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8 unusual facts about La Belle et la Bête


Josette Day

Her films include Allo Berlin? Ici Paris! (1932), The Merry Monarch (based on Les Aventures du roi Pausole) (1933), Lucrèce Borgia (1935), L'homme du jour (1937), Accord final (1938), La Belle et la Bête (1946) and Les Parents terribles (1948).

La Belle et la Bête

English language title Beauty and the Beast

La Belle et la Bête (fairy tale), original French title of the fairy tale known in English as Beauty and the Beast.

English language title Beauty and the Beast

La Belle et la Bête is the French equivalent of Beauty and the Beast

Mila Parély

Mila Parély (7 October 1917 – 14 January 2012) was a French actress of Polish ancestry best known for the roles of Belle's sister in Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête and as Geneviève in La Règle du jeu.

Paul Morand

During this period he met eighteen -year old actress, Josette Day, (later "Belle" in Cocteau's film La Belle et la Bête, ) who became his mistress.

The Curse of the Cat People

Film historian William K. Everson found the same sense of beauty at work in The Curse of the Cat People and Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête.



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