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Artist: Arletty
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Damia, Fréhel, Edith Piaf

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J.B. Lenoir
  • Formed: May 15, 1898, Courbevoie, France
  • Disbanded: July 23, 1992, Paris, France
  • Genres: Rock
  • Representative Albums: "Les Chansons Eternelles", "Arletty", "Collection

Biography

Born Arlette-Leonie Bathiat in Courbevoie, France, this singer and screen star was raised by a mother who worked as a linen maid and a father who drove for a living. In her twenties, she appeared in several music hall reviews, mixing her love of song with her love of theatre. In 1930, Arletty began her film career. In 1935, Arletty was directed by Jacques Feyder in the film Pension Mimosas. Often drawing comparisons to French singers and starlets such as Edith Piaf, Arletty made her mark in such films like Hotel du Nord in 1938, Le Jour Se Leve in 1939, Les Visiteurs du Soir in 1942 and Les Enfants du Paradis in 1945. As the Second World War ended in 1945, Arletty's career was marked with controversy. After falling in love with a German officer during the occupation of France, Arletty was jailed as a collaborator. Her career would continue afterwards but never reached the same plateau. In 1962, while suffering from partial blindness, she was casted in The Longest Day. One more film would follow, but Arletty would be completely blind by age 68. She lived her remaining years in a small Paris dwelling. She died in Paris on July 23, 1992. In 2002, a self-titled album featuring some of her favorite songs and performances was released. Hits from Arletty include Couer de Parisienne. ~ Jason MacNeil, All Music Guide
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  • Born: May 15, 1898 in Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France
  • Died: Jul 24, 1992 in Paris, France
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '30s-'50s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
  • Career Highlights: The Children of Paradise, Le Jour Se Lève, Les Visiteurs Du Soir
  • First Major Screen Credit: Un Chien Qui Rapporte (1931)

Biography

One of the most beautiful women ever captured on celluloid, French actress Arletty was a stage performer for ten years before her 1930 film debut in Un Chien Qui Rapporte. Somewhat daunted by this movie experience, Arletty withdrew from films for a while to fully train herself in adapting her techniques for the camera. The actress hit her cinematic stride just when the Germans marched into France in 1940; nonetheless, she continued to make films, losing none of her popularity. Although her forte was in portraying down-to-earth women of the world, Arletty is best remembered by film students for her etherial role as a mysterious "femme fatale" beloved by most of the male cast in Les Enfants du Paradis (1944). The film, which celebrated the freedom of the human spirit and which featured several fugitive members of the French Underground, is nowadays regarded as an implicit attack against the Nazi occupation troops. In this context, it is ironic that once the war ended, Arletty would spend several years in prison, charged with conducting an affair with a German military officer. Despite a period of relative disgrace, Arletty continued acting into the 1960s, respected for her acting skills by those who could no longer love her. One of Arletty's final screen appearances was a fleeting cameo as an elderly occupation-era Frenchwoman in the internationally produced epic The Longest Day (1962). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Arletty
Born Léonie Marie Julie Bathiat
15 May 1898(1898-05-15)
Courbevoie, France
Died 24 July 1992 (aged 94)
Paris, France
Years active 1930–1963

Arletty (15 May 1898 – 24 July 1992) was a French fashion model, singer, and actress.

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Biography

Arletty was born Léonie Marie Julie Bathiat in Courbevoie (near Paris), to a working-class family. Her early career was dominated by the music hall, and she later appeared in plays and cabaret. Arletty was a stage performer for ten years before her film debut in 1930. Arletty’s career took off around 1936 when she appeared as leading lady in the stage plays Les Joies du Capitole and Fric-Frac, in which she starred opposite Michel Simon.

In 1945, Arletty appeared in her most famous film role, the central part of Garance in Marcel Carné's Les Enfants du Paradis, her fourth role for the director. Arletty was imprisoned in 1945 for having had a wartime liaison with a German officer during the occupation of France. She allegedly later commented on the experience, "My heart is French but my ass is international."[1] After a moderately successful period as a stage actor in later life, an accident in 1963 left her nearly blind, forcing her to retire. One of her final screen appearances was in a small role as an elderly French woman in the 1962 epic The Longest Day.

On her passing in 1992, Arletty was cremated, her ashes interred in her hometown at the Nouveau Cimetière de Courbevoie.

Legacy

  • In 1995 the government of France issued a series of limited edition coins to commemorate the centenary of film that included a 100 Franc coin bearing the image of Arletty.

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ Geoffrey Nowell Smith, The Oxford History of World Cinema, page 347. See also Arletty, allocine.fr: "mon coeur est français mais mon cul est international !"

Further reading

  • Arletty : La Défense, de la Table ronde, Paris, 1971
  • Arletty / Michel Souvais : Je suis comme je suis, Vertiges du Nord / Carrère, Paris, 1987, ISBN 2-86804-404-2.
  • Michel Souvais : Arletty, confidences à son secrétaire, Publibook, Paris, September 2006.

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