Odette Joyeux
Actor, Writer
December 5, 1914 — 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.
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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
Filmography
| 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 | Sylvie and the Ghost · as Sylvie |
| 1944 | Les petites du quai aux fleurs · as Rosine Grimaud |
| 1943 | Douce · as Douce |
| 1943 | The Phantom Baron · as Elfy |
| 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 |
| 1938 | Grisou · as Madeleine |
| 1936 | Hélène · as Françoise |
| 1934 | Ladies Lake · as Carla Lyssenhop |
| 1932 | The Yellow Dog · as Cast |
| 1982 | Cinéma cinémas · as Self |
| 1982 | Champs-Elysees · as Self |
| 1976 | César Awards · as Self |
| 1975 | Sunday meetings · as Self |
| 1957 | |
| 1956 | The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful · as Novel |
| 1969 | A Golden Widow · as From An Original Idea By |
| 1958 | Be Beautiful But Shut Up · as Adaptation |
| 1957 | The Innocent with Forty Children · as Scenario And Dialogue |