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  Arletty Gallery / Original painting and sculpture / galery on line - Switzerland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Arletty Gallery / Original painting and sculpture / galery on line - Switzerland
Arletty spent her childhood in Egypt, Mexico, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
Several readings are equally possible, equally plausible, yet leading to radically different conclusions; there is a theatrical quality in Arletty's works, quite perceptible in their stage-Iike atmosphere.
www.arlettygallery.com /site-uk.htm   (182 words)

  
  Arletty / actress / actrice / films / filmography
Arletty's early film appearances established her as the strong yet marginalised female character with which she would be most identified in later years.
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 resumed her film career in the late 1940s, but failed to regain the affection and respect she had enjoyed before for the war.
frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_arletty.html   (535 words)

  
  Arletty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arletty was born in Courbevoie, France, to a working-class family.
Arletty’s career took off around 1936 when she appeared as leading lady in the stage plays Les Joies du Capitole and Fric-Frac, in which she starred opposite Michel Simon.
Arletty was imprisoned in 1945 for having had a wartime liaison with a German officer during the occupation of France.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arletty   (187 words)

  
 Arletty: Album Reviews, Biography - MOG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Arletty (born Léonie Marie Julie Bathiat) (May 15 1898 - July 24 1992) was a French fashion model, singer, and actress.
Arletty was born in Courbevoie, France, to a working-class family.
Arletty’s career took off around 1936 when she appeared as leading lady in the stage plays Les Joies du Capitole and Fric-Frac, in which she starred opposite Michel Simon.
mog.com /music/Arletty   (121 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Biography
Somewhat daunted by this movie experience, Arletty withdrew from films for a while to fully train herself in adapting her techniques for the camera.
Although her forte was in portraying down-to-earth women of the world, Arletty is best remembered by film students for her etherial role as a mysterious "femme fatale" beloved by most of the male cast in Les Enfants du Paradis (1944).
One of Arletty's final screen appearances was a fleeting cameo as an elderly occupation-era Frenchwoman in the internationally produced epic The Longest Day (1962).
video.barnesandnoble.com /search/biography.asp?CTR=571994   (237 words)

  
 Messiah of Evil   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Staying at her fathers beach house Arletty quickly begins her search, starting with her fathers old gallery contacts and then continuing with Charlie, a local wino, who recounts a legend to both Arletty and a young group of hedonists she has met, led by the medallion garbed Thom.
However, by now Arletty and Thom are not only trying to save their own lives they are also starting to display worrying signs that whatever it is that happens to the townspeople is starting to happen to them.
Such is Arletty's fate, where in her own words the people in the asylum now wait for her to "lift up her dress and pee on the floor like some crazy old woman".
www.bizarreingredients.co.uk /horror/messiah/messiah.html   (1052 words)

  
 Arletty - Films as actress:
Arletty, the legendary and captivating actress was a major star during France's "Golden Age" of cinema in the 1930s and 1940s.
For a time, Arletty was discussed primarily in terms of her well-known love affair with a German officer and for her brief imprisonment after the liberation than for her work on-screen.
In 1984, Arletty's legendary status was confirmed when a cinema opened in the Pompidou Centre in Paris that was named after her most famous character, Salle Garance.
www.filmreference.com /Actors-and-Actresses-A-Ba/Arletty.html   (989 words)

  
 Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life
Arletty, a young and alluring gospel singer from Louisiana, leaves her Baptist community and goes to the modern-day Utah of Latter-Day Saints, where she has earned a scholarship to a Mormon University.
Arletty: her high cheekbones and perfect skin, her sparkling eyes and confidence -- she is meek and deadly too, a femme fatale, a daughter, a whore -- a woman, an object, a sister, more.
This is what Arletty was made for: her thorax, her lungs, the tendons in her neck -- quivering ecstatically, shuddering unceasingly -- like a tuning fork ringing and ringing and ringing -- she belts it out for God.
www.corpse.org /issue_14/unm_person/spitzer.html   (1835 words)

  
 Arletty – FemBio: Frau der Woche
Das 94 Jahre währende Leben der französischen Schauspielerin Arletty verlief wie eine steil ansteigende und ebenso steil wieder abfallende Kurve.
Arletty, die eigentlich Léonie Bathiat hieß, stammte aus ärmlichen Verhältnissen und arbeitete sich vom Fotomodell zur Filmschauspielerin hoch.
Die Schloßherrin war sehr verliebt in Arletty, wie viele Frauen, die ihrer erotischen Ausstrahlung und ihrer rauchigen Stimme verfallen waren und wohl auch von ihr erhört wurden.
www.fembio.org /frauen-biographie/arletty.shtml   (492 words)

  
 Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life
Arletty convinces her husband to leave Africa with the impresario and his negro...
Arletty sings in the nightclubs of the gangsters...
Arletty has been part of certain pacts, without her knowledge...
www.corpse.org /issue_5/celine/keho.htm   (1402 words)

  
 Hôtel du Nord: Sight and Sound Review Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Today, Arletty (playing Raymonde) seems to be the star of Hôtel du Nord, but it was Annabella (Renée) who was the top French female star of the period.
Arletty gives Raymonde the unique mixture of beauty, intelligence and risqué humour which had made her such a success on stage, while her peerless voice is unforgettable.
Jouvet's fatalistic drawl is a perfect foil for Arletty's high-pitched squeaks and Parisian slang, immortalised in the "Atmosphère!, atmosphère!" scene where the two argue on the bridge over the canal.
www.bfi.org.uk /sightandsound/reviews/details.php?id=51   (870 words)

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