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Odette Joyeux

Actor, Writer, Additional Credits
Died August 26, 2000 (85 years)
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.
Known For
  • La Ronde
  • Sylvie et le fantôme
  • Douce
  • Her Bridal Night
  • Le mariage de Chiffon
  • Be Beautiful But Shut Up
  • Lettres d'amour
  • Passionnelle
  • Ladies Lake
  • The Curtain Rises
  • A Golden Widow
  • L'âge heureux
  • If Paris Were Told to Us
  • Leçon de conduite
  • Le lit à colonnes
  • La bonne peinture
  • Hélène

Filmography

1967
1966
L'âge heureux (TV Series) · as Thérèse Nadal
1956
If Paris Were Told to Us · as La Passementière
1950
La Ronde · as Anna, La Grisette
1947
Passionnelle · as Thérèse De Marsannes
1946
Leçon de conduite · as Micheline
1946
1944
Les petites du quai aux fleurs · as Rosine Grimaud
1943
Douce · as Douce
1943
1942
Lettres d'amour · as Zélie Fontaine
1942
Le mariage de Chiffon · as Corysande 'chiffon'
1942
Le lit à colonnes · as Marie-Doree
1941
1938
The Curtain Rises · as Cécilia Prieur
1936
Hélène · as Françoise
1934
Ladies Lake · as Carla Lyssenhop
1932
The Yellow Dog · as Cast

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