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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"Beauty and the Beast" is a fairy tale written by the French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published anonymously in 1740 in La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins.
Beauty and the Beast (1946 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 de Beaumont and published as part of a fairy tale anthology. The plot of Cocteau's film revolves around Belle's father…
Beauty releases the prince from his beastly curse. Artwork from Europa's Fairy Book, by John Batten.
Illustration by Warwick Goble.
A Serbian translation from 1787, published in the old Slavonic-Serbian literary language, translated by Avram Mrazović.
Painting of Petrus Gonsalvus (c. 1580).