealous.
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The Five Cents of Lavarede
as Miss Aurett MurlingtonSome try to travel around the world with a time constraint, but Lavarède has to perform an even...
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Jeunesse d'abord
as uncreditedTwo different young couples marry, despite the wishes to the contrary of their parents.
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Antonia
as PiriThe famous singer Antonia left the stage to marry a country gentleman. She goes alone one day to...
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The Flame
as uncreditedA woman of easy virtue rejects a proposal of marriage made to her by a rich lover. But when her...
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Le Patriote
as uncreditedThe reign of Tsar Paul I and the intrigues of his friend, Governor Pahlen, to rid the country of...
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Oaths
as uncreditedIn the eighteenth century, during a revolution in Karelia, an aristocrat, Armas de Murnau,...
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Daddy's Girl
as uncreditedAfter winning the lottery, an orphan who wants to find a husband asks a hotel porter to be her...
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Here's Berlin
as LilyStory of a rendezvous in Paris which is prepared through telephone calls between a Berlin...
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Le couché de la mariée
as uncreditedClaude loves Gisèle, Raymonde loves Édouard, but a double misunderstand leads to the marriage of...
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La Croisée des chemins
as uncreditedA prestigious Paris doctor is tempted by a woman he knew in his youth, whose politician husband...
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Aux portes de Paris
as MartheA local man raised two boys. One is his son and the other is that of a rich industrialist, to...
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The Daughters of the Concierge
as Suzanne LeclercMadame Leclerc, concierge of a beautiful place on Montmartre, has three daughters who are ready...
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La Prière aux étoiles
as Florence RichaudPierre and Florence meet at the fair in Paris. They vow eternal love and go to Cassis, under the...
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Bargekeepers Daughter
as Marianne HonoratPrince Sacha studies in Paris and cares more for Marianne than about Silistrie, the country his...
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The Merry Monarch
as Princess AlineGood King Pausole selects a wife for every day in the year, but one protests when he spends her...
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Mam'zelle Spahi
as NicoleTwo mistresses snubbed by their respective lovers crash a military ball and their lovers then...
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The Barber of Seville
as SuzanneBased on an opera by Rossini and an opera by Mozart, taken from the work of Beaumarchais.
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La Sonnette d'alarme
as uncreditedMiddle-aged Parisian Bobby, following an attack of gout, is forced to give up his previous merry...
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Monsieur Bégonia
as uncreditedA young man who applies for the position of general manager in a fashion house has not reached...
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Monsieur Brotonneau
as uncreditedA man leaves his adulterous wife for his secretary, but then the wife apologizes and wants her...
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Ménilmontant
as JulieBecause they brought her back a lost piece of jewelry, a very rich lady accedes to the request...
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Colomba
as uncreditedA young officer of Napoleon's armies returns to Corsica where his sister is waiting for him to...
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