title: Paulette Pax
text: # Paulette Pax
  
  Paulette Pax (née Paulette Ménard born in 1887 in Russia – died in 1942 in Paris) was a French actress, theatre director and scenographer.
  
  She co-directed the Théâtre de l'Œuvre from 1929 until her death succeeding Bella Rossellini.
  
  ## Theatre
  
  ### Comedian
  
  Selection of plays interpreted by Paulette Pax:
  
  * 1920: La Couronne de carton by Jean Sarment
  * 1921: La Gloire by Maurice Rostand
  * 1921: Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, directed by Sacha Pitoëff
  * 1922: La Mort de Molière by Maurice Rostand
  * 1923: L'Éveil du fauve by Edward Knoblauch
  * 1924: Jeanne d'Arc by Charles Péguy, directed by Fernand Crommelynck
  * 1925: Tripes d'or by Fernand Crommelynck, directed by Louis Jouvet
  * 1926: Sardanapalus, directed by Georges Pitoëff
  * 1926: L'Absolution by José Germain Drouilly
  * 1926: Comme ci by Luigi Pirandello, directed by Georges Pitoëff
  * 1927: Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores by George Bernard Shaw
  * 1929: Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, directed by Georges Pitoëff
  * 1935: La Complainte de Pranzini et de Thérèse de Lisieux by Henri Ghéon, directed by Georges Pitoëff
  * 1936: Dame Nature by André Birabeau, sous la direction de Paulette Pax, at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre
  * 1939: The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, directed by Georges Pitoëff
  * 1941: L'Amazone aux bas bleus by Albert Boussac de Saint-Marc, directed by Paulette Pax
  
  ### Theatre director
  
  * 1932: L'Hermine by Jean Anouilh
  * 1933: Milmort by Paul Demasy
  * 1934: Une femme libre by Armand Salacrou, mise en scène Paulette Pax
  * 1935: Dame nature by André Birabeau, at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre
  * 1936: Un homme comme les autres by Armand Salacrou, with Jean-Louis Barrault, at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre
  * 1937: Gli indifferenti by Alberto Moravia
  * 1938: Je vivrai un grand amour by Steve Passeur
  * 1938: Le Jardin d'Ispahan by Jean-Jacques Bernard
  
  ## Filmography
  
  * 1938: The Novel of Werther by Max Ophüls as aunt Emma
  * 1938: Gibraltar by Fedor Ozep: Mme Nichols
  * 1939: The White Slave by Marc Sorkin as Safète's friend
  
  ## Publication
  
  * Journal d'une comédienne française: sous la terreur bolchevik, 1917–1918.
  