Arletty

Arletty

▪ French actress
pseudonym of  Arlette-léonie Bathiat  
born May 15, 1898, Courbevoie, near Paris, Fr.
died July 24, 1992, Paris

      French actress with a distinguished international reputation for her film characterizations.

      Arletty worked for a time in a factory and as a secretary before becoming an artist's model and chorus girl. In 1920 she joined the Théâtre des Capucines and appeared there in innumerable revues as well as at other Parisian theatres in operettas (such as Oui, 1928) and comedies (such as Fric Frac, 1936; “Burglary”).

      Arletty made her film debut in Un Chien qui rapporte (1930; “A Dog That Fetches”) and played minor film roles for many years. Finally, when Marcel Carné cast her as the prostitute who longed for a better life, in Hôtel du Nord (1938), she achieved star status. Similar roles in Carné's Le Jour se lève (1939; Daybreak) and Les Visiteurs du soir (1942; The Devil's Envoys) established her worldwide reputation as the interpreter of the quintessential sophisticated Parisian woman. Arletty's most famous motion-picture role, however, was as the courtesan Garance in Les Enfants du Paradis (1945; Children of Paradise), again directed by Carné.

      At the end of World War II Arletty was briefly jailed for collaboration (she had refused work with German filmmakers but had taken a German lover). She did not complete another film until 1949 (Portrait d'un assassin), the same year she also created the role of Blanche in the first French stage production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. The following year saw another stage success as the lead in Revue de l'empire. During the next 12 years Arletty continued to appear in plays and to make films, most notably playing Inez in the screen version of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit (Huits-clos, 1954) and a cameo role in one of the few films she made for a non-French company, The Longest Day (1962). Although by 1963 she had become almost blind, she eventually returned to the stage, notably in the leading role in Jean Cocteau's Les Monstres sacrés (1966; “The Holy Monsters”), and to films as a madam in Jean-Claude Brialy's Les Volets fermés (1972; “The Closed Shutters”). An autobiography, La Défense, was published in 1971.

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