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Jean Marais photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1947
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Jean Marais photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1947

Jean Marais, born Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais (December 11, 1913 - November 8, 1998) was a French actor, and the lover of Jean Cocteau. He starred in several movies directed by Cocteau, most notoriously Beauty and the Beast. In the 1950s, Marais became a star of swashbuckling pictures, enjoying great box office popularity in France. He performed his own stunts. After 1970, Marais's on-screen performances became few and far between, as he preferred concentrating on his stage work. He kept performing on stage until his eighties, also working as a sculptor. Image File history File links Jean_Marais. ... Image File history File links Jean_Marais. ... Photographic self-portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. ... December 11 is the 345th day (346th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 53 days remaining. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker. ... Beauty and the Beast (in French: La Belle et la Bête) is a French film, made in 1946, based on the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. The film was directed by Jean Cocteau, and starred his gay lover Jean Marais as the Beast and Josette Day as Beauty. ... Sculptor redirects here. ...


Personal life

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. He had avoided publicity since he had the reputation of being gay and didn't want their story to be ridiculed as a sham. In human sexuality, bisexuality describes a man or woman having a sexual orientation to persons of either or both sexes (a man or woman who sexually likes both sexes; people who are sexually and/or romantically attracted to both males and females). ...


He was born in Cherbourg, Manche. He died in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes. Cherbourg is a city of Normandy, in northwestern France, in the Manche département, of which it is a sous_préfecture. ... Manche is a French département in Normandy named after La Manche (the sleeve), which is the French name of the English Channel. ... The seaside town of Cannes, in southern France, as seen from a ferry speeding towards lîle Saint Honorat Cannes (Canas in Provençal) (pronounced ) is a city and commune in southern France, located on the Riviera, in the Alpes-Maritimes département. ... Alpes_Maritimes is a département in the extreme southeast corner of France. ...


Filmography, as actor includes


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Jean Marais : Biography (English) (525 words)
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.
Jean Marais - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (546 words)
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.
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