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Arletty
Arletty was the stage name of French actress, singer, and model Léonie Marie
Julie Bathiat (May 15, 1898), who rose to fame in the late 1930s on a series of
classic films directed by Marcel Carné. Born into a working-class family in the
commune of Courbevoie, she left home following her father's death and quickly
adopted the alias Arletty, which was inspired by a character in one of Guy de
Maupassant's stories. Even though she began working as a model, it wasn't until
meeting art dealer Paul Guillaume that she took an interest in acting. After
cutting her teeth as a stage perform...
