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Beauty and the Beast: Directed by Jean Cocteau, René Clément. With Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parély, Nane Germon. A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Jean Cocteau, René Clément
- 1947-12-23
Beauty and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bête – also the UK title) is a 1946 French 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 1757 story Beauty and the Beast, written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont and published as part of a fairy tale anthology.
Marais was the male lead in Voyage Without Hope (1943) with Simone Renant directed by Christian-Jaque. Christian-Jaque also directed Marais in Carmen (1944) with Viviane Romance. This was one of the most popular films in France when it was released. Beauty and the Beast and Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau’s sublime adaptation of Mme. Leprince de Beaumont’s fairy-tale masterpiece—in which the pure love of a beautiful girl melts the heart of a feral but gentle beast—is a landmark of motion picture fantasy, with unforgettably romantic performances by Jean Marais and Josette Day. The spectacular visions of enchantment, desire, and death in Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la ...
- Avenant/Beast/Prince Ardent
- 1 min
Jul 26, 2023 · Beauty and the Beast (1946) Josette Day as Beauty and Jean Marais as the Beast in Beauty and the Beast. Possibly the most exquisite film to emerge in the wake of wartime deprivation, Jean Cocteau ...
Mar 23, 2017 · Marais would be cast in the role of the Beast/Prince, and also of Avenant, Beauty's initial suitor. Marais suggested the classic fairy tale by Mme Leprince de Beaumont as Cocteau's first feature-length narrative film as both an entertaining diversion for a country deeply wounded, as well as a vehicle for his own acting triumph, performing three ...
"Blood of a Poet" was an art film made by a poet. "Beauty and the Beast" was a poetic film made by an artist. He made it at the urging of Marais, his lover of many years, who was tall and imposing, with an extraordinary profile and matinee idol looks--a contrast to the skinny, chain-smoking Cocteau, whose months of shooting the film were made a misery because of a painful skin disease that ...
