Arletty

Léonie Bathiat

Born May 13, 1898· Courbevoie, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France

† Died July 23, 1992

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Emerging from a modest Courbevoie background, Léonie Marie Julie Bathiat adopted the stage name Arletty after a Maupassant heroine and entered the entertainment world through modeling before being guided into theater by art dealer Paul Guillaume. At twenty-one she secured her first stage work, spending a decade in music halls, cabarets and operettas such as Maurice Yvain’s Yes (1928) before making…

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