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Babette

American  
[ba-bet] / bæˈbɛt /

noun

  1. a first name, form of Barbara.


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In 1959, Brigitte - after several love affairs - married the actor Jacques Charrier, with whom she starred in Babette Goes To War.

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025

The basic narrative structure remains the same with Adam Driver’s Jack and Greta Gerwig’s Babette raising their children while going about their day-to-day lives in a seemingly sleepy college town of yesteryear.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2022

Soon Jack, Babette and the kids are on the run in their station wagon, with death looming in the rearview mirror and some vintage Spielberg riffs on the road ahead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2022

Adam Driver plays Hitler studies professor Jack Gladney, and Greta Gerwig is his wife, Babette, in this dark comedy about an American family after a rail car accident releases chemical waste over their town.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2022

“Guess what, Sunshine? I have a good job and a nice house. I’m living with a lady named Babette, and she has a son whose name is Drew.”

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

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