Arletty

Arletty , pseudonym of Léonie Bathiat , born the May 15th 1898 with Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine), as the writer Celine whom she knew, and dead the July 23rd 1992 with Paris, was a French actress .

Its most outstanding role undoubtedly, and the culminating point of its career of actress, remains without question her interpretation of Garance in the Children of the paradise (1943), of Marcel Carné, under the direction of which it made four other films. This interpretation was sometimes described as “luminous”, which could hold as well the play of the actress as particular treatment of the lightings set up by Roger Hubert, director of the photography of film.

Biography

It is the girl of Michel Bathiat, chief of the deposit of the trams of Courbevoie and Marie Dautreix, washing machine. It makes good studies in a private institution, then undertakes to study the shorthand at Pigier. The war of 1914 mowing on the battle field its first love which it called “Sky”, because of the color of its eyes. In 1916, his/her father dies, crushed by a tram. Arletty, its brother and his mother are then expelled of the deposit.

Arletty is then let allure by a banker, of confession Jew, Jacques Georges Levy. They have the same age. It makes known to him the theater and the Parisian high society. When it leaves it, it meets Paul Guillaume, the merchant of tables who revealed Picasso, Modigliani, Soutine. It is then recommended to the director of small the Théâtre of the Nasturtiums. It was mannequin at Poiret under the pseudonym of Arlette, it becomes Arletty to play in reviews where imagination and the luxury are of setting.

It begins with the cinema in 1930, in Softness to like , near Victor Boucher. As of 1931, it is distinguished in a first role in which charms film from Jean Choux a dog which brings back . Its theatrical career takes a decisive turn in One evening of midnight supper , with the Puff out-Parisian , with Henri Garat, Dranemetr Koval. She plays then in an operetta of Sacha Guitry, on a booklet of Reynaldo Hahn. Then it is Happiness Mesdames with Michel Simon, played nearly five hundred times without interruption, in spite of their successive dissensions.

Jacques Prévert and Marcel Carné offers to him with the cinema its more beautiful roles. But it is necessary to mention a film of Flesh-colored Jeanson, Hôtel of the North which makes it very famous and inserts it of sound alive in the legend of popular Paris. “ Atmosphere, atmosphere! Do I have a mouth of atmosphere? ” launches it to Louis Jouvet, the top of a footbridge which spans the Canal Saint Martin's day.

After the Release, Arletty is stopped because of a connection which it had maintained with a German officer, they had known each other in 1938. It is interned a few days with Drancy then with Fresnes. Released, one advises to him to leave Paris. It finds refuge for sixty fifteen weeks with the castle of the Houssaye-in-Brie, in friends. Insulted by one of the FFI has its arrest, it had this striking down answer: “I have the heart as French as yours, my bottom, is international for him! ” It would have also rétorqué with an examining magistrate which asked for news of its health to him: “Not very resistant! ”

In 1966 it loses the sight but not its liveliness. And thus disappears from the screen, " One cannot play without seeing his partner, that does not have a sens." But lends its voice for various reports, etc More on the actress, one can get defense delivers autobiographical published in 1971.

Quotations

  • "I place the poet at the top of all. Nothing in the hands, nothing in the poches."
  • "I forgive offenses which are made to me, not those done with my amis."
  • "The French confuse " man grand" and " large homme".
  • " The brain is a permanent cineclub. We have thousands of kilometers of films which we project with our imagination in black and white, color, relief.
  • “I was not high, I rose. ”
  • “To hide its age, it is to remove its memories. ”
  • “the love can do without regard, not the friendship. ”
  • With those which reproached him for having had a German lover during the second world war: “If my heart is French, my bottom is international. ”
  • “Of the wrinkles, I have only one of them, and I sat above. ”
  • With the judge also whom reproach me with the Germans? you did not have whom does not have to let them pass
At the time of the law known as " Marthe Richard"
  • " To close the closed houses, it is worse than a fault, it is a pléonasme."

Complete catalog of films

Complement filmographic

Moreover one can see and hear Arletty in the following titles:

  • 1977 : has loss of life… Jacques Prévert - Documentary for the television of Georges Ferraro: Testimony of Arletty

  • 1977: Movies Madnesses - Film of assembly of Philippe Collin with extracts of musical comedies
  • 1981: Notre Dame of the Small cross - Documentary of Daniel Schmid - With images of files
  • 1987: Arletty on the Seine , documentary of Michel Ayats. Last appearance of Arletty. With testimonys of Micheline Boudet, Michel Souvais, Jean-Claude Brialy, Cartero.
  • 1988: Arletty tells Arletty - Documentary for the television of Moïse Maatouk: Testimony of Arletty
  • 1990: do not forget me: Homage to Bernard Blier - Documentary for the television of Mathias Ledoux: Testimony of Arletty
  • 1991: Nylon Blues - Documentary of Francoise Levic - With images of files
  • 1997: One knows the song Alain Resnais - One can intend Arletty to sing And the remainder

  • In certain catalogs of films, one can raise two titles with Arletty of which I ask for confirmation. It is about:

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