Odette Joyeux
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 5, 1914
- Died
- August 26, 2000 (aged 85)
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
Biography
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
Filmography
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Movie · as Self
Champs-Elysées
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Témoignages : Eve et l'inventeur
Movie · as Eve
Le Grand Échiquier
TV · as Self · 1 ep
La Bonne Peinture
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
L'Âge heureux
Movie · as Thérèse Nadal
If Paris Were Told to Us
Movie · as La Passementière
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
Movie · as Self
La Ronde
Movie · as Anna, la grisette
Summer Storm
Movie · as Marie-Blanche
Last Hour, Special Edition
Movie · as Andrée Coche
Scandal
Movie · as Cécilia
Passionnelle
Movie · as Thérèse de Marsannes
Sylvia and the Ghost
Movie · as Sylvie
Driving Lesson
Movie · as Micheline
Messieurs Ludovic
Movie · as Anne-Marie Vermeulen
Check on the King
Movie · as Jeannette de Pincret
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
Movie · as Rosine Grimaud
Douce
Movie · as Douce
The Phantom Baron
Movie · as Elfy
The Marriage of Chiffon
Movie · as Corysande 'Chiffon'
Love Letters
Movie · as Zélie Fontaine
The Four-Poster Bed
Movie · as Marie-Doree
Notre-Dame de la Mouise
Movie
The Curtain Rises
Movie · as Cécilia Prieur
La Glu
Movie · as Naïk
Grisou
Movie · as Madeleine
Youth in Revolt
Movie · as Zizi
Une femme qui se partage
Movie
Trois artilleurs au pensionnat
Movie · as Micheline
Hélène
Movie · as Françoise
Le Chant de l'amour
Movie · as Tote
Ladies Lake
Movie · as Carla Lyssenhop
Jean of the Moon
Movie · as Figurante (uncredited)
Une femme a menti
Movie
Le secret du docteur
Movie · as Suzy