Paulette Dubost

Paulette Dubost (8 October 1910 – 21 September 2011) was a French actress who began her career at the age of 7 at the Paris Opera.

She appeared in over 250 films and worked with such directors as Marcel Carné, Jean Renoir, Max Ophüls (Le Plaisir 1952 and Lola Montès, 1955) and François Truffaut. Her best-known role, though, is as Lisette in Renoir's The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu, 1939). Originally intended to be a small role offering only a couple of days' work, the extent of her part grew during the four-month shooting schedule.

She died three weeks before her 101st birthday.

Select filmography

• J'ai quelque chose à vous dire (1931) (short)
• Amourous Adventure (1932)
• Dans les rues (1933)
• Le Bonheur (Happiness, Marcel L'Herbier, 1934)
• The Lie of Nina Petrovna (1937)
• Hôtel du Nord (Marcel Carné, 1938)
• La Règle du jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)
• Bécassine (1940)
• Six heures à perdre (1947)
• The Chocolate Girl (1950)
• Four in a Jeep (1951)
• La fête à Henriette (Holiday for Henrietta, Julien Duvivier, 1952)
• Le Plaisir (House of Pleasure, 1952)
• Mon frangin du Sénégal (1953)
• Mon frangin du Sénégal (1954)

• Lola Montès (1955)
• The French, They Are a Funny Race (Preston Sturges,1955)
• Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)
• Taxi, Roulotte et Corrida (1958)
• Les Mystères de Paris (1962)
• Black Humor (1965)
• Viva Maria! (1965)
• The Last Metro (François Truffaut 1980)
• Le Tiroir secret (1986) (TV series)
• May Fools (Milou en mai, 1990)
• Augustin, King of Kung-Fu (1999)