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).

May 1, 2020 · It’s about the actress known as Arletty, best known in the United States for her role in “Children of Paradise.” During the Nazi occupation of France, Arletty had an affair with a German...

Arletty (born May 15, 1898, Courbevoie, near Paris, Fr.—died July 24, 1992, Paris) was a 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.

Arletty. Actress: The Longest Day. 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.

French actress, known as "the Garbo of France," who is famed for her work in Les Enfants du Paradis and Hôtel du Nord, and for her brief affair with a German flyer. Name variations: Arlette. Born Léonie Bathiat in Courbevoie, France, on May 15, 1898; diedin Paris on July 24, 1992; daughter of a miner and a laundress; never married; no children.

Jul 24, 1992 · Leonie Bethiat (Arletty), actress, born Paris 15 May 1898, died Paris 24 July 1992. IN HER native France the statuesquely tall, dark and minxish Arletty was known and cherished above all for...

Jul 25, 1992 · Arletty, a dark-haired beauty who began her career as a factory worker and ended as a legend of the French cinema, died today at her Paris home, friends of the actress said. She was 94 years...

Jul 28, 1992 · Arletty, 94, dark-haired factory worker who became a legendary actress in French films. Born in a Paris suburb, Leonie Bethiat worked in an armaments factory to help support...

Arletty, nom de scène de Léonie Bathiat, née le 15 mai 1898 à Courbevoie et morte le 23 juillet 1992 à Paris 1, 2, est une actrice et chanteuse française.

Arletty was arguably the first and the best, of the film femme fatales, a perfect subject for the poetic realists of the late 1930s. Arletty's career blossomed in around 1936 when she won fame and recognition for her lead role in the stage plays Les Joies du Capitole and Fric-Frac, in which she starred opposite Michel Simon. She subsequently ...