#jean marais

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Extract from a letter (dating to 1939), which is featured in the book Jean Cocteau: Lettres à Jean Marais "Jean Cocteau: Letters to Jean Marais" (Éditions Albin Michel, 1987).

The text was translated by Alexandra Trone, for Rictor Norton's book My Dear Boy (1998).

[pinqui]

ORPHEUS (1950) ↳ dir. JEAN COCTEAU

[davidhudson]

Jean Marais, December 11, 1913 – November 8, 1998.

With Jean Cocteau. Photo by Cecil Beaton.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Jean Marais and Josette Day - Beauty and the Beast (1946)

[weirdlookindog]

Sanjulian (b. 1940) - La Belle et la Bête

[mrmousetolliver]

Jean Marais (c.1938) photographed by Raymond Voinquel Jean Marais was a French actor, film director, theatre director, painter, sculptor, visual artist, writer and photographer. He was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1996 for his contribution to French cinema.

[cinemaastimegoesby]

La Belle et la Bête (1946). dir. Jean Cocteau

[louisa-malchance]

Etude n-19, dessin

[of-fear-and-love]

La Belle et la Bête / Beauty and the Beast (1946)

[konglindorm]

I just think it’s so funny that in Cocteau’s version of batb he cast his boyfriend as *both* of beauty’s love interests. The local guy she doesn’t like and the human version of the beast are the same actor. It’s like if the Disney movie had their whole big transformation sequence, and the Beast came out the other end just completely identical to Gaston. Like, how is beauty even supposed to cope with that? She’s just committed to spending her life with a guy who looks like a monster, after spending most of the movie refusing to marry him, and now he suddenly looks like the other guy she didn’t want to marry? This is such a ridiculous situation. 10/10 casting decision. Funniest possible way to resolve things. Love how Cocteau throws this at us and then immediately ends the movie, zero time for beauty to even process. Fantastic.

[jiz-henry]

[honeygleam]

donkey skin (1970) dir. jacques demy

[filmswithoutfaces]

Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) 1946 | Jean Cocteau

[citizenscreen]

Jean Marais and Josette Day for Jean Cocteau’s LA BELLE ET LA BETE (1946) (Beauty and the Beast)

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[moon-kissed-films]

Stills from the French movie Peau d'Ane "Donkey skin" (1970), adapted from Charles Perrault's literary fairytale of the same name.