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    Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (UK: /ˈkɒktoʊ/ KOK-toh, US: /kɒkˈtoʊ/ kok-TOH, French: [ʒɑ̃ mɔʁis øʒɛn klemɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963)...
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    over 100 films and was the lover, muse and friend of acclaimed director Jean Cocteau. In 1996, he was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his contributions...
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    The Jean Cocteau Cinema is a historic movie theater (formerly the Collective Fantasy Cinema) located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. It is currently...
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    The Jean Cocteau Museum/Séverin Wunderman Collection is a museum in Menton, on the French Riviera, in the Alpes-Maritimes department. Dedicated to the...
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    all come true for Cocteau: his 1918 publication, Le Coq et l'Arlequin, is said to have kicked it off. After World War I, Jean Cocteau and Les Six began...
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  • filmmaker Jean Cocteau: Cocteau, Jean (1992). The Art of Cinema. Marion Boyars. ISBN 978-0-7145-2947-9. Gilson, René (1969). Jean Cocteau. Crown Publishers...
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    having also worked with Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, and Jacques Rivette, as well as other notable directors such as Jean Cocteau, Pier Paolo Pasolini,...
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  • Jean Cocteau Repertory (often called "the Cocteau" or "Cocteau Rep") was a nonprofit resident theatre company in the Bowery area of East Village, Manhattan...
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    The Jean Cocteau House was the residence of the French poet, artist, playwright and film maker Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), which he purchased with the film...
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  • Testament of Orpheus (category Films directed by Jean Cocteau)
    starring Jean Cocteau, who plays himself as an 18th-century poet, the film includes cameo appearances by Pablo Picasso, Jean Marais, Charles Aznavour, Jean-Pierre...
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  • Beauty and the Beast (1946 film) (category Films directed by Jean Cocteau)
    fantasy film directed by French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. Starring Josette Day as Belle and Jean Marais as the Beast, it is an adaptation of the 1757...
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    JEAN COCTEAU English Translation 25 February 1924 DEAR NINA I am still sick and without courage. Call me in the morning. With heart, JEAN COCTEAU" Les...
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  • Barbette served as an inspiration to a number of artists, including Jean Cocteau and Man Ray. Barbette (birth name cited as Vander Clyde and Vander Clyde...
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    of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he helped fund Meow Wolf and owns the Jean Cocteau Cinema. The city commemorates March 29 as George R. R. Martin Day. George...
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  • Les Parents terribles (category Plays by Jean Cocteau)
    Les Parents terribles is a 1938 French play written by Jean Cocteau. Despite initial problems with censorship, it was revived on the French stage several...
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  • "shocking pink". Schiaparelli famously collaborated with Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival, she is regarded as one of...
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    Cocteau Twins were a Scottish rock band active from 1979 to 1997. They were formed in Grangemouth by Robin Guthrie (guitars, drum machine) and Will Heggie...
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    directed by Patrick Kennedy and based on the play La voix humaine by Jean Cocteau, for which she won Best Actress at the Oxford International Film Festival...
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    death in 1984. He was part of a number of artistic circles that included Jean Cocteau, Raymond Radiguet, Pablo Picasso, Georges Auric, Erik Satie, Blaise Cendrars...
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    Rothschild, Charlie Chaplin, Rainier III, David Niven, Somerset Maugham, Jean Cocteau, Lady Kenmare and Roderick Cameron, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton...
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  • The Blood of a Poet (category Films directed by Jean Cocteau)
    (French: Le sang d'un poète) (1932) is an avant-garde film directed by Jean Cocteau, financed by Charles de Noailles and starring Enrique Riveros, a Chilean...
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  • Orpheus (film) (category Films directed by Jean Cocteau)
    UK) is a 1950 French film directed by Jean Cocteau and starring Jean Marais. It is the central part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The...
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    considered one of Les Six, a group of artists informally associated with Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie. Before he turned 20 he had orchestrated and written incidental...
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    (1994) and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999). French actor Jean Reno has appeared in several films by Besson, including Le dernier combat...
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  • Les Parents terribles (1948 film) (category Films based on works by Jean Cocteau)
    terribles is a 1948 film adaptation directed by Jean Cocteau from his own stage play Les Parents terribles. Cocteau used the same cast who had appeared in a...
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    resembles Jean Cocteau's 1930 film Blood of a Poet in its representation of a subjective point of view. Meshes of the Afternoon and Cocteau's film also...
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  • Les Enfants terribles (film) (category Films based on works by Jean Cocteau)
    Strange Ones) is a 1950 French film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, with a screenplay adapted by Jean Cocteau from his 1929 novel of the same name about...
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    originality. Among them were the group known as Les Six. A meeting with Jean Cocteau in 1915 led to the creation of the ballet Parade (1917) for Serge Diaghilev...
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  • and advertising company The Bastion Museum, dedicated to the work of Jean Cocteau in Menton, France Bastion host, a computer on a network specifically...
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  • Les Enfants terribles (category Works by Jean Cocteau)
    Les Enfants Terribles is a 1929 novel by Jean Cocteau, published by Editions Bernard Grasset. It concerns two siblings, Elisabeth and Paul, who isolate...
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