Odette Joyeux

Odette Joyeux

Born: December 5, 1914
Died: August 26, 2000
in 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.

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Où sont-elles donc ?
Title: Où sont-elles donc ?
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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La bonne peinture
Title: La bonne peinture
Released: November 24, 1967
Type: Movie
A light philosophical movie about a painter who has the ability to produce paintings that can feed people's stomach by watching them.
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L'Âge heureux
Title: L'Âge heureux
Character: Thérèse Nadal
Released: February 11, 1966
Type: Movie
The young heroines are the "Petits Rats de l'Opéra" =pupil of the opera of Paris ballet class .One of them,Delphine,wants to be a ballerina.It's her wildest dream.But alas,in the wake of a night on the roof of the opera -a forbidden place- ,she is fired -and however she was not alone on that roof,her friends were with her!Delphine is desperate and she hides the terrible truth from her mother .What will become of her?
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If Paris Were Told to Us
Title: If Paris Were Told to Us
Character: La Passementière
Released: January 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.
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Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
Title: Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
Character: Self
Released: April 15, 1954
Type: Movie
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La Ronde
Title: La Ronde
Character: Anna, la grisette
Released: September 27, 1950
Type: Movie
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.
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Summer Storm
Title: Summer Storm
Character: Marie-Blanche
Released: December 22, 1949
Type: Movie
An attractive Englishman who is spending his holidays in France, breaks into a French family.
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Last Hour, Special Edition
Title: Last Hour, Special Edition
Character: Andrée Coche
Released: September 30, 1949
Type: Movie
A journalist who deals with the column "courier du cœur" has the absurd idea of ​​launching an investigation into the death of a pianist whom he claims to have been murdered. To dazzle his wife, a reporter for the newspaper, he disguises the facts in such a way that the police suspect him, then declare him guilty. It takes a number of adventures to get him out of this mess and get him back into his section.
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Scandal
Title: Scandal
Character: Cécilia
Released: December 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A young woman who inherits her uncle's nightclub, invents a gangster husband in order to gain respect.
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Passionnelle
Title: Passionnelle
Character: Thérèse de Marsannes
Released: May 14, 1947
Type: Movie
Thérèse kills her lover during the very night of her wedding to the count of Vétheul. To gain a night with her, a modest local worker agrees to bury the body.
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Driving Lesson
Title: Driving Lesson
Character: Micheline
Released: May 29, 1946
Type: Movie
Micheline is a pretty girl but rich, spoiled and whimsical as well. Jacques, the brother of her friend Danielle, is so exasperated by her behavior that he decides to give her a chance to learn about good manners. To that effect, he kidnaps her and detains her in a hut on the edge of a wood. He starts "taming the shrew" but the situation soon gets out of control when criminals - real ones this time - abduct Micheline in earnest... and for ransom!
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Messieurs Ludovic
Title: Messieurs Ludovic
Character: Anne-Marie Vermeulen
Released: May 3, 1946
Type: Movie
Anne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different character than the other two. The young woman will find great love with one of them.
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Sylvia and the Ghost
Title: Sylvia and the Ghost
Character: Sylvie
Released: February 6, 1946
Type: Movie
A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her father hires three men who pretend to be the ghost of the suitor to entertain her. Little do they know, the ghost of the suitor himself is roaming the castle halls.
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Check on the King
Title: Check on the King
Character: Jeannette de Pincret
Released: May 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Jeanne De Pincret refuses to marry Viscount Haussy De Villefort, having discovered his frivolity. After a duel against the Duke De Montgobert, whom Louis XIV recommended to Jeanne, the king forced De Villefort to marry Jeanne, then sent her to war. Separated from her husband, Jeanne discovers that she loves him.
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The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
Title: The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
Character: Rosine Grimaud
Released: May 26, 1944
Type: Movie
A brave bookseller raises his four daughters alone, all of whom he employs in his shop. They are especially interested in their sentimental stories. Rosine, the youngest, falls in love with Francis, fiancé of Edith, the eldest. But Francis pushes her away and Rosine announces that she is going to commit suicide. Bertrand, a young doctor, decides to stop her by watching over her. After a few adventures, everything finally works out. Edith keeps her fiancé, the father, from whom the adventure has been hidden, returns to the usual course of his life and Bertrand and Rosine find themselves alone.
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Douce
Title: Douce
Character: Douce
Released: November 9, 1943
Type: Movie
In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. However she cannot hope to marry him because of their class difference. Douce's widowed father, the Count de Bonafé, has a wooden leg, and is infatuated with Irène. Douce discovers that Fabien is planning to flee to Quebec with Irène, and also finds out that the Count has asked Irène to marry him. So Douce tells Fabien this and convinces him to run away with her, causing consternation in the family.
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The Phantom Baron
Title: The Phantom Baron
Character: Elfy
Released: June 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié's daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old dilapidated castle whose landlord, Baron Julius Carol, disappeared mysteriously some day. The two girls had a playmate, Hervé, the son of the gamekeeper. Now that they are adult, Anne is in love with Hervé while Elfy thinks she loves the young man. One day, the baron's mummified body is found in an oubliette and the secret of the estate is revealed...
