Jean Marais :: Site Index

Header Photo: Jean Marais - Histoires de ma vie, bronze

Essential Viewing: Jean Marais - Coffret 100 ans. View Dvd boxset cover image. Ruy Blas, Les Chouans, Julietta, Voyage sans espoir, L'Éternel retour, Orphée, Futures vedettes, La Belle et la Bête.

Jean Marais:
01/ Biography (English)
02/ Marais @ 100 - Magazine Covers Smartphone Page (English)
03/ Rarities (English)
04/ Filmography (English, French)
05/ Le Potier (English, French)
06/ Ruy Blas (English, French)
07/ Jean Marais par Jean Cocteau (English, French)
08/ Dalida & Jean Marais (English, French)
09/ Jean Genet & Jean Marais (English, French)
10/ Bacchus de Jean Cocteau (English, French)
11/ L'appenti Fakir (English, French)
12/ La Maison du Bailli (English)
13/ Mila Parely (English, French)
14/ Georges Reich (English, French)
15/ Les Yeux (English, French)
16/ La Belle et la Bete UK Dvd
17/ Orphee UK Dvd
18/ Jean Marais Shop
19/ The Paintings of Jean Marais
20/ Gallery of Prints & Posters
21/ La Belle et la Bete Film Review
22/ La Belle et la Bete Gallery
23/ Orphee Film Review
24/ Orphee Gallery
25/ Eternal Return Film Review
26/ Les Parents Terribles Film Review
27/ Le Testament d'Orphee Film Review
28/ L'Ecrivain - Illustrateur
29/ Lithographies
30/ Bronzes
31/ Les Contes
32/ Television Appearances
33/ Interview de Jean Marais Sur Sa Peinture
34/ Lee Miller
35/ Photographs
36/ Expositions de Jean Marais
37/ Les Arbres du Piquey
38/ Je Suis Peintre
39/ Valse 1900
40/ Cocteau - Marais
41/ Pygmalion, Bernard Shaw
42/ Le Disciple du Diable, Bernard Shaw
40/ Oepide - Roi, Jean Cocteau
41/ Maria Casares
42/ Josette Day
43/ Madeleine Sologne
44/ Georges Auric
45/ Erik Satie
46/ Raymond Radiguet
47/ Pablo Picasso & Jean Cocteau
48/ Pablo Picasso
49/ Jean Cocteau
50/ Search Site
51/ Jean Marais Books and Dvds available @ amazon.com
52/ Advertise here

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Jean Marais (1913 - 1998) ~ Biography

Jean Marais (real name: Jean Villain-Marais), or "Jeannot" as Cocteau soon began calling him, was twenty-four when the two men met. Marais had been stage-struck since he was a boy in Cherbourg, but had received no encouragement from his family. Childhood had been one disaster after another. When he was born, on the eve of World War 1, his mother refused to see him. Her only daugher had died a few days before. When Marais' father returned from the army, five-year-old, who didn't remember him, asked his mother: "Who is this dumbbell that keeps pestering me?" His father slapped him, his mother promptly packed her three children off to their grandmother's, and Jean grew up fatherless...more (English).

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What a joy in putting this site dedicated to Jean Marais together. Heavily sourced from the outstanding book on Jean Marais, Jean Marais : l'oeuvre plastique, this is the must have book for anybody interested in the life, the work and the art of Jean Marais.

It has taken alot of time and work (the translations have proved time consuming as my French has been tested but I feel it's worthwhile as outside of France his work deserves a bigger audience as does this book) and while your contributions by buying through amazon.com do help a bit as do your buying items I have for sale from time to time they don't really cover even the running costs of the site.

Therefore, if you have enjoyed the site and would like to make a contribution then it would mean alot and be gratefully received no matter how big or small. Just the thought that other people have gained something from this site - well, it's the best feeling.

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Marais @ 100 :: Magazine Covers Smartphone Page

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2013 sees the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jean Marais. To mark this milestone started adding magazine covers featuring the great man from the 1940s onwards onto a page which is best viewed as a smartphone page. The objective is to have a scan of every magazine he features on. You can view what I started here (English).

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Jean Marais :: Rarities

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La Belle et la Bete Posters for sale
La Belle et la Bete Gallery
Orphee Gallery

Jean Marais Ceramique

Jean Marais Ceramique
Jean Marais Store (English).

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Jean Marais :: Filmography

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  • L'epervier, 1933
  • Dans les rues, 1934
  • Le scandale, 1934
  • L'aventurier, 1934
  • Le bonheur, 1934
  • Les hommes nouveaux, 1936
  • Nuit de feu, 1936
  • Pavilion brule, 1941
  • Carmen, 1942
  • More (English, French)

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    Jean Marais :: Le Potier

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    Passant du poids de sa reputation de "coqueluche du public" a celui des incretitudes, Jean Marais ne sauve que par un travail inlassable. La decouverte de la poterie est l'occasion d'une nouvelle quete, d'une nouvelle aventure...more (English, French).

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    Jean Marais :: Ruy Blas

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    Jean n'immortalise pas Marais sur cette toile mais Ruy Blas, le personage qui l'a intensement habite.
    Pourquoi cette main sort-elle du cadre?
    Pour donner plus de vie au personnage?
    Pour sortir, jouer, entrer en communication avec nous?
    Ne pas repondre a cette question: il va venir a nous et nous serons sur la scene avec
    Ruy Blas...more (English, French).

