Josette Day

Josette Day was born on Jul 31, 1914 in France. Josette Day's big-screen debut came with Un bouquet de flirts directed by Charles de Rochefort in 1932. Josette Day is known for Beauty and the Beast directed by Jean Cocteau, Jean Marais stars as La Bête and Josette Day as Belle. The upcoming new movie Josette Day plays is Les Parents Terribles which will be released on Apr 22, 1950.

Paris-born Josette Day debuted in films at the age of five, but soon returned to the stage, including a stint as a child dancer in the Paris Opera. She did not return to the screen until she was into her adulthood, and her career took off. She played leads in countless French films, but is probably best known for the role of Beauty in Jean Cocteau's La belle et la bête (1946) (French title: "La Belle et la Bête"). She had an affair with Marcel Pagnol. It is to be noted that several English-language sources stated that Day had married and divorced from director Marcel Pagnol; however French sources have discredited this claim. The French newspaper Le Monde ran a correction (on 2 July 1978) of her obituary, stating that the union of Josette Day and Marcel Pagnol "was never consecrated by a marriage." Day's career lasted until 1950 when she retired to marry Maurice Solvay, multi-millionaire Belgian industrialist and businessman, who was reported to be "one of the richest men in Europe" during his lifetime.