Odette Joyeux
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 5, 1914
- Died
- August 26, 2000
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
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.
Filmography
Où sont-elles donc ? 1983
as Self
Témoignages : Eve et l'inventeur 1973
as Eve, Writer
La Bonne Peinture 1967
as Narrator (voice), Writer
L'Âge heureux 1966
as Thérèse Nadal, Writer
Rencontres 1962
Writer
Be Beautiful and Shut Up 1958
Adaptation
Love Is at Stake 1957
Writer
Her Bridal Night 1956
Novel
If Paris Were Told to Us 1956
as La Passementière
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances 1954
as Self
La Ronde 1950
as Anna, la grisette
Summer Storm 1949
as Marie-Blanche
Last Hour, Special Edition 1949
as Andrée Coche
Scandal 1948
as Cécilia
Passionnelle 1947
as Thérèse de Marsannes
Driving Lesson 1946
as Micheline
Messieurs Ludovic 1946
as Anne-Marie Vermeulen
Sylvia and the Ghost 1946
as Sylvie
Check on the King 1945
as Jeannette de Pincret
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform 1944
as Rosine Grimaud
Douce 1943
as Douce
The Phantom Baron 1943
as Elfy
Love Letters 1942
as Zélie Fontaine
The Marriage of Chiffon 1942
as Corysande 'Chiffon'
The Four-Poster Bed 1942
as Marie-Doree
Notre-Dame de la Mouise 1941
Actor
The Curtain Rises 1938
as Cécilia Prieur
Youth in Revolt 1938
as Zizi
Grisou 1938
as Madeleine
La Glu 1938
as Naïk
Trois artilleurs au pensionnat 1937
as Micheline
Une femme qui se partage 1937
Actor
Hélène 1936
as Françoise
Le Chant de l'amour 1935
as Tote
Ladies Lake 1934
as Carla Lyssenhop
Jean of the Moon 1931
as Figurante (uncredited)
Le secret du docteur 1930
as Suzy
Une femme a menti 1930
Actor
Credits from TMDB.