Josette Day
Josette Day | |
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| Born | Josette Noële Andrée Claire Dagory 31 July 1914 Paris,France |
| Died | 27 June 1978(aged 63) Paris,France |
| Other names | Josette Solvay |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1919–1950 |
| Spouse | Maurice Solvay |
| Partner | Marcel Pagnol |
| Children | Hinano Tiatia Dagory (adopted daughter)[1] |
Josette Noële Andrée Claire Dagory[2](31 July 1914 – 27 June 1978), better known asJosette Day,was a French film actress.
She began her career as achild actressin 1919 at the age of five. When she was 18, Day was the mistress ofPaul Morand.Later on she got into a relationship with famous French writer and directorMarcel Pagnol,whom she met in January 1939. The relationship lasted up until part of World War II and she did not marry him.[3][4][5][6]
In 1946, she played her best-known role, alongsideJean Marais,as Belle inJean Cocteau's 1946 filmBeauty and the Beast.
Her films include;Allo Berlin? Ici Paris!(1932),The Merry Monarch(based onLes Aventures du roi Pausole) (1933),Lucrèce Borgia(1935),L'homme du jour(1937),Accord final(1938),La Belle et la Bête(1946) andLes Parents terribles(1948).
Despite numerous parts in famous French films, Day ended her career as an actress in 1950 when she was 36 years old. She retired to marry wealthy chemical businessman Maurice Solvay (descendant ofErnest Solvay,founder of the notableSolvay company). In February 1959, while on cruise in the Pacific, she and Solvay met a Tahitian girl at aPapeetemarket. The girl's name was Hinano Tiatia. The couple took her under their legal guardianship. However, she became the center of Solvay's inheritance dispute having not been adopted at the time of his sudden death in 1960.[7][8][9][10]
Selected filmography
[edit]- Here's Berlin(1932)
- The Regiment's Champion(1932)
- Miss Helyett(1933)
- Colomba(1933)
- The Barber of Seville(1933)
- The Concierge's Daughters(1934)
- Mam'zelle Spahi(1934)
- Coralie and Company(1934)
- Antonia(1935)
- His Excellency Antonin(1935)
- Lucrezia Borgia(1935)
- Women's Club(1936)
- The Flame(1936)
- Ménilmontant(1936)
- Sisters in Arms(1937)
- The Man of the Hour(1937)
- Monsieur Bégonia(1937)
- Final Accord(1938)
- Education of a Prince(1938)
- The Patriot(1938)
- The Five Cents of Lavarede(1939)
- Monsieur Brotonneau(1939)
- The Well-Digger's Daughter(1940)
- The Crossroads(1942)
- Arlette and Love(1943)
- Beauty and the Beast(1946)
- Les Parents terribles(1948)
- Swiss Tour(1950)
- Love, Madame(1952)
References
[edit]- ^MyHeritage Family Trees: Ernest Gaston Joseph Solvay. Dagory Website managed by Hinano Dagory at MyHeritage
- ^"Josette Day: 1914 Acte de naissance and 1978 Acte de décès".CinéArtistes.RetrievedJuly 30,2018.
- ^"Marcel Pagnol: Les Amours".Marcel-Pagnol.Marcel Pagnol official website
- ^Amar,Corinne (November 2015)."Marcel Pagnol: Portrait".fondationlaposte.org.
- ^Williams, James S. (2006).Jean Cocteau.p. 63.ISBN9780719058837.
- ^Rège, Philippe (2010). "Pagnol, Marcel".Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1.p. 790.ISBN9780810869394.
- ^"Tahitian Tot Falls Heir to Millions".The Miami News.June 24, 1960. p. 4A.
- ^"Cinderella From Tahiti"(PDF).Parade.fultonhistory. February 5, 1961. p. 6.
- ^"The mud pie heiress to $200 m. fortune".The Straits Times.June 28, 1960. p. 1.
- ^"Streit um eine Erbschaft von 300 Millionen DM".Hamburger Abenblatt.abendblatt.de. 1960.(in German)