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    Jean Marais par Jean Cocteau

    jean marais jean cocteau painting

    Sensibilite, elegance, generosite dans ce portrait : hommage a l'ami, au poete et a l'homme!
    Le regard de Jean Cocteau sur fond de mythes et de quietudes romantiques de Milly-La-Foret, suit, veille et decide avec intelligence...more (English, French)

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    Jean Marais :: Dalida

    jean marais dalida painting

    "J'entends tourjours sa voix et le poids de ses silences."
    Au 22, rue Lepic, un restaurant italien, 'Au Moulin de la Galette', recoit beaucoup d'artistes et de citoyens de Montmartre"
    ...more (English, French).

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    Jean Marais :: Jean Genet

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    "Jean Marais est un homme prestigieux. Il est passe par toutes les disciplines de l'art et du theatre. Il les a toutes vecues dans leur globalite"...more (English, French)

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    Jean Marais :: Bacchus de Jean Cocteau

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    Jean-Claude Brialy, directeur des Bouffes Parisiens demande a Jean Marais de "remonter" Bacchus. Cyrille Gaudin sera Christine, Xavier Deluc, Haus, Raymond Jerome, sera le Cardinal, Francis Lemaire et Jean Pemeja incarneront l'eveque et le syndic...more (English, French).

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    Jean Marais :: L'Apprenti Fakir

    Jean Marais L'Apprenti Fakir

    Jouee en 1957 au theatre de la Porte Saint-Nartin. "L'idee me vint de creer un ballet pour Georges Reich. Il en revait. Le cinema me retenait en Italie aux cotes de Visconti. Alors, sur le tournage, entre les scenes, je griffonnais un projet de livret. Georges Reich le recut et me telephona, ravi "Je dois le faire reecrire car je n'ai pas une plume d'auteur", lui dis-je. "Non, me repondit-il, nous nous mettons au travail"...more (English, French).

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    Jean Marais :: La Maison du Bailli

    Jean Cocteau La Maison du Bailli

    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." The house lies at the end of a cul-de-sac in the tiny village of Milly-la-Foret. A narrow doorway in a stone wall opens into a garden with a millstream and a potager beyond. The cloistered atmosphere breathes a peace worlds distant from the Sodom and Gomorrah of the old days at the Hotel Welcome in Villefranche, at Toulon, or in Paris...more (English).

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    Jean Marais :: Mila Parely

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    "Mon amie du 'Lit a colonnes'."
    L'etonnante partenaire de "la Belle et la Bete", l'une des actrices les plus belles de son temps.
    Jean Marais commenca son portrait...mais comme pour Yvonne Nicolau, interrompit son travail. Amie fidele, elle espere qu'un jour il se remettra a l'ouvrage
    ...more (English, French).

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    Jean Marais :: Georges Reich

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    "L'ami de plus de dix ans...Contraint de ne plus bouger par une forte fievre, il restera a la Peniche puis sera la vedatte de l'Apprenti Fakir."
    Jean nous raconte qu'il travaille sur plusieurs toiles
    ...more (English, French).

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    Jean Marais :: Les Yeux

    Jean Marais Les Yeux

    Lorsque vous regardez les portraits dessines ou peints par Jean Marais, tout est dit dans les yeux. Ils transcrivent toute la personnalite qu'il a voulu comminiquer.

    Les yeux fenetres de l'amie sont pour lui le depart de tous ses portraits, c'est aussi l'attention et le regard qu'il porte a la decouverte de l'autre. Si vous observez l'artiste a l'ecoute d'un visiteur, vous verrez ses yeux s'egayer ou s'assombrir tres vite selon le sujet de discussion, selon son interlocuteur ou meme selon le temps qui passe...more (English, French).

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    Jean Marais:
    01/ Biography (English)
    02/ Marais @ 100 - Magazine Covers Smartphone Page (English)
    03/ Rarities (English)
    04/ Filmography (English, French)
    05/ Le Potier (English, French)
    06/ Ruy Blas (English, French)
    07/ Jean Marais par Jean Cocteau (English, French)
    08/ Dalida & Jean Marais (English, French)
    09/ Jean Genet & Jean Marais (English, French)
    10/ Bacchus de Jean Cocteau (English, French)
    11/ L'appenti Fakir (English, French)
    12/ La Maison du Bailli (English)
    13/ Mila Parely (English, French)
    14/ Georges Reich (English, French)
    15/ Les Yeux (English, French)
    16/ La Belle et la Bete UK Dvd
    17/ Orphee UK Dvd
    18/ Jean Marais Shop
    19/ The Paintings of Jean Marais
    20/ Gallery of Prints & Posters
    21/ La Belle et la Bete Film Review
    22/ La Belle et la Bete Gallery
    23/ Orphee Film Review
    24/ Orphee Gallery
    25/ Eternal Return Film Review
    26/ Les Parents Terribles Film Review
    27/ Le Testament d'Orphee Film Review
    28/ L'Ecrivain - Illustrateur
    29/ Lithographies
    30/ Bronzes
    31/ Les Contes
    32/ Television Appearances
    33/ Interview de Jean Marais Sur Sa Peinture
    34/ Lee Miller
    35/ Photographs
    36/ Expositions de Jean Marais
    37/ Les Arbres du Piquey
    38/ Je Suis Peintre
    39/ Valse 1900
    40/ Cocteau - Marais
    41/ Pygmalion, Bernard Shaw
    42/ Le Disciple du Diable, Bernard Shaw
    40/ Oepide - Roi, Jean Cocteau
    41/ Maria Casares
    42/ Josette Day
    43/ Madeleine Sologne
    44/ Georges Auric
    45/ Erik Satie
    46/ Raymond Radiguet
    47/ Pablo Picasso & Jean Cocteau
    48/ Pablo Picasso
    49/ Jean Cocteau
    50/ Search Site
    51/ Jean Marais Books and Dvds available @ amazon.com
    52/ Advertise here

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