Odette Joyeux

Born: 1914-12-05

Odette Joyeux (5 December 1914 – 26 August 2000) was a French actress, playwright and novelist. She was born in Paris, where she studied dance at the Paris Opera Ballet before taking the stage. Joyeux started her film career in 1931. Her first notable film was Marc Allégret's Entrée des artistes (1938). During the 1940s she established herself as one of France's most popular cinema actresses; however, she made few film appearances after the 1950s. Joyeux is the author of some plays and essays on dance as well as a book on the life of inventor Nicéphore Niépce. She also wrote two novels aimed to inspire dance: L'Âge heureux (which was adapted to a television series) and Côté jardin. Additionally, Joyeux wrote The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful (1956) (adapted to film). She married actor Pierre Brasseur from 1935 until their divorce in 1945, by whom she had one child, Claude Brasseur, who is the father of Alexandre Brasseur. In 1958 she married director Philippe Agostini. They remained married until her death in Grimaud, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France from stroke at age 85. Source: Article "Odette Joyeux" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.


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La Ronde

as Anna, la grisette
Released: 1950-09-27

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier...

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If Paris Were Told to Us

as La Passementière
Released: 1956-01-27

Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its...

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Sylvia and the Ghost

as Sylvie
Released: 1946-02-06

A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her...

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Scandal

as Cécilia
Released: 1948-12-01

A young woman who inherits her uncle's nightclub, invents a gangster husband in order to gain...

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The Little Ones of the Flower Platform

as Rosine Grimaud
Released: 1944-05-26

A brave bookseller raises his four daughters alone, all of whom he employs in his shop. They are...

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The Phantom Baron

as Elfy
Released: 1943-06-16

Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié's daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old...

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Love Letters

as Zélie Fontaine
Released: 1942-12-23

A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official,...

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The Marriage of Chiffon

as Corysande 'Chiffon'
Released: 1942-08-06

Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply...

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The Curtain Rises

as Cécilia Prieur
Released: 1938-10-06

1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur...

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Ladies Lake

as Carla Lyssenhop
Released: 1934-05-18

A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque...

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Driving Lesson

as Micheline
Released: 1946-05-29

Micheline is a pretty girl but rich, spoiled and whimsical as well. Jacques, the brother of her...

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Douce

as Douce
Released: 1943-11-09

In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager...

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Check on the King

as Jeannette de Pincret
Released: 1945-05-15

Jeanne De Pincret refuses to marry Viscount Haussy De Villefort, having discovered his...

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Hélène

as Françoise
Released: 1936-10-17

Helene is based on Helene Wilfur, a novel by Vicki (Grand Hotel) Baum. Madeleine Renaud essays...

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L'Âge heureux

as Thérèse Nadal
Released: 1966-02-11

The young heroines are the "Petits Rats de l'Opéra" =pupil of the opera of Paris ballet class...

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Trois artilleurs au pensionnat

as Micheline
Released: 1937-03-12

Three happy reservists are doing a military period. One evening out and about, thinking they...

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Une femme qui se partage

as uncredited
Released: 1937-02-19

Louis Cruciol, a married man, leads a double life: he maintains his mistress by taking the...

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Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances

as Self
Released: 1954-04-15

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The Four-Poster Bed

as Marie-Doree
Released: 1942-07-09

In his prison cell, the composer Remi Bonvent composed an opera, The columns bed. The director...

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Grisou

as Madeleine
Released: 1938-05-11

Femme fatale Madeleine Robinson is married to Raymond Aimos, a coal miner with a face like a...

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Le chant de l'amour

as uncredited
Released: 1935-07-04

A poor woman forced to sew in a brothel for a living, a museum guard whose daughters party, an...

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Youth in Revolt

as Zizi
Released: 1938-07-21

"Altitude 3.200" asks the question and provides the premise of what would happen if a group of...

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Passionnelle

as Thérèse de Marsannes
Released: 1947-05-14

Thérèse kills her lover during the very night of her wedding to the count of Vétheul. To gain a...

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La Glu

as Naïk
Released: 1938-04-27

A young Breton sailor falls in love with a visiting stranger called 'La Glu'. He drops his...

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Où sont-elles donc ?

as Self
Released: 1983-01-01

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Messieurs Ludovic

as Anne-Marie Vermeulen
Released: 1946-05-03

Anne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different...

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Notre-Dame de la Mouise

as uncredited
Released: 1941-04-11

Father Vincent is trying to build a church in the California neighborhood. Greeted by stones, he...

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Jean of the Moon

as uncredited
Released: 1931-02-27

Marceline, the young wife of the florist Jean, can't help flirting with other men, but her...

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La bonne peinture

as uncredited
Released: 1967-11-24

A light philosophical movie about a painter who has the ability to produce paintings that can...

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Last Hour, Special Edition

as Andrée Coche
Released: 1949-09-30

A journalist who deals with the column "courier du cœur" has the absurd idea of ​​launching an...

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Summer Storm

as Marie-Blanche
Released: 1949-12-22

An attractive Englishman who is spending his holidays in France, breaks into a French family.

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Champs-Elysées

as Self
First aired: 1982-01-16

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Le Grand Échiquier

as Self
First aired: 1972-01-12

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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

as Self
First aired: 1975-01-12

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

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