Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) was a French poet, dramatist, and film director.

Short Biography:

A leading figure in European modernism, he worked with Picasso, Diaghilev, and Stravinsky.

He produced many volumes of poetry, ballets such as Le Boeafsur le toit (Tke Nothing Doing Bar) in 1920, plays, for example, Orphe'ei (Orpheus) in 1926, and a mature novel of bourgeois French life, Les Enfants terribles (Children of the Game) in 1929, which he made into a film 1950.

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Jean Cocteau was a French poet, dramatist, playwright and filmmaker.

Jean Cocteau Lists

	1889 births
	1963 deaths
	People from Maisons-Laffitte
	Ballet librettists
	Bisexual artists
	Bisexual writers
	Deaths from myocardial infarction
	French dramatists and playwrights
	French experimental filmmakers
	French fantasy writers
	French film directors
	French illustrators
	French novelists
	French painters
	French poets
	Prince des poètes
	French screenwriters
	Légion d'honneur recipients
	Les Six
	Members of the Académie française
	Surrealist writers

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Jean Cocteau Pictures

 

Jean Cocteau Movies
The Blood Of A Poet Daughter Of The Sands The Testament Of Orpheus
Jean Cocteau Filmography

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Category: Writers  - ( Writers Archive)

Date Added: 08 December '11

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