Paulette Dubost started her career at the ballet school of the Paris Opera. At 17 she moved to the operette. From the 1930s onward she also played in films. In 1938/39 she played her two most remarkable roles, as Ginette in Hotel du Nord and as the chamber maid Lisette in
La regle du jeu. In the 1960s she focussed on the theatre, but the 1970s marked a new carreer as a televions actress. Dubost appeared in over 250 films, she died in 2011 at the age of 100.