Odette Joyeux
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.
La Ronde
as Anna, la grisetteAn all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier...
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Sylvia and the Ghost
as SylvieA teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her...
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The Curtain Rises
as Cécilia Prieur1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur...
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If Paris Were Told to Us
as La PassementièreHistorical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its...
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The Marriage of Chiffon
as Corysande 'Chiffon'Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply...
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Ladies Lake
as Carla LyssenhopA handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque...
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The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
as Rosine GrimaudA 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 ElfyElfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié's daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old...
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Douce
as DouceIn Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager...
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Passionnelle
as Thérèse de MarsannesThérèse kills her lover during the very night of her wedding to the count of Vétheul. To gain a...
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Last Hour, Special Edition
as Andrée CocheA journalist who deals with the column "courier du cœur" has the absurd idea of launching an...
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Love Letters
as Zélie FontaineA plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official,...
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L'Âge heureux
as Thérèse NadalThe young heroines are the "Petits Rats de l'Opéra" =pupil of the opera of Paris ballet class...
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Grisou
as MadeleineFemme fatale Madeleine Robinson is married to Raymond Aimos, a coal miner with a face like a...
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Check on the King
as Jeannette de PincretJeanne De Pincret refuses to marry Viscount Haussy De Villefort, having discovered his...
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The Four-Poster Bed
as Marie-DoreeIn his prison cell, the composer Remi Bonvent composed an opera, The columns bed. The director...
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Messieurs Ludovic
as Anne-Marie VermeulenAnne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different...
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Scandal
as CéciliaA young woman who inherits her uncle's nightclub, invents a gangster husband in order to gain...
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Youth in Revolt
as Zizi"Altitude 3.200" asks the question and provides the premise of what would happen if a group of...
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Jean of the Moon
as uncreditedMarceline, the young wife of the florist Jean, can't help flirting with other men, but her...
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Notre-Dame de la Mouise
as uncreditedFather Vincent is trying to build a church in the California neighborhood. Greeted by stones, he...
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Une femme qui se partage
as uncreditedLouis Cruciol, a married man, leads a double life: he maintains his mistress by taking the...
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Trois artilleurs au pensionnat
as MichelineThree happy reservists are doing a military period. One evening out and about, thinking they...
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Hélène
as FrançoiseHelene is based on Helene Wilfur, a novel by Vicki (Grand Hotel) Baum. Madeleine Renaud essays...
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La Glu
as NaïkA young Breton sailor falls in love with a visiting stranger called 'La Glu'. He drops his...
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La bonne peinture
as uncreditedA light philosophical movie about a painter who has the ability to produce paintings that can...
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Le secret du docteur
as SuzyA young woman is married to a cad. She writes him a break-up letter and decides to run away with...
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Summer Storm
as Marie-BlancheAn attractive Englishman who is spending his holidays in France, breaks into a French family.
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Le chant de l'amour
as ToteA poor woman forced to sew in a brothel for a living, a museum guard whose daughters party, an...
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Driving Lesson
as MichelineMicheline is a pretty girl but rich, spoiled and whimsical as well. Jacques, the brother of her...
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Une femme a menti
as uncreditedRobert Chapelain, a renowned lawyer, loves Annette Rollan, a salesgirl. When his children Jean...
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as SelfA talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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