Odette Joyeux


Odette Joyeux was a French actress, playwright and novelist.

Biography

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. 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 and Côté jardin. Additionally, Joyeux wrote The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful .
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.

Partial filmography

Une femme a menti Le secret du docteur - Suzy, la bonneJean de la Lune - Figurante Le chien jaune - Lake of Ladies - Carla LyssenhopLe chant de l'amour - ToteValse éternelle - SophieHélène - FrançoiseUne femme qui se partage - LéaTrois artilleurs au pensionnat - MichelineLa Glu - NaïkGrisou - MadeleineYouth in Revolt - ZiziThe Curtain Rises - CoeciliaNotre-Dame de la Mouise - La mômeLe Lit à colonnes - Marie-DoréeChiffon's Wedding - Corysande dite ChiffonLove Letters - Zélie FontaineThe Phantom Baron - Elfy de Saint-HéliéLove Story - DouceLes Petites du quai aux fleurs - Rosine GrimaudÉchec au roy - Jeannette de PincretSylvie and the Ghost - SylvieMessieurs Ludovic - Anne-Marie VermeulenLessons in Conduct - MichelinePassionnelle - Thérèse de MarsannesScandal - CéciliaDernière heure, édition spéciale - Andrée CocheSummer Storm - Marie-BlancheLa Ronde - Anna, the GrisetteIf Paris Were Told to Us - La PassementièreLove Is at Stake - Récitante

Honours

She was made Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur on 29 November 1989, and promoted to Officier in 1998.
She was made Officier of the Ordre national du Mérite in 1994.