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	Jean Marais : Biography (English)
		When Marais' father returned from the army, five-year-old, who didn't remember him, asked his mother: "Who is this dumbbell that keeps pestering me?" His father slapped him, his mother promptly packed her three children off to their grandmother's, and Jean grew up fatherless.
		According to Marais, his mother, whom he idolized and whom he nicknamed "Rosalie," was elegant and beautiful, stern but just, by turns tender and gruff.
		A poor student, Jean was dismissed from highschool when, to amuse his classmates, he masqueraded as a girl and encouraged a teacher to flirt with him.
	www.leninimports.com /jean_marais_bio.html (525 words)

	Jean Marais - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jean Marais, born Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais (December 11, 1913 - November 8, 1998) was a French actor, and the lover of Jean Cocteau.
		Jean Marais never hid nor flaunted his affair with Cocteau, which lasted several years but was already over before the shooting of The Beauty and the beast.
		Marais was actually bisexual, and later told in an interview that he had had an affair with his Beauty and the beast co-star Marie Déa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean_Marais (546 words)

	Jean Cocteau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker.
		To Cocteau's distress and Paley's life-long regret, the fetus was aborted.
		Cocteau's longest-lasting relationship was with the French actor Jean Marais, whom he cast in Beauty and the Beast.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean_Cocteau (745 words)

	Jean Marais / films / actor / acteur / biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Today, Jean Marais is regarded as the epitome of the swashbuckling romantic hero of French cinema – in short, France’s answer to Errol Flynn.
		Marais’ first stroke of luck came in 1937 when he met Jean Cocteau, the legendary French writer who would become a life-long friend of Marais and to whom Marais would owe most of his success.
		Marais’ sudden death in Cannes in November 1998, at the age of 85, shocked the French nation, but it served as a reminder of the immense contribution that he made to drama in general, and to French cinema in particular.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_jmarais.html (499 words)

	Fantômas / Fantomas 70 / 1964 / film review / André Hunebelle / Jean Marais / Louis de Funes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Jean Marais was given top billing in the duel role of Fantômas and the journalist Fandor.
		Whilst Marais is clearly perfect in the part of Fantômas, with his powerful physique and elegant movements, his impact on the film is lessened by his playing a far weaker character, Fandor.
		In spite of Jean Marais having two starring roles in the film, it is Louis de Funès who dominates the film, in his role as Juve, Fantômas’ mortal enemy.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_Fantomas_1964_rev.html (706 words)

	Tourisme location Marais poitevin gite hotel camping chambre d'hotes
		Gîte 2/4 personnes au coeur du marais vendéen.
		C'est au coeur du marais vendéen, face à une réserve naturelle et biologique et à proximité de la mer que Fabrice and Sylvie vous accueillent toute l'année dans leur gîte de 2/4 personnes.
		En passant vos vacances à Vouillé-les-Marais, vous découvrirez le marais avec de nombreux canaux, des peupliers, une faune et une flore abondante; dans le bourg, une fonderie miniature avec une démonstration de coulées de fonte, une fabrique de confitures, la huche du marais, un petit musée sur les objets d’autrefois.
	www.marais-poitevin.info (814 words)

	IDN Bands: MoShang
		Although he is slightly embarrassed to admit it, MoShang (aka Jean Marais) started his musical career as a choirboy in his native South Africa in the early 1980's.
		When Jean Marais moved to Taichung two years ago, he figured that the quickest way to get to grips with the unfamiliar city sounds was to take to the streets with his mini-disc player and record everything he heard.
		Jean Marais, oftewel MoShang, kom oorspronklik van Bellville af, lewe nou sy lewe uit in Taiwan, en maak musiek uit sy ondervindings in die Ooste.
	www.idnmusic.com /bands/moshang.html (911 words)

	Jean Marais : Index
		La Maison du Bailli, the old house bought by Jean Marais and Jean Cocteau in 1947, was the first home the poet owned.
		He was deeply pleased, at fifty-eight, finally to have, as he called it, "a frame." The house lies at the end of a cul-de-sac in the tiny village of Milly-la-Foret.
		Jean Marais commenca son portrait...mais comme pour Yvonne Nicolau, interrompit son travail.
	www.leninimports.com /jean_marais_index.html (913 words)

	French culture \| Cinema \| Jean Cocteau: Beauty and the Beast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Josette Day and Jean Marais shine in the definitive filmed version of the classic romantic tale, which has come to supplant the original fable in the modern imagination.
		In Christian Bérard's makeup, Jean Marais is a magnificent Beast; Beauty's self-sacrifice to him holds no more horror than a satisfying romantic fantasy should have.
		Eventually, however, she is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief.
	www.frenchculture.org /cinema/releases/cocteau/belle.html (557 words)

