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Jean Cocteau Film Posters
Orphee
11 in. x 17 in.
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Jean Cocteau

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Orphic Trilogy
The superb three-disc dvd box set of Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy contains: The Blood of a Poet (1930, 50 min.), Orpheus (1949, 95 min.) & Testament of Orpheus (1959, 80 min.)
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The Blood of a Poet | Orpheus
Testament of Orpheus

Beauty & the Beast
Classic dvd 1947 movie by: Jean Cocteau
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The making of Beauty & the Beast

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Biography
Jean Cocteau
(1889 - 1963)
Click here for a detailed look at Cocteau's life.

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Cat
Jean Cocteau
Click here to see the famous Cocteau cat.

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Filmography
Click here for the most detailed look at Cocteau films ever with details of the making of individual films!

Individual Films:

Beauty & the Beast

Full details (1950)

Blood of a Poet

Full details (1930)

Eternal Return

Full details (1943)

Les Enfants Terribles

Full details (1949)

Les Parents Terribles

Full details (1948)

Orphée

Full details (1949)

Le Testament d'Orphée

Full details (1960)

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Jean Cocteau Actors:

Josette Day

Real name: Josette Dagory, was born on the July 31, 1914 in Paris. At the age of five she appeared in her first movie...read more

Madeleine Sologne

Madeleine Vouillon was born in 1912 at Ferté-Imbault in Loir-et-Cher...read more

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Jean Cocteau Composers:

Georges Auric

As a young musician, Auric became friends with Erik Satie, he studied under D'Indy and attended the Paris Conservatory...read more

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  Classic Film Music (Orphee)
  
  

  Erik Satie
  
  Erik Alfred Leslie Satie (1866-1925); born May 17, 1866 in Honfleur, Basse-Normandie, France, Erik Satie was a music composer, and a performing pianist...read more

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  Best of Erik Satie

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Jeannot

Jean Marais (real name: Jean Villain-Marais), or "Jeannot" as Cocteau soon began calling him, was twenty-four when the two men met...read more

Jean Marais: Website | Shop

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Lee Miller

Lee Miller, born in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in 1907, lived many lives before her death from cancer in a Sussex farmhouse in 1976. She had been involved with many of the period's major artists, including Jean Cocteau...read more

• Lee Miller: Books | Prints

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The Devil in the Flesh

Raymond Radiguet was born on June 18th, 1903; he died, without knowing it, on December 12th, 1923, after a miraculous life. The literary tribunal has found his heart arid...read more

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  Devil in the Flesh | Count d'Orgel
  Le Diable au Corps
  Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel

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Cocteau & Picasso

Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau knew one another for nearly fifty years, and frequently worked and played together. They met in 1915 following Picasso's departure from martre, where Cocteau's friend, the poet Max Jacob, had shared an atelier with the painter...read more

• Picasso: Books | Posters

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First Home

La Maison du Bailli, the old house bought by Jean Marais and Jean Cocteau in 1947, was the first home the poet owned. He was deeply pleased, at fifty-eight, finally to have, as he called it, "a frame."...read more

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Art

New Gallery

Click here for thumbnail gallery of Jean Cocteau drawings and paintings

Essay on the visual art of Jean Cocteau

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Printed Word

Click here for a complete guide to all of Cocteau's published work. Included is a filmography & date of every published work

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• Updates - March 2004

  Updated Lee Miller Biography site
  New Lee Miller Shop site added

  New Picasso Shop site added

  New Josette Day page added
  New Erik Satie page added
  New Georges Auric page added
  New Madeleine Sologne page added
  New Jean Marais Paintings added
  New Cocteau Book Page added
  New Cocteau Video/Dvd Page added
  New Jean Marais Website live

• Art Sites - March 2004
  Ansel Adams
  Frank Auerbach | Francis Bacon
  Georg Baselitz | Basquiat
  Joseph Beuys | Marc Chagall
  Christo | Leonor Fini
  Salvador Dali | Hundertwasser
  Jasper Johns | Frida Kahlo
  Anselm Kiefer
  Roy Lichtenstein | Man Ray
  Henri Matisse
  Miro | Angus McBean
  Egon Schiele | Andy Warhol

  Diego Rivera
  Remedios Varo
  Leonora Carrington
  Valentine Hugo
  Meret Oppenheim
  

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