
Odette Joyeux
Biography
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 (33 movies)

Sylvia and the Ghost
1946

Douce
1943

The Curtain Rises
1938

Scandal
1948

The Phantom Baron
1943

If Paris Were Told to Us
1956

Jean of the Moon
1931

Le chant de l'amour
1935

Une femme qui se partage
1937

Trois artilleurs au pensionnat
1937

La Glu
1938

Notre-Dame de la Mouise
1941

Driving Lesson
1946

Summer Storm
1949

Ladies Lake
1934

Grisou
1938

La Ronde
1950

The Marriage of Chiffon
1942

Love Letters
1942

Check on the King
1945

L'Âge heureux
1966

The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
1944

La bonne peinture
1967

Messieurs Ludovic
1946

Last Hour, Special Edition
1949

The Four-Poster Bed
1942

Hélène
1936

Youth in Revolt
1938

Passionnelle
1947

Où sont-elles donc ?
1983

Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
1954

Une femme a menti
1930

Le secret du docteur
1930
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| Love Is at Stake | 1957 | Writer | 
| Rencontres | 1962 | Writer | 
| L'Âge heureux | 1966 | Writer | 
| La bonne peinture | 1967 | Writer |