Josette Day

Josette Day

Nascimento : 1914-07-31, Paris, France

Morte : 1978-06-27

História

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.

Perfil

Josette Day

Filmes

Love, Madame
Herself
Madame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but François has other plans.
Swiss Tour
Suzanne
A sailor on leave meets a beautiful girl on the ski slopes of Switzerland.
O Pecado Original
Madeleine
Com diálogos intensos e lances teatrais, a história gira em torno de um triângulo amoroso, vivido entre um jovem mimado, uma moça e um homem mais velho. Foi baseado em uma peça de teatro de sucesso do próprio Cocteau, que manteve o elenco original para a gravação do filme.
Stolen Affections
Françoise Darbel
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 pushes him away, driving him to suicide. Another man she thinks she loves is already married.
Beauty and the Beast
Belle
Obra-Prima do cinema francês que recria com encanto e magia o famoso conto de fadas de Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. Um comerciante quase falido vive com seu filho Ludovic (Michel Auclair) e com suas três filhas. Duas delas, Felicie (Mila Paréli) e Adelaide (Nane Germon) são muito perversas, egoístas e pretensiosas. Elas se aproveitam da caçula, Bela (Josette Day), fazendo-a de empregada delas. Um dia, o comerciante perde-se na floresta e entra em um estranho castelo. Ele pega uma rosa para entregar à Bela e com isso, o dono do castelo, um monstro meio humano, meio fera, surge para ver quem está lá. A fera sentencia o comerciante à morte, a não ser que uma das filhas dele o substitua na prisão. Bela se sacrifica pelo pai e vai ao castelo, onde descobre que a fera não é tão selvagem e desumana.
Arlette et l'amour
Madame Millois, an ambitious mother, thinks she has found the perfect match for her daughter Arlette, Count de Tremblay-Matour. Alas, the ideal husband happens to be a crook. On the night of the wedding, the fake nobleman robs his wife and abandons her. While the outraged Madame Millois looks for the real Count de Tremblay, Arlette seeks consolation with Maxime, a childhood friend. At last, the real count is found. Unsurprisingly, he is furious to learn that, legally, he is Arlette's husband. After a while though, he mellows and accepts to "remain" Arlette's husband.
La Croisée des chemins
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 duties toward work and family?
La prière aux étoiles
Florence Richaud
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: before meeting Pierre she was a kept woman. Her chivalrous lover, Dominique, chooses to set her free. But Pierre is an uncompromising man and, furious with Florence, threatens to leave her...
A Filha do Poceiro
Patricia Amoretti
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, a inocente Patrícia, uma menina do campo, filha de um homem que abre poços, é seduzida por Jacques Mazel, um charmoso aviador. Após encontros românticos à beira de um misterioso rio, Patrícia engravida de Jacques, que é enviado para a guerra. Quando a criança nasce, o seu pai, Pascal, expulsa-a de casa. A família de Jacques não quer reconhecer a paternidade do filho, o que poderá empurrar Patrícia para os braços de Felipe.
Monsieur Brotonneau
A man leaves his adulterous wife for his secretary, but then the wife apologizes and wants her husband back again.
The Five Cents of Lavarede
Miss Aurett Murlington
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 around the globe with a mere five cents coin. Worse, he can't even spend it or else he will not come into the money of his inheritance. To make sure Lavarède plays by the rules of the game, two supervisors stick to him like a shadow. Will the young man meet this unbelievable challenge?
Final Accord
Suzanne
A famous violinist enlists in a music school in order to woo one of the students.
Bargekeepers Daughter
Marianne Honorat
Prince Sacha studies in Paris and cares more for Marianne than about Silistrie, the country his family was exiled from. But Chautard, a French financier, who has business there (the country is rich in oil), wouldn't mind a little political stability. So why not restore the ancient royal family to the throne? But is Prince Sacha up to his role ? And will Marianne make a suitable princess?
Le Patriote
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.
Monsieur Bégonia
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 himself the required appearance and under the name of Monsieur Bégonia, now presides over the destinies of the house.
Sisters-in-Arms
Léonie Vanhoutte
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
The Man of the Day
Suzanne Petit
Alfred Boulard, a good-natured electrician, gives his blood to save Mona Thalia, a great theater actress. Mona Thalia survives and Boulard becomes the man of the hour. Grateful to him, Mona helps Alfred to become a singing star. But his fame will be short-lived.
