| Sign | |
| Born | Jul 5, 1889 Maisons-Laffitte, France |
| Died | Oct 11, 1963 Milly-la-Foret, France |
| Age | Died at 74 |
Jean Cocteau | |
| Job | Actor, Director |
| Top Roles | Narrator, Himself, Himself, , Himself |
| Top Genres | Drama, Short Films, Fantasy, Biographical, Romance |
| Top Topics | Romance (Drama) |
| Top Collaborators | Charles Aznavour, Yul Brynner, Capucine |
| Shares birthday with | Edward Woods, Shirley Knight, Warren Oates see more.. |
Jean Cocteau Overview:
Director, Jean Cocteau, was born on Jul 5, 1889 in Maisons-Laffitte, France. Cocteau died at the age of 74 on Oct 11, 1963 in Milly-la-Foret, France .
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Beauty and the Beast, 1946,
By Aaron West on Apr 30, 2015 From Criterion BluesApr 30 Posted by aaronwest When Beauty and the Beast was in production, the Second World War was in its final throes. The entire European landscape was ravaged and devastated by the war machine, and France had been under German occupation. Even though many filmmakers fled or were exiled, the indust... Read full article
Beauty and the Beast, 1946,
By Aaron West on Apr 30, 2015 From Criterion BluesApr 30 Posted by aaronwest When Beauty and the Beast was in production, the Second World War was in its final throes. The entire European landscape was ravaged and devastated by the war machine, and France had been under German occupation. Even though many filmmakers fled or were exiled, the indust... Read full article
Beauty and the Beast, 1946,
By Aaron West on Apr 30, 2015 From Criterion BluesApr 30 Posted by aaronwest When Beauty and the Beast was in production, the Second World War was in its final throes. The entire European landscape was ravaged and devastated by the war machine, and France had been under German occupation. Even though many filmmakers fled or were exiled, the indust... Read full article
Addresses the Year 2000 (1962, )
on May 24, 2012 From The Stop ButtonThe title sort of gives away addresses… the year 2000, but not really. The short, conceptually, is meant to be preserved in a time capsule and projected to young people in the year 2000. Cocteau is very specific about the audience; he ostensibly hopes they will be less materialist... Read full article
...born July 5, 1889...
By The Lady Eve on Jul 5, 2011 From Lady Eve's Reel Life, French filmmaker/poet/writer/artist and more (dramatist, boxing manager...), was born July on 5, 1889, into a prominent and bourgeois family in Maissones-Lafitte - a village not far from Paris. His father, an attorney and amateur artist, took his own life when the boy was just nine; yo... Read full article
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