Arletty
Acting
Biography
Léonie Marie Julie Bathiat (15 May 1898 – 23 July 1992), known professionally as Arletty, was a French actress, singer, and fashion model. As an actress she is particularly known for classics directed by Marcel Carné, including Hotel du Nord (1938), Le jour se lève (1939) and Children of Paradise (1945). She was found guilty of treason for an affair with a German officer during World War II. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arletty, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: May 13, 1898
Place of Birth: Courbevoie, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Known For
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Charismatic and resourceful, seducer and daredevil, Jean-Paul Belmondo has always played his roles as he lived, at a thousand miles an hour. He had only one passion: to entertain the public with his smile, his naturalness, his energy, his stunts. But contrary to appearances, his destiny was full of pitfalls. This film lifts the veil on a founding childhood that allowed him to overcome many obstacles throughout his life thanks to the tutelary figures of his father and mother. Told from the inside with the help of his autobiography, interviews and unpublished archives, this epic story traces the career of this turbulent young actor who launched the New Wave in Breathless before becoming the popular Bebel, an indestructible and provocative vigilante. From film to film, this documentary paints an intimate portrait of a man who built himself up to reach the top: his triumphs but also his trials, his doubts, his secrets, his angers, his clowning, his disappointments or his personal dramas.
Children of Paradise
In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: pretentious actor Frederick, conniving thief Lacenaire, and Count Edouard of Montray.
The Woman I Loved the Most
Claude is a young man whose girlfriend has just broken up with him. Feeling unable to overcome the pain, Claude has no other idea than to end his life. Back home, he finds five middle-aged or elderly men sitting at the dinner table but he refuses to join the guests and goes upstairs to his bedroom. The worst is prevented thanks to a servant who has caught sight of Claude's revolver. Claude 's uncle joins his nephew and manages to persuade him not to take action. He takes him downstairs to the dining room where each in turn, the five guests start telling their own story. For it happens that they too once had their heart broken and that they too once wanted to die for love.
Le Grand Échiquier
Cinépanorama
The Longest Day
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Daybreak
After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.
Hôtel du Nord
A young couple's suicide pact goes awry, leaving the woman to face her survival with a new admirer while pining for her lost love.
Mirages
A star of Les Folies Bergères has to choose between her career and her love for an engineer.
Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation
Love & Sex under Nazi Occupation questions the burning mystery of intimate heterosexual and homosexual relations in times of war... and shows how being close to death reinforces the yearning for passion, for pleasure, for transgression, for desire as a last burst of freedom, as an ultimate call to life. Nearly two hundred thousands children are thought to be born of the union of French women with German soldiers. Women weren't the Germans' only conquests; indeed, occupied Paris swarms with all kinds of homosexuals—from Genet to Cocteau—who treated with the occupier. The fate of those women who were shaved at the end of the war for fraternizing with Germans is the punishment of a France that lied down and slept with the enemy.
Filmography
as Self (archival footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Fernande
as Marquise
as Madame Barrault
as Loune de Lindt
as Gabrielle, maîtresse de Rameau et patronne de l'hôtel
as la mère d'Albert
as Gazelle
as Juliette Armier
as Lucrèce
as Gabrielle
as Arlette Bernard
as Nine
as Self
as Inès Serrano
as Blanche Le Garrec
as Blanche
as Edith Mars
as Self
as Mme Alice
as Martha
as Mademoiselle Pascale
as Claire Reine, dite Garance
as Dominique, a Minstrel
as Stella Losange
as Catherine
as Simone, actress tenant
as Catherine Hubscher
as Ida
as Marie Qu'a-d'ça
as Loulou
as Clara
as Raymonde
as Bernadette
as Irma Borel
as Arlette
as Ginette Gina
as Madeleine
as La reine abyssine
as Une Invitée (Prologue)
as Eve Roland
as La Hourmerie's sister-in-law
as Rose de Saint-Leu
as Niquette
as Clarisse
as Agathe
as Ducoudray
as Emma
as Kid Parasol
as Totoche
as Lulu
as Mme Desmignières
as Josyane Plaisir