Beauty and the Beast is a 1946 French surrealist romantic fantasy film directed by French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. Starring Josette Day as Belle and Jean Marais as the Beast, it is an adaptati
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Page of the original scenario on display in the Jean Cocteau House in Milly-la-Foret, France
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Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost avant-garde artists of the 20th century and h
Beauty and the Beast (1946 film)
…and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bête – also the UK title) is a 1946 French surrealist romantic fantasy film directed by French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. Starring Josette Day as Belle and Jean Marais as the Beast, it is an adaptation of the 1756 story Beauty and the Beast, written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince…
Cocteau in 1923
Amedeo Modigliani, Jean Cocteau, 1916, Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection, on long-term loan to the Princeton University Art Museum
A portrait of Cocteau by Federico de Madrazo y Ochoa, c. 1910–1912
Érik Satie's Parade, ballet on a scenario by Cocteau