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Love Letters
Title: Love Letters
Character: Zélie Fontaine
Released: December 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town’s class tensions.
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The Marriage of Chiffon
Title: The Marriage of Chiffon
Character: Corysande 'Chiffon'
Released: August 6, 1942
Type: Movie
Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow, her mother (Suzanne Dantes) would like to remarry a rich noble. Without realizing it, Chiffon is in love with her uncle, a ruined pioneer of aviation ...
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The Four-Poster Bed
Title: The Four-Poster Bed
Character: Marie-Doree
Released: July 9, 1942
Type: Movie
In his prison cell, the composer Remi Bonvent composed an opera, The columns bed. The director of the prison, Porey Cave, succeeds made believe he is the author of this work. The death of the two protagonists will prevent the discovery of the truth.
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Notre-Dame de la Mouise
Title: Notre-Dame de la Mouise
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Father Vincent is trying to build a church in the California neighborhood. Greeted by stones, he must face a sinister band of deviants excited by a shady cabaret performer. The abbot resists, gradually builds his church and regenerates all the wretches with whom he lives and especially the hardest, Bibi.
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The Curtain Rises
Title: The Curtain Rises
Character: Cécilia Prieur
Released: October 6, 1938
Type: Movie
1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique"). The first-year entrance exams are in full swing. Many applicants, few accepted. Isabelle (Janine Darcey) is one of the few chosen. She joins former students from the second and third years, including François (Claude Dauphin) and Cécilia (Odette Joyeux). They attend the drama class run by Professor Lambertin (Louis Jouvet). The young people, passionate and eager to become comedians, clash in tumultuous love affairs, because by dint of acting, they imagine that life is a farce. François, for example, is in love with Isabelle, who also loves him, but is pursued by Cecilia, his former mistress... "Put art in your life and life in your art!"
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Youth in Revolt
Title: Youth in Revolt
Character: Zizi
Released: July 21, 1938
Type: Movie
"Altitude 3.200" asks the question and provides the premise of what would happen if a group of young people----poor, rich, discontented, bored--- were given an idyllic community in which to live. Call it a colony. Call it a village. Call it one-world. Mainly call it a futile exercise in changing human nature, mores, culture and attitudes at any altitude. For t'ain't no time before clashing personalities, petty jealousy, violence and---that old demon---love create havoc. And isn't much longer before they become re-united in the face of an avalanche that threatens to destroy them. They all return to whence they came, sadder and wiser.
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Grisou
Title: Grisou
Character: Madeleine
Released: May 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Femme fatale Madeleine Robinson is married to Raymond Aimos, a coal miner with a face like a pickled walnut and a libido to match. She wants some action, and what she can’t get from her impotent husband, she looks for elsewhere, first with his best friend Pierre Brasseur, then with his boss Lucien Gallas, who is also dating Brasseur’s kid sister Odette Joyeux.
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La Glu
Title: La Glu
Character: Naïk
Released: April 27, 1938
Type: Movie
A young Breton sailor falls in love with a visiting stranger called 'La Glu'. He drops his betrothed, mother and friends so that he can live with her. La Glu is murdered. Who did it? Relatives and friends are all suspects.
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Trois artilleurs au pensionnat
Title: Trois artilleurs au pensionnat
Released: March 12, 1937
Type: Movie
Three happy reservists are doing a military period. One evening out and about, thinking they were going back to the barracks, they enter a boarding school for young girls. They exchange their uniforms for the dresses of three teachers, which launches them into a series of incredible adventures for a few days.
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Une femme qui se partage
Title: Une femme qui se partage
Released: February 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Louis Cruciol, a married man, leads a double life: he maintains his mistress by taking the identity of one of his employees, Louis Cornette. A series of misunderstandings ensues.
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Hélène
Title: Hélène
Character: Françoise
Released: October 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Helene is based on Helene Wilfur, a novel by Vicki (Grand Hotel) Baum. Madeleine Renaud essays the title role, a young medical student in love with aspiring musician Pierre Regnier (Jean-Lous Barrault). Pierre's father, a noted surgeon, puts pressure on his son to give up music in favor of medicine. Unable to withstand his father's remonstrations, Pierre kills himself, prompting the grieving Madeleine to forget all about romance and dedicate her life to the cause of healing others. Wilfur avoids the usual soap-opera goo by offering realistic performances and credible dialogue (the English-language subtitles were composed by erudite film critic Herman G. Weinberg).
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Le chant de l'amour
Title: Le chant de l'amour
Released: July 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A poor woman forced to sew in a brothel for a living, a museum guard whose daughters party, an old lady with a fiery heart, and a teacher whose daughter is dying of tuberculosis, live in the same building and everyone dreams of love.
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Ladies Lake
Title: Ladies Lake
Character: Carla Lyssenhop
Released: May 18, 1934
Type: Movie
A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpine lake resort. He falls in love with a young heiress who is staying there with her father, but he also grabs the attention of tomboyish Puck who lives on the other side of the lake and who saves him from drowning one foggy night. Further havoc is caused by the arrival of Eric's old sweetheart whose husband is wanted by the police.
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Jean of the Moon
Title: Jean of the Moon
Released: February 27, 1931
Type: Movie
Marceline, the young wife of the florist Jean, can't help flirting with other men, but her brother Clo-Clo takes the poor husband's side against his sister.