Arletty

Actor

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Also Known As

Arlette-Leonie Bathiat

Birth Place

France

Born

May 15, 1898

Died

July 24, 1992

Biography

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Elegant, husky-voiced French star of the 1930s and 40s, remembered for her roles in four classics of poetic realism: "Hotel du Nord" (1938), "Daybreak" (1939), "The Devil's Envoys" (1942) and "Children of Paradise" (1945). With her striking features and aloof, mysterious air, Arletty was a kind of French Marlene Dietrich. In the 50s she divided her career between the stage and film until...

Filmography

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Carne: l'Homme a la Camera (1980)

Les Volets Clos (1972)

The Longest Day (1962)

Madame Barrault

Un Drole de Dimanche (1958)

Photos & Videos

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Children Of Paradise, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Paris Is So Small

Children Of Paradise, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Le Boulevard Du Crime

Bibliography

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"Je suis comme je suis"/"I Am as I Am"

Arletty

Biography

Elegant, husky-voiced French star of the 1930s and 40s, remembered for her roles in four classics of poetic realism: "Hotel du Nord" (1938), "Daybreak" (1939), "The Devil's Envoys" (1942) and "Children of Paradise" (1945). With her striking features and aloof, mysterious air, Arletty was a kind of French Marlene Dietrich. In the 50s she divided her career between the stage and film until an accident in 1957 left her temporarily blind. Arletty returned to film in the war epic "The Longest Day" (1962) but recurring blindness sent her into retirement again soon after. Briefly jailed as a collaborator after WWII because of an affair with a German officer, she never married and had no children.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Carne: l'Homme a la Camera (1980)

Les Volets Clos (1972)

The Longest Day (1962)

Madame Barrault

Un Drole de Dimanche (1958)

Le Grand Jeu (1954)

L' Air de Paris (1954)

Children Of Paradise (1945)

Les visiteurs du soir (1942)

Circonstances attenuantes (1939)

Fric-Frac (1939)

Le Jour Se Leve (1939)

Hotel du Nord (1938)

Les Perles de la Couronne (1937)

Un soir de réveillon (1935)

Pension Mimosas (1934)

Walzerkrieg (1933)

Das Schone Abenteuer (1932)

Un Chien qui rapporte (1931)

Music (Feature Film)

Same Old Song (1998)

Life Events

1931

First film, "Un Chien Qui Rapporte"

1945

Played her most famous role, that of Garance in Marcel Carne's "Les Enfants du Paradis"/"Children of Paradise"

1949

Returned to major films with "Portrait of an Assassin"

1957

Accident left her temporarily blind

1964

Began losing her vision again; condition worsened until she was almost completely blind

Photo Collections

Le jour se leve - Movie Poster

Here is an original French poster for Le jour se leve (1939), starring Jean Gabin and Jules Berry.

Videos

Children Of Paradise, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Paris Is So Small Immediately from the opening credits, the "Boulevard of Crime" is revealed, with the introduction of Garance (Arletty) and her first suitor Frederic Lemaitre (Pierre Brasseur), from Marcel Carne's Children Of Paradise, 1945.

Children Of Paradise, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Le Boulevard Du Crime Restoration credits and the elaborate opening from Marcel Carne's epic historical-romance-comedy Children Of Paradise, 1945, starring Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcel Herrand and Pierre Brasseur, from an original screenplay by Carne and Jacques Prevert, produced during the Nazi occupation of France.

Children Of Paradise, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) I Only Talk About Other People's Deaths Jericho (Pierre Renoir), Baptiste (Jean-Louis Barrault) and Silk-thread (Gaston Modot) are but a prelude to Larcenaire (Marcel Herrand) and Garance (Arletty), our for a philosophical evening in Marcel Carne's Children of Paradise, 1945.

Children Of Paradise, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) An Error Of Justice Still during the first scene on the "Boulevard of Crime," Garance (Arletty) sees the mime Baptiste (Jean-Louis Barrault) for the first time, then is accused of a crime, in Marcel Carne's Children of Paradise, shot during the German occupation of France but released after the liberation, in 1945.

Le Jour Se Leve -- (Movie Clip) Your Dirty Laundry Still in flashback, Francois (Jean Gabin) has followed Francoise (Jacqueline Laurent) to the night club, where he sees magician Valentin (Jules Berry) and his assistant Clara (Arletty) for the first time, in Marcel Carne's Le Jour Se Leve, 1939.

Longest Day, The - (Original Trailer) An all-star cast including John Wayne and Henry Fonda in a re-creation of the D-Day invasion on The Longest Day (1962).

Bibliography

"Je suis comme je suis"/"I Am as I Am"

Arletty

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