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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.
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
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.
- Avenant/Beast/Prince Ardent
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Dec 26, 1999 · Beauty and the Beast. 96 minutes ‧ NR ‧ 1946. Roger Ebert. December 26, 1999. 7 min read. Before Disney’s 1991 film and long before the Beast started. signing autographs in Orlando, Jean Cocteau filmed “Beauty and the Beast”. in 1946, in France. It is one of the most magical of all films.
Mar 23, 2017 · With Beauty and the Beast, Jean Cocteau found a uniquely personal response to the post-war world. It was a strange time to be making such a stylized, fantastic film, and a particularly brazen act given his own tarnished reputation.
Jul 26, 2020 · Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946) Jeremy Carr. July 2020. CTEQ Annotations on Film. Issue 95. Scrawling the opening credits on a chalkboard, Jean Cocteau begins his 1946 romantic fantasy La Belle et la Bête ( Beauty and the Beast) by immediately breaking the fourth wall.
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The 1946 Jean Cocteau film Beauty and the Beast is ostensibly an adaptation of a classic French fairy tale written in 1757. As the accompanying chart shows, Cocteau made numerous...