Beauty and the Beast: Diary of a Film

by Jean Cocteau

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Nothing to do with the Disney film (ignore the editions list!) A superb account of the difficulties of making a wonderful film - the effortless magic that pervades the Beast's castle seems even more amazing when you learn the struggles with which it was created. (

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Jean Marais

Jean Cocteau

Josette Day

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La belle et la bête (1946 ∙ IMDb)

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In a land none other than that vague country of fairy tales, there lives a merchant who has been ruined by losing his ships, laden with merchandise, in a storm.

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This is Cocteau's account of the making of his classic 1946 French film, Beauty and the Beast (La belle et la bête), widely considered one of the finest fantasy films of all time.

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