The Bureaucrats
Mme Chavarax
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.
Ménilmontant
Julie
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 park for the neighborhood children.
Girls' Club
Juliette
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 York City's 55th Playhouse played it anyway. Along the way the audience meets the girl who sneaked her lover into her no-men-allowed room and her patch soon turns blue; a young lady with a passionate intensity who chooses another young lady as the object of her affections; the blindly-misguided director of the hotel, another lady of real easy virtue who is not the one who smuggled her lover into her room; and a girl who is only there as a procurer for a slavery ring.
Jeunesse d'abord
Two different young couples marry, despite the wishes to the contrary of their parents.
The Flame
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 conditions, she keeps thinking about him. When she finds him, twenty years later, she can not adapt to the environment to which he now belongs.
Daddy's Girl
After winning the lottery, an orphan who wants to find a husband asks a hotel porter to be her father.
Lucrezia Borgia
French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one of history's most ruthless and ambitious crime families.
La Sonnette d'alarme
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 niece Genevieve, abandoned by her husband.
Aux portes de Paris
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 son a lazy scoundrel, to the tearful father and decides to keep the other boy, but the truth does not soon to burst.
Bibi-la-Purée
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 discovers in Bob a relative. He does not send them to prison and welcomes them to his property.
Antonia
Piri
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 and outlines a flirtation with an aviator engaged to her niece. The presence of mind of the latter pleasantly closes the adventure.
Mam'zelle Spahi
Nicole
Two mistresses snubbed by their respective lovers crash a military ball and their lovers then resort to an unusual strategy to win them back.
N'aimer que toi
Denise
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 his dreams. A commitment takes her away, she tries to kill herself but he comes back in time and they can love each other without constraint.
L'Aristo
Nicknamed "the Aristo", a friendly tramp, once a very rich and influential man, will one fine day rediscover the splendor of his past...
Coralie and Company
Lulu
A young couple goes through a plot unscathed in the welcoming salons of a large fashion house.
The Daughters of the Concierge
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 planned.
Le couché de la mariée
Claude loves Gisèle, Raymonde loves Édouard, but a double misunderstand leads to the marriage of Claude and Raymonde. Obviously, they vow not to consumate the marriage until they divorce, and can marriage their true loves. But than, come the honey-moon night, more extraordinary things happen to them - even love.
C'était un musicien
Lili Vandernyff
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 falls in love with the baron's daughter.
The Barber of Seville
Suzanne
Based on an opera by Rossini and an opera by Mozart, taken from the work of Beaumarchais.
The Merry Monarch
Princess Aline
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 with Giglio, a visiting airman stranded in the kingdom. Giglio comes from a modern and different world and this gives Queen for a Day some ideas about how to make her title a lasting one.
Colomba
A young officer of Napoleon's armies returns to Corsica where his sister is waiting for him to avenge the death of their father.
Miss Helyett
The daughter of the austere professor Smithson, during a walk on skis, loses her balance, revealing her underwear. An indiscreet photographed the scene. Smithson demands that his daughter marry this man, but who is he? He luckily turns out to be the young man she loves.
Just Leon
La secrétaire d'Oeil-de-Lynx
Léon is hired by a detective agency to monitor a music hall star whose friend is extremely jealous.
The Regiment's Champion
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. A soldier in spite of himself, he knows the most frightening adventures which even lead him to a boxing fight from which he will emerge victorious.
Here's Berlin
Lily
Story of a rendezvous in Paris which is prepared through telephone calls between a Berlin telephonist and his female colleague in Paris.
Un bouquet de flirts
Oaths
In the eighteenth century, during a revolution in Karelia, an aristocrat, Armas de Murnau, fought alongside the revolutionaries. Captured, sentenced to death, he will try everything to see the woman he loves.