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with 5 original photographs from the film

La Belle et la Bête – Journal d’un film

1946190 x 220 mm

FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF 25 NUMBERED COPIES on Rives.

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FIRST EDITION.

ONE OF 25 NUMBERED EXEMPLIES on Rives (after 8 copies on Hollande, total print run 108 copies).

During the war, Jean Cocteau reread Beauty and the Beasta tale by Madame Leprince de Beaumont, and decided to adapt it for the screen. After a first draft in March 1944, the film, which was initially to be produced by Gaumont, was shot in 1945 with the help of René Clément near Senlis and in Touraine. It was shown for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival in September 1946, before its national release on 29 October 1946. Cocteau, who had scrupulously recorded all the events of the filming in a diary, published the diary in the following year. Diary of a film from September 1946.

We enclose 5 ORIGINAL BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS of Jean Marais and Josette Day in Jean Cocteau's film (1946). Period silver prints by G. R. ALDO, (1905-1953), 270 × 205 mm. One of them is reproduced in the book opposite page 209.

Nice outfit.

Paris,Janin,1946. Softcover190 x 220 mm,250 pp.

Bio

Jean Cocteau

Born on 5 July 1889 in Maisons-Laffitte and died on 11 October 1963 in his house in Milly-la-Forêt. French poet, graphic designer, draftsman, playwright and filmmaker, member of the Académie française from 1955.

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