Arletty

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name = Arletty


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birthname = Léonie Marie Julie Bathiat
birthdate = birth date|df=yes|1898|5|15
location = Courbevoie, France
deathdate = Death date and age|df=yes|1992|7|24|1898|5|15
deathplace = Paris, France
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Arletty (born 15 May 1898 - 24 July 1992) was a French fashion model, singer, and actress.

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, later appearing in plays and cabaret. 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. Arletty was a stage performer for ten years before her film debut in 1930.

In 1945, Arletty appeared in her most famous film role, the part of Garance in Marcel Carné's "Les Enfants du Paradis". 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." [Geoffrey Nowell Smith, "The Oxford History of World Cinema", page 347. See also [http://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=224.html Arletty] , allocine.fr: "mon coeur est français mais mon cul est international !"] 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.

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

elected filmography

*"Hôtel du Nord" (1938)
*"Le Jour se lève" ("Daybreak", 1939)
*"Les Visiteurs du soir" (1942)
*"Les Enfants du paradis" ("Children of Paradise", 1945)
*"Huis-clos" ("No Exit", 1954)
*"L'Air de Paris" (1954)
*"Le Grand Jeu" (1954)
*"The Longest Day" (1962)

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* [http://www.arletty.com/ Arletty.com]

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NAME=Arletty
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Bathiat, Léonie Marie Julie
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Actor
DATE OF BIRTH= 1898-5-15
PLACE OF BIRTH= Courbevoie, France
DATE OF DEATH= 1992-7-24
PLACE OF DEATH= Paris, France