	His films are among France's most inventive
		Jean Cocteau, one of the greatest pan-artistic creators of the 20th century, championed the avant-garde in all branches of all arts -- poetry, theater, music, dance and (not least) cinema -- with superb advice for his own and subsequent generations:
		With Jean Marais, Frangois Perier, Maria Casares, Marie Dea.
		With Cocteau, Edouard Dermithe, Jean Marais, Maria Casares, Claudine Auger, Charles Aznavour, Lucia Bose, Yul Brynner, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Pablo Picasso, Roger Vadim.
	www.post-gazette.com /magazine/20001105film7.asp (1098 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Marais, Jean
		Jean Marais became one of the most celebrated stars of French movies, theater, and television partly because of the early sponsorship of writer and film director Jean Cocteau.
		Marais was born Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais on December 11, 1913 in Cherbourg to a shoplifting, sometimes violent, sometimes loving mother.
		Marais and Cocteau became partners in both their personal and their professional lives.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/marais_j.html (795 words)

	Jean Marais
		The extremely good-looking (some have called him beautiful) French actor Jean Marais was hardly a prize-winning performer in his formative years.
		Turned down by the Paris Conservatory, Marais took odd jobs to sustain his nighttime efforts as a stage bit player (one of the productions in which he appeared, Les Parents Terrible, would be filmed years later with Marais in the lead).
		After a long retirement, Jean Marais returned to moviemaking in the mid-1980s with choice character roles in such films as Parking (1985).
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P+45265 (364 words)

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		Day personifies the virginal Belle perfectly and Jean Marais was never better in any role than he is as the Beast, especially remarkable since he primarily relies on communicating through his eyes.
		Marais does a nice job with body language inside the animal suit even though he had no ballet or dance training.
		Further testament to Marais’ acting as the Beast is indicated by the fact that Cocteau once attempted to use another actor in the Beast outfit when Marais was ill, but junked that footage because it didn’t work.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/foreign_films/85243 (1012 words)

	The Fantômas Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Jean Marais, who played the double role of Fandor and Fantômas in Andre Hunebelle’s 1960s Fantômas film series, died on Sunday, November 8, 1998.
		Marais was born in Cherbourg on December 11, 1913, and as a boy moved to Paris with his mother and brother.
		Marais’ first starring role was in The Eternal Return, also known as Love Eternal, a 1943 film scripted by Cocteau.
	www.fantomas-lives.com /fanto4k.htm (279 words)

	News & Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Marais also appeared in Luchino Visconti's "La Notti Bianche" (1957) and worked with directors including Jean Renoir and Claude Lelouch, as well as starring in a series of swashbucklers for Andre Hunebelle, Louis de Funes and others, in which he performed all his own stunts.
		Although Marais determined to become an actor as a young boy, he was repeatedly rejected by drama schools in France and dropped out of school at 16.
		Like Cocteau, Marais was an artist in several media, including ceramics; he showed his paintings in 1995 and wrote several frank books about his life, including "Histoires de ma Vie" (1975), and a biography "L'Inconcevable Jean Cocteau." Marais is survived by his adopted son Serge.
	www.planetout.com /news/article.html?1998/11/10/5 (412 words)

	Beauty and the Beast
		The young actor Jean Marais became Cocteau's partner and muse in 1937, and it was he who suggested filming Beauty and the Beast.
		Marais recalled the evolution of the Beast in his autobiography, "For my mask we went to Pontet, an elderly gentleman, a real genius, one of those men who make you realize that one can be passionately in love with one's work, whatever it might be.
		Berard's fantastical effects and lavish costumes were enriched by the photography of Henri Alekan, giving, "the soft gleam of hand-polished old silver." After WWII, everything was in short supply and even collecting 12 white bed sheets without patches for the laundry scene was a struggle.
	www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDBeautyBeast.htm (667 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: Of Antidotes and Elixirs
		Beauty and the Beast was first conceived when Jean Marais, the distinguished French actor discovered by Cocteau, pitched the fairy tale idea to his mentor, who subsequently jumped on it as an artistic antidote to the horrors of World War II.
		Marais, who was seen by American audiences in his last film Stealing Beauty in 1996, scored the coup of playing the Beast, under a make-up job that took six hours to apply.
		When he tells Beauty never to look directly into his eyes (a command that she doesn't obey), he seems to be acknowledging, in an offhand fashion, one of the major focal points of his performance.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-12-20/screens_feature2.html (576 words)

	Liaison 1103 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		"Jean Cocteau and the Cinema:" a retrospective of works by one of the leading French artists of the 20th century.
		· Jean Cocteau: Self-portrait of an Unknown / Jean Cocteau: autoportrait d'un inconnu (1984; 66 min.).
		Les enfants terribles by Jean Cocteau December 1st at 6:00 p.m.
	www.consulfrance-chicago.org /french/english/liaison1103.htm (2085 words)

