Arletty
Arletty (right) as Garance in Children of Paradise
Birth name	Léonie Marie Julie Bathiat
Born	May 15, 1898(1898-05-15) Courbevoie, France
Died	July 24, 1992 (aged 94) France

Arletty (born Léonie Marie Julie Bathiat) (May 15, 1898 - July 24, 1992) was a French fashion model, singer, and actress. Image File history File links Garance. ... is the 135th day of the year (136th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Bridge of Courbevoie, Georges Seurat, 1886-1887. ... is the 205th day of the year (206th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 135th day of the year (136th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 205th day of the year (206th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... A model is a person who acts as a human prop for purposes of art, pornography, fashion, advertising, etc. ... A singer is a musician who uses their voice to produce music. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...

Arletty was born in Courbevoie, France, 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 French film debut in 1930. Bridge of Courbevoie, Georges Seurat, 1886-1887. ... Music Hall is a form of British theatrical entertainment which reached its peak of popularity between 1850 and 1960. ... French actor, b. ... France has been influential in the development of film as a mass medium and as an art form. ...

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. In this she was not unusual, as many French women behaved in this manner during World Warr II. 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. Marcel Carné (August 18, 1906 - October 31, 1996) was an important French film director. ... This article is about Children of Paradise, the film. ... France surrendered to Nazi Germany early in World War II (June 24, 1940). ... The Longest Day is a 3-hour-long 1962 war film with a very large cast, based on the 1959 book The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan, about D-Day, the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, during World War II. // The movie was adapted by Romain Gary, James...

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.

Selected 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)

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External links

• Arletty at the Internet Movie Database

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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 !"