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  Josette du Pres Played by Dawn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Josette is 24 years old, and from Martinique.
She is the reincarnation of the original Josette du Pres.
In the 18th century, the original Josette du Pres died when she fell from Widow Hill.
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 Dark Shadows - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Later, she would be revealed as a ghost whose mortal shell died in either 1795 or 1830, depending on the variable continuity, which would later change as often as did the series writers.
Barnabas was supposed to marry Josette du Pres (Kathryn Leigh Scott), but instead he succumbed to the wiles of Josette's maid, Angelique, with whom he shared a dalliance in Martinique.
Using her witchcraft, Angelique made Josette fall in love with and wed Barnabas' brother Jeremiah (whom Barnabas subsequently killed in a duel), and tricked Barnabas into marrying her; but soon Barnabas learned that Angelique was in fact a witch, and killed her.
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 Josette du Pres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Josette du Pres or Josette Collins was a character played by Kathryn Leigh Scott during the 1795 flashback/alternate timeline on the cult TV serial Dark Shadows.
Born in 1774 in France, her widowed father was Andre du Pres (David Ford) who worked in the sugar business.
Josette Du Pres came to Collinsport, Maine in 1795 to marry Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid) There was skulduggery afoot, however...
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 Winds of Change -- 4
It was an arranged marriage by the du Pres and Le Carbet families and not one that Josette preferred, but she was a duty bound daughter and would do anything to please her father.
Josette and Barnabas had spent many nights on the veranda speaking of Josette's new life in France and her desire to truly be free of Pierre.
Josette then turned again to Barnabas, but this time she was able to be free with how she truly felt and Barnabas now knew that she was the woman he wanted as his wife.
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 Dark Shadows - Abika.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Although Laura would return to plague the Collinses, she would be superseded by the popularity of three characters debuting in 1967-68: the reluctant vampire Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid), the beautiful (and oh so WITCHY) witch Angelique (Lara Parker), and the brooding Quentin Collins (David Selby).
Collins, on awakening, is obsessed with finding the reincarnated Josette, his brother's wife whom he loved and lost in the past.
Barnabas was supposed to marry Josette du Pres (Kathryn Leigh Scott), but he spurned the attentions of her maid, Angelique, with whom he shared a dalliance in the West Indies.
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 A More Consistent Origin -- 24-26
Nathalie Du Pres felt a sense of dread as she proceeded, as she recently had had some readings showing that all was not well at the plantation, and that there would be violent change.
Nathalie Du Pres responded, "I do not know if she has no family, but I do know that she wanted to go to Monsieur Dawson's agency in town, the same agency that placed her mother here when she was pregnant with Angelique.
Josette cast her eyes down and fought the expression of disgust she wanted to show because she had sworn to her family that she would lie.
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And whenever she pleased, she could use Julia as her agent du jour, and command her to perform any ghastly act she so desired.
Josette du Pres' world was plantations and tropics and only the finest things; Vicki Winters' world was and is survive-any-way-you-can.
She's smarter than Josette, she's more mature than Josette, and she is not in love with you." Barnabas was stricken.
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 Dark Shadows - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Acting on a suggestion from his children, and desperate to save his brainchild, Curtis decided to give the series an extra dimension with the introduction of an ancestor named Josette Collins (introduced as a mysterious sobbing woman, as yet unidentified, in the 37th episode, which aired on August 16, 1966).
Later, she would be revealed as a ghost whose mortal shell died in 1795, and would in 1966 save Victoria Winters from a deranged killer.
Although Laura would return to plague the Collinses, she would be superseded by the popularity of three characters debuting in 1967-68: the reluctant vampire Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid), the beautiful witch Angelique (Lara Parker), and the brooding Quentin Collins (David Selby).
www.grohol.com /psypsych/Dark_Shadows   (1868 words)

