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Jean Cocteau

Directing · Born July 5, 1889 · Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along with other avant-garde artists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the algebra of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde.[citation needed] His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María Félix, Édith Piaf (whom he cast in one of his one-act plays entitled Le Bel Indifferent in 1940), and Raymond Radiguet.

Movies with Jean Cocteau

• Beauty and the Beast (1946) — The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
• To Each His Own Cinema (2007) — Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
• Orpheus (1950) — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• The Image Book (2018) — (archive footage)
• Testament of Orpheus (1960) — Le poète
• Morceaux de Cannes (2021)
• The Blood of a Poet (1932) — Bit Part (uncredited)
• The Century Is Fifty (1950) — Self
• La Malibran (1944) — Alfred de Musset
• A Night at the Opera (2020) — Self (archive footage)
• Callas Assoluta (2007) — Self (archive footage)
• Art of Style: Jean Cocteau (2018) — Self (archive footage)