	Jean Cocteau
		Jean Cocteau was born in 1889 of moderately artistic, bourgeois parents.
		His companion at the time, Jean Marais, had achieved great success on the stage in Les Parents terribles and was desperate to become a film star.
		Jean Cocteau, Difficulty of Being, The, London, Peter Owen, 1966, p.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/04/cocteau.html (5159 words)

	Belle et la Bête, La Review (1946)
		Once upon a time, Belle (Josette Day) was the servant of her two cruel, older sisters now that their father (Marcel André) had lost most of his money and had to let their staff go.
		After introducing the family and Ludovic's friend Avenant (Jean Marais) who loves Belle but has his marriage proposal turned down because she's devoted to her parent, the film settles down into rich fantasy with the arrival of the father at the castle.
		First his horse is held behind self-closing doors in the castle stable, then he ventures beyond the front doors down a hallway lit by candelabra held by human hands emerging from the walls.
	www.thespinningimage.co.uk /cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1394 (469 words)

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		(real name: Jean Villain-Marais), or "Jeannot" as Cocteau soon began calling him, was twenty-four when the two men met.
		ears still singed by the curling iron Madame Marais used to beautify her son's reddish hair.
		Cocteau became his surrogate father, and he was Cocteau's surrogate son.
	hem.spray.se /kurterik/Jean_Marais.htm (495 words)

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		Jean Marais der Traum aller weiblichen Wesen dieser Erde war, was ich erst kurz vor
		Inzwischen war Jean Marais in meinem Leben Legende.
		Jean Marais versucht Rollen zu bekommen und wird Statist.
	oyla2.de /cgi-bin/designs/Ocker_3/index.cgi?page=text&id=98332708&... (807 words)

	MMI Special Report: Jean Cocteau at the Centre Pompidou, Paris
		Large double sided screen displays of memorable moments of his films include "La Belle et La Bette" 1946 with a close up of the exquisite beastly face of Jean Marais, and Josette Day wandering through the hallways of the castle where she has been traded for a rose.
		In this scene the dark angel Heurtebise (François Périer)and "Orpheé" (Jean Marais) pressed to the walls through the forces of gravity, pass by window makers, and suddenly are whisked away by the winds of 'Le Zon'.
		Photographs of Jean Cocteau through the ages, his incredible writing, and other artifacts of his magnificent life are all at the Pompidou to behold.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/jeancocteauatth-ms-128392543.html (504 words)

	Mistakes of Movies - Fantômas (1964)
		During the brawl, when Jean Marais receives a blow of jaw, one sees very clearly that it carries a protect-tooth.
		When we see Fantomas, we see that Fandor is not played by Jean Marais because of his hairs.
		When Fandor and Juve continue Fantômas in the motor bike, it is seen that it is not Jean Marais orders some because the driver is much taller.
	www.erreursdefilms.com /comp/fantomus.htm (744 words)

	Movie Database - tvguide.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The great Jean Cocteau has written that in order for a myth to live it must continually be told and retold, and this is just what Cocteau does in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST--bringing Mme.
		Beauty (Josette Day) and the Beast (Jean Marais) are given a new life in the cinema thanks to Cocteau's poetry, Henri Alekan's cinematography, Georges Auric's music, and Christian Berard's art direction.
		It is a credit to Cocteau's genius (and to that of his collaborators) that he has taken the unreal world of a fairy tale and made it as real as the world around us.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=2335 (240 words)

	Amazon.ca: Beauty and the Beast: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		With sparkling fl-and-white imagery that, for once, is actually dreamlike rather than cute or kitschy, and with a Beast (Jean Marais) who is almost as glamorous with his silky blonde facial hair as he is clean shaven, the movie casts a seductive spell.
		Jean Cocteau's most popular film, this 1946 masterpiece is perhaps the most faithful of the many film versions of the 1756 fairy tale written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont.
		Though the ending is a bit on the strange side -- the Beast morphs into a prince who looks exactly like Belle's hapless suitor, and her disappointment is unmistakable -- the film features tight, economical storytelling and enough visual fireworks (including many stunningly executed optical effects) to enrapture viewers...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0780020715 (717 words)

	The Films of Jean Cocteau
		With the vain and boorish Avenant (Jean Marais) hovering over her, Belle's prospects seem dim indeed.
		One day while riding in the woods, her father is caught in a windstorm and takes refuge at a mystical castle where he plucks a single rose to take home to his daughter.
		One of the great voices of the avant garde cinema, Jean Cocteau is that rare director who could make experimental cinema appealing even for the masses.
	www.mondo-digital.com /orpheus.html (1717 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête): The Criterion Collection
		At first the Beast (Jean Marais, working with his stunning mask instead of just through it) condemns him to death.
		For romance, she is courted by a superbly handsome, yet shallow and callous, lout named Avenant (also played by matinee idol Marais).
		His having the Beast played by his longtime lover and muse, Marais, may or may not add another layer of significance to Cocteau's creative imagination.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/b/beautyandthebeast_cc.shtml (2988 words)

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