  
 Rate Saver - Products : Dark Shadows DVD Collection 4
Viewers discover that Barnabas is about to wed the love of his life, Josette Du Pres, but a jealous servant of Josette's with whom Barnabas had brief affair, successfully plots to ruin their relationship.
The servant, Angelique, portrayed with stunning ability by Lara Parker, is actually a witch born in Martinique who uses her supernatural powers to wreck havoc on the pair and almost everyone else in Collinwood.
The story of Barnabas, his love for Josette that ends tragically and his involuntary transformation into a vampire is the cornerstone for all of the later story arcs that are to come in the series.
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 A History of the English Branch of the Collins Family
His records state that Josette du Pres arrived at Collinwood in 1795 to marry Jerimiah, when the fact is that she went there to marry Barnabas.
He distrusted her for so many reasons: her name, the fact that she strongly resembled the woman who had been his grandfather's first wife, knowing that she was fascinated with the fl arts, and the knowledge that he didn't love her.
She bore a resemblance to the portrait of the woman that his ancestor, Barnabas, had brought from Martinique to become his bride and never married -Josette du Pres Collins, and this Barnabas felt that it was indeed a sign that they were meant to be together.
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 Dark Shadows 2004: Barnabas Undead Forums - New Pilot pics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
That is, when Barnabas first encounters Maggie Evans (and emediately recignizes her as Josette) she's waitressing in a diner and wearing a waitress uniform.
But, despite the hair and the clothes, Barn still recignized her face as that of his long lost Josette (and the first thing he does after he kidnaps Maggie is have her rearrange her hair and put on one of Josettes empire style dresses from the eighteenth century).
If you saw the portrait of her as Josette (with her blond hair in long, "vanity fair' era ringlets and period clothes) you would have a different opinion...
www.barnabasundead.com /forums/printthread.php?t=218&pp=40   (4346 words)

  
 Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | "Dark Shadows"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Barnabas showed up at Collinwood claiming to be a long-lost relative and prevailed upon Elizabeth to let him move into another house on the property.
The softer side of Barnabas emerged in a flashback to 1795, in which Barnabas was cursed into vampiredom by Josette's maid, Angelique (Lara Parker), who loved Barnabas.
Josette met a tragic end, setting Barnabas' desire for vengeance in motion.
archive.salon.com /ent/masterpiece/2002/05/20/dark_shadows/print.html   (1749 words)

  
 Dark Shadows Movies and Re-makes
Recently unleashed from his coffin by local drunk, Willie Loomis, the vampire (Barnabas) goes on a killing spree, while at the same time charming his present day family members.
In the process he meets local girl Maggie Evans and notices that she looks exactly like his deceased fiancé Josette.
Barnabas assumes that she is the reincarnation of Josette, and plans to make him his unholy bride for eternity.
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 Sony Pictures - DVD & Video
Episode Seven: Transported to the year 1790, Victoria meets the residents of Collinwood and becomes a tutor for Daniel and Sarah Collins.
Episode Eight: A jealous Angelique uses witchcraft to prevent the marriage of Barnabas and Josette Du Pres.
DISC 3 - Episode Nine: Josette Du Pres accuses Barnabas Collins of killing her true love.
www.breakthecode.net /homevideo/catalog/catalogDetail_DVD027616124258.html   (352 words)

  
 MPI Home Video - JOSETTE'S MUSIC BOX
A collector's item available for a limited time, this is a reproduction of the beloved music box given to Josette Du Pres in 1795 by Barnabas Collins.
This edition is an exact replica of the rare version originally sold in 1970.
Made of plastic with painted copper design and a pattern molded lid, the wind-up music box plays the lovely "Josette's Theme" and comes packed inside a cardboard box with a picture of Barnabas and Josette.
www.mpihomevideo.com /productdetail.asp?pid=1582   (86 words)

  
 [TheDarkGift] Cassandra Bouchard Collins
She and her fraternal twin sister, Angelique, learned voodoo practices from their mother at a young age and became schooled in the art when they were in their teens.
When Angelique turned eighteen, she went into service to a young heiress, Josette du Pres, and traveled with her to America.
Cassandra, however, remained in Martinique, caring for her father, who was a slave to his bottle and developed liver disease.
www.mail-archive.com /thedarkgift@yahoogroups.com/msg00571.html   (1317 words)

  
 Virtual Phantom: Members: Favorite Threads: Playing with Fire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Josette du Pres and a M. Quincy Morris.
du Pres today, and take them with to meet you, but..." she cringed like a child who didn't want to be beaten, "I forgot."
Is Josette coming along?" She motioned outside, "there is a carriage waiting outside...might we...before it gets dark?" She was beginning to feel uncomfortable.
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 The Letter
She gazed up at the portrait of Josette that now rested above the mantel.
She had decided to place it in the room she understood Josette Du Pres’ Collins had used when living at Collinwood.
She had understood this from Barnabas some years ago; how he came by the information she did not know since it wasn’t in the Collins Family History.
www.juliahoffman.com /out/out2.htm   (1756 words)

