Before Arlette-Leonie Bathiat went to the movies she was a secretary and had posed several times as a model for different painters and photographers. In 1920 she debuted on stage at a theatre. She only began to work in movies after 1930. After World War II she was condemned to prison for having been the lover of a German official during the ...
Les Chansons Eternelles, La Compil, Arletty, Mon homme, Arletty Pauline Carton 1925-1939, Le chant du Monde
Star Sign
Taurus
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Quote
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[observation on her prosecution as a collaborator in wartime France] One rarely says it: condemned to life. It's often more harsh than a death sentence.
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"My heart is French but my arse is international!" (when she was accused of having had a relationship with a German soldier during World War II)
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Fact
1
Served two months in a French prison after World War II for having a love affair with a Nazi officer, which constituted collaboration in the eyes of French Justice.
2
Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1956
3
In 1914 a man she loved died on the third day of war and the future actress swore she'd never get married "not to become a war widow or, what would be worse, the mother of a soldier."
4
The funeral cortege made a stop in front of the Hotel du Nord where her famous film of 1938 is located.
5
The nickname is from Maupassant's tale "Arlette"
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Dina chez les rois
1967
Short
Récitante / Narrator (voice)
La nuit écoute
1966
TV Series short
Le voyage
1963
Fernande
Destination Rome
1963
La marquise
The Longest Day
1962
Madame Barrault
La loi des hommes
1962
Loune de Lindt
Les petits matins
1962
Gabrielle, maîtresse de Rameau
La gamberge
1962
La mère d'Albert
Les primitifs du XIIIè
1960
Short
Récitante / Narrator (voice)
Maxime
1958
Gazelle
Un drôle de dimanche
1958
Juliette Armier
Et ta soeur
1958
Lucrèce du Boccage
The Stowaway
1958
Gabrielle
Vacances explosives!
1957
Arlette Bernard
Mon curé chez les pauvres
1956
Nine
Huis-clos
1954
Inès - une lesbienne
L'air de Paris
1954
Blanche Le Garrec
Flesh and the Woman
1954
Blanche
Le père de Mademoiselle
1953
Edith Mars
Gibier de potence
1951
Madame Alice
Georges Braque
1950
Short
Portrait d'un assassin
1949
Martha
Madame et ses peaux-rouges
1948
Mademoiselle Pascale
La fleur de l'âge
1947
Children of Paradise
1945
Claire Reine, dite Garance
La loi du 21 juin 1907
1942
Short
Les Visiteurs du Soir
1942
Dominique - un ménestrel
L'amant de Bornéo
1942
Stella Losange
Boléro
1942
Catherine
La femme que j'ai le plus aimée
1942
Simone, l'actrice locataire
Madame Sans-Gêne
1941
Catherine Hubscher
Tempête
1940
Ida
Circonstances atténuantes
1939
Marie Qu'a-d'ça
Fric-Frac
1939
Loulou
Le Jour se Leve
1939
Clara
Hôtel du Nord
1938
Raymonde
La chaleur du sein
1938
Bernadette Mezin
Le petit chose
1938
Irma Borel
Mirages
1938
Arlette
Aloha, le chant des îles
1937
Ginette Gina
Désiré
1937
Madeleine Crapicheau, la femme de chambre
The Pearls of the Crown
1937
La reine d'Abyssinie
Faisons un rêve...
1936
Une invitée (prologue)
Feu la mère de madame
1936
Short
Mais n'te promène donc pas toute nue
1936
Short
Le mari rêvé
1936
Eve Roland
Messieurs les ronds de cuir
1936
La belle-soeur de la hourmerie
Aventure
1936
Rose Blondel de Saint-Leu
La garçonne
1936
Niquette
Amants et voleurs
1935
Agathe
La fille de Madame Angot
1935
Ducoudray
Le vertige
1935
Emma
Pension Mimosas
1935
La môme Parasol
Le voyage de Monsieur Perrichon
1934
Anita Mathieu
La guerre des valses
1933
La chocolatière
Un soir de réveillon
1933
Viviane
Une idée folle
1933
Anita - une danseuse
Je te confie ma femme
1933
Totoche
Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme
1933
Enlevez-moi
1932
Lulu
La belle aventure
1932
Madame Desmignières
Un chien qui rapporte
1932
Josyane Plaisir
The Sweetness of Loving
1930
Une dactylo (uncredited)
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Rue des plaisirs
2002
performer: "La Femme Est Faite Pour L'Homme"
Aventure
1936
performer: "Laissez-vous faire"
Un chien qui rapporte
1932
performer: "Aimer"
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Ne m'oubliez pas: Hommage
1990
TV Movie documentary
Herself (voice)
Arletty raconte Arletty
1988
TV Movie documentary
Arletty
Le divan
1987
TV Series documentary
Herself
Champs-Elysées
1987
TV Series
Herself
Carné, l'homme
1985
Documentary
Herself (voice)
La nuit des Césars
1983
TV Series documentary
Herself
Jacques Prévert
1977
Herself
À perte de vie... Jacques Prévert
1977
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Samedi soir
1971
TV Series
Herself
Monsieur Cinéma
1968
TV Series
Herself
La nuit écoute
1964
TV Series short
Herself
Pariser Journal
1964
TV Series documentary
Herself
Dans la vie faut pas s'en faire
1962
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Mon frère Jacques
1961
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Paris la belle
1960
Short documentary
Récitante / Narrator (voice)
Cinépanorama
1956
TV Series documentary
Herself
L'amour, Madame
1952
Herself
Michel Simon sous le plâtre
1939
Documentary short
Herself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Nous nous sommes tant aimés
2014
TV Series documentary
Herself
Cocteau Marais - Un couple mythique
2013
TV Movie documentary
Herself
L'Occupation sans relâche - Les artistes pendant la guerre
2010
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Il était une fois...
2009
TV Series documentary
Herself
Arletty, Lady Paname
2007
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Les anges 1943, histoire d'un film
2004
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Nylon blues
1991
Documentary
Notre Dame de la Croisette
1981
Documentary
Herself (uncredited)
Ciné Follies
1977
Documentary
Known for movies
The Longest Day (1962) as Madame Barrault
Children of Paradise (1945) as Claire Reine, dite Garance
Le Jour se Leve (1939) as Clara
Les Visiteurs du Soir (1942) as Dominique - un ménestrel
$700,000
