Odette Joyeux

Known For

Acting

Born

Dec 05, 1914

Died

Aug 26, 2000

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Credits

42 titles

Odette Joyeux

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

1983

Où sont-elles donc ?

Self

Movie
1982

Champs-Elysées

Self

Tv
1975

L'âge en fleur

Creator

Tv
1975

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Self

Tv
1972

Le Grand Échiquier

Self

Tv
1967

La Bonne Peinture

Narrator (voice)

Movie
1966

L'Âge heureux

Novel

Tv
1966

L'Âge heureux

Thérèse Nadal

Movie
1962

Rencontres

Writer

Movie
1958

Be Beautiful and Shut Up

Adaptation

Movie
1957

Love Is at Stake

Writer

Movie
1956

Her Bridal Night

Novel

Movie
1956

If Paris Were Told to Us

La Passementière

Movie
1954

Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances

Self

Movie
1950

La Ronde

Anna, la grisette

Movie
1949

Summer Storm

Marie-Blanche

Movie
1949

Last Hour, Special Edition

Andrée Coche

Movie
1948

Scandal

Cécilia

Movie
1947

Passionnelle

Thérèse de Marsannes

Movie
1946

Driving Lesson

Micheline

Movie
1946

Messieurs Ludovic

Anne-Marie Vermeulen

Movie
1946

Sylvia and the Ghost

Sylvie

Movie
1945

Check on the King

Jeannette de Pincret

Movie
1944

The Little Ones of the Flower Platform

Rosine Grimaud

Movie
1943

Douce

Douce

Movie
1943

The Phantom Baron

Elfy

Movie
1942

Love Letters

Zélie Fontaine

Movie
1942

The Marriage of Chiffon

Corysande 'Chiffon'

Movie
1942

The Four-Poster Bed

Marie-Doree

Movie
1941

Notre-Dame de la Mouise

Movie
1938

The Curtain Rises

Cécilia Prieur

Movie
1938

Youth in Revolt

Zizi

Movie
1938

Grisou

Madeleine

Movie
1938

La Glu

Naïk

Movie
1937

Trois artilleurs au pensionnat

Micheline

Movie
1937

Une femme qui se partage

Movie
1936

Hélène

Françoise

Movie
1935

Le Chant de l'amour

Tote

Movie
1934

Ladies Lake

Carla Lyssenhop

Movie
1931

Jean of the Moon

Figurante (uncredited)

Movie
1930

Le secret du docteur

Suzy

Movie
1930

Une femme a menti

Movie