  
 MSN Dating & Personals - 7 most romantic TV couples
Unfortunately, they had a child, and the show was doomed.
For a generation growing up in the late 60s, love was exemplified by a man who endured centuries as a vampire in pursuit of a seemingly endless series of reincarnations of his lost love Josette.
Often killing, torturing or imprisoning people in basements, Barnabas was unfailing in his love for a woman who, let's be honest, seemed awfully prone to jumping off cliffs.
msn.match.com /msn/article.aspx?articleid=2395&...&GT1=4159   (479 words)

  
 wind in the trees
Andre says, I am Andre du Pres and this is my daughter Josette!
I guess that she must have dyed it later on.
Josette and Angelique have an extended interchange in French as well.
members.fortunecity.com /amandastory/2004/01/winters-light-is-revised-to-page-235.html   (259 words)

  
 Episodes 1506-10   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Unless you are prepared to offer the innocence of Maggie Evans in exchange for the love of Josette Du Pres....
it is true Josette Du Pres has been freed and her spirit has returned to the land of the dead when I destroyed Brian.
We cut to Josette (Kathryn Leigh Scott) standing on the balcony of a large house.
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 Dark Shadows 2004: Barnabas Undead Forums - New Pilot pics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The pics are neat...but Marley Shelton as Victoria, IMO, wouldn't have worked, unless they were going to ditch the whole Victoria looks like Josette idea.
Well if you have seen the OS pics...with the red or blue backgrounds...you would know that the pic of B and V is vere reminiscent of those....promos from the Sixties...most of them are in the DS companion.
I agree with BB that Marley Shelton would be all wrong for Vicki, but Alec Newman looked great as Barnabas.
www.barnabasundead.com /forums/showthread.php?t=218   (907 words)

  
 Pomegranate Press - Dark Shadows Memories CD
Original Dark Shadows actress Kathryn Leigh Scott, who portrayed vampire Barnabas Collins' doomed fiancé Josette Du Prés, as well as Collinsport Inn waitress Maggie Evans, offers a warm and fascinating recollection of her first professional acting job starring in the 1966-71 Gothic daytime drama that has become a legendary cult television classic.
On two full-length compact discs, you'll hear Kathryn recall the fear and excitement of "live on tape" daily television plus humorous anecdotes about her co-stars.
She also provides a candid discussion of the pop culture phenomenon that Dark Shadows became, as well as the undying passion the show commands over thirty years later.
www.pompress.com /titles/dark/ds_memories_cd.html   (138 words)

  
 Dark Shadows - 1991 Series Characters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
COLLINS: David Collins (1991) Roger's son [Joseph Gordon-Levitt] COLLINS: Jeremiah Collins (1790) Barnabas' younger brother, marries Josette du Pres, dies in duel as a result of Angelique's witchcraft [Adrian Paul]
du Pres, Andre (1790) Josette's father [Michael Cavanaugh]
du Pres, Countess Natalie (1790) Andre's sister [Barbara Steele]
www.darkshadows.com /characterlist1991.shtml   (352 words)

  
 Tapestry of Memories
The other day he addressed me as Countess du Pres—a woman who lived at Collinwood in the late eighteenth century.
She was the aunt of Josette du Pres—a learned aristocrat who had to flee her estates outside Paris with the coming of the Terror.
In a library in Bangor I found a reference to a rare work in French—Feuillets de ma vie by la Comtesse Natalie Marie Amethyste du Pres—and a small portrait of her.
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 house of Dark Shadows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Despite Barnabas' attack upon her, Carolyn falls in love with him, neglecting her fiance, Todd.
But when Barnabas spies Collins' governess, Maggie Evans, at the party, he is instantly mesmorized by her because she reminds him of Josette du Pres, his great love from the 18th century whom he lost.
To complicate matters further, Maggie is in turn in love with Jeff Clark, a local artist.
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 DARK_SHADOWS (LIVES ON) -- THE VERY BEST GOTHIC WEB SITE ON THE NET.
Rosemary McNamara Ghost of Josette du Pres Collins(1967)
Natalie Norwick(Norwich) Ghost of Ruby Tate(1968), Ghost of Josette duPre Collins(1968-1969), Stand-in for Edith Collins(1897), Stand-in for Judith Collins Trask(1897)
Florence Stanley Ghost of Josette du Pres Collins(1966), Sobbing Woman(1966-1967), Voice of Ghost of Josette(1968)
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 Pomegranate Press - About Pomegranate Press
Upon graduating from New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Kathryn landed the ingenue lead in the classic Gothic daytime drama DARK SHADOWS.
During the four-year run of the series (ABC, 1966-1971) Kathryn played four roles: Maggie Evans, Josette du Pres, Lady Kitty Hampshire and Rachel Drummond.
Realizing that the enduring and innovative television series still had a tremendous following in syndicated reruns throughout the world, Kathryn wrote MY SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES OF DARK SHADOWS to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the show.
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