Josette Day
Josette Day ( born July 31, 1914 in Paris, † June 27, 1978 ibid; actually Josette Noëlle Andrée Claire Dagory ) was a French film actress.
Life
Josette Day was born in 1914 in Paris as Josette Noëlle Andrée Claire Dagory into a theater family. At the age of three years she appeared as a little dancer on the stage of the Paris Opera. At five years old she was the first time in front of the film camera. During the 1920s, she returned to the stage as a dancer. In 1931 she continued her film career continued under the stage name Josette Day.
In 1933, she was next to Emil Jannings in the movie The Adventures of King Pausole (Les Aventures du roi Pausole ) directed by Alexei Mikhailovich Granovsky to see, based on the eponymous operetta (1930 ) by Arthur Honegger. During the 1930s and 1940s she played many leading roles in French films. Mostly she was the on naive lover who marries happily after many twists at the end. Your probably best known role is that of the beautiful Bella on the side of Jean Marais in Jean Cocteau's film classic fairy tale Once upon a time (La Belle et la Bête, 1946), which is also known under the title Beauty and the Beast in Germany. Cocteau cast her in 1948 in Parents Terribles, a film adaptation of his own novel of the year 1929.
Josette Day 1939 met the French filmmaker Marcel Pagnol know in whose successful war drama La Fille du Puisatier (1940 ) she played alongside Raimu and Fernandel the female lead. They were a couple, but went their separate ways in 1943. The late 1940s, Day eventually married the Belgian industrialist Maurice Solvay, and she was only 36 years in 1950 her career hung on a nail and henceforth devoted her private life and charity work.
Josette Day died in 1978 at the age of 63 years in her hometown. She was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.