Odette Joyeux
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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Acting
Movie
La Ronde
as Anna, la grisette
1950
Movie
Sylvia and the Ghost
as Sylvie
1946
Movie
The Curtain Rises
as Cécilia Prieur
1938
Movie
Douce
as Douce
1943
Movie
If Paris Were Told to Us
as La Passementière
1956
Movie
The Phantom Baron
as Elfy
1943
Movie
The Marriage of Chiffon
as Corysande 'Chiffon'
1942
Movie
Love Letters
as Zélie Fontaine
1942
Movie
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
as Rosine Grimaud
1944
Movie
Ladies Lake
as Carla Lyssenhop
1934
Movie
Passionnelle
as Thérèse de Marsannes
1947
TV
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
Movie
Grisou
as Madeleine
1938
Movie
L'Âge heureux
as Thérèse Nadal
1966
Movie
Hélène
as Françoise
1936
Movie
Scandal
as Cécilia
1948
Movie
Last Hour, Special Edition
as Andrée Coche
1949
Movie
The Four-Poster Bed
as Marie-Doree
1942
TV
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1972
Movie
Jean of the Moon
1931
Movie
Trois artilleurs au pensionnat
as Micheline
1937
Movie
Messieurs Ludovic
as Anne-Marie Vermeulen
1946
Movie
Youth in Revolt
as Zizi
1938
Movie
Le Chant de l'amour
as Tote
1935
