Odette Joyeux

Odette Joyeux (5 December 1914 – 26 August 2000) 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 (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.

Partial filmography

Une femme a menti (1930) Le secret du docteur (1930) - Suzy, la bonne Jean de la Lune (1931) - Figurante (uncredited) Le chien jaune (1932) - (uncredited) Lake of Ladies (1934) - Carla Lyssenhop Le chant de l'amour (1935) - Tote Valse éternelle (1936) - Sophie Hélène (1936) - Françoise Une femme qui se partage (1937) - Léa Trois artilleurs au pensionnat (1937) - Micheline La Glu (1938) - Naïk Grisou (1938) - Madeleine Youth in Revolt (1938) - Zizi The Curtain Rises (1938) - Coecilia Notre-Dame de la Mouise (1941) - La môme Le Lit à colonnes (1942) - Marie-Dorée Chiffon's Wedding (1942) - Corysande dite Chiffon Love Letters (1942) - Zélie Fontaine The Phantom Baron (1943) - Elfy de Saint-Hélié Love Story (1943) - Douce Les Petites du quai aux fleurs (1944) - Rosine Grimaud Échec au roy (1945) - Jeannette de Pincret Sylvie and the Ghost (1946) - Sylvie Messieurs Ludovic (1946) - Anne-Marie Vermeulen Lessons in Conduct (1946) - Micheline Passionnelle (1947) - Thérèse de Marsannes Scandal (1948) - Cécilia Dernière heure, édition spéciale (1949) - Andrée Coche Summer Storm (1949) - Marie-Blanche La Ronde (1950) - Anna, the Grisette If Paris Were Told to Us (1956) - La Passementière Love Is at Stake (1957, TV Movie) - Récitante (voice) A Golden Widow (1969, screenwriter)

Honours She was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur on 29 November 1989,

She was made Officier (Officer) of the Ordre national du Mérite in 1994.