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Jean Marais
Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais, known professionally as Jean Marais, was a French actor, theatre director, painter, sculptor, visual artist, writer and photographer. In 1937, Marais became the lover of acclaimed poet, playwright and film director Jean Cocteau, who considered him his muse and directed him in multiple plays and films, notably Beauty and the Beast (1946). Following their relationship, Ma…
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culture · French actor, writer, director and sculptor (1913–1998) · film actor · actor · sculptor · painter · theatre director · film director · autobiographer · stage actor · stunt performer · prose writer · also Jean Marais, Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais, Marais
Born 11 December 1913 · Died 8 November 1998 · Q168359
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Inconcevable Jean Cocteau. He also wrote an autobiography, Histoires de ma vie, published in 1975. Throughout his life Marais made little effort to hide his sexual orientation but did not flaunt it either, and it never hindered his career and popularity in France. While the majority of Marais
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2020· 1 entry
Télé 7 jours: Fantômas contre Scotland Yard (TMC) : 3 choses à savoir sur la comédie avec Louis de Funès et Jean Marais
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2015· 1 entry
Voici: Mylène Demongeot explique que Jean Marais et Louis de Funès ne s’appréciaient pas
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2014· 1 entry
Le Parisien: Jean Marais, acteur, styliste, dessinateur, potier, sculpteurâ?¦
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2012· 1 entry
At age 69 following bouts of loneliness and depression
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2009· 1 entry
Reuters: Souvenirs d'art et de vie de Jean Marais aux enchères à Paris
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1998· 1 entry
Died 1998-11-08.
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1996· 2 entries
Marais, who felt neglected by his son, bequeathed his possessions to his close friend Nicole Pasquali
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Was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his contributions to French cinema
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary César (1993).
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1992· 2 entries
Marais wrote a memoir of Cocteau, L'Inconcevable Jean Cocteau
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“Inconcevable Jean Cocteau. He also wrote an autobiography, Histoires de ma vie, published in 1975. Throughout his life Marais made little effort to hide his sexual orientation but did not flaunt it either, and it never hindered his career and popularity in France. While the majority of Marais”
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1985· 1 entry
Was the head of the jury at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival
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1983· 1 entry
A still shot of him from Jean Cocteau's 1950 film Orphée was featured on the cover of The Smiths' "This Charming Man
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1963· 3 entries
Marais renounced the inheritance in favor of Cocteau's last partner, Édouard Dermit
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Was a member of the jury at the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival
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Marais initially disbelieved that he was Serge's biological father; they met years later when Serge was a teenager and Marais eventually recognized his son in 1963.
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1951· 1 entry
Awarded Victoires du cinéma français (1951).
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1942· 1 entry
Marais had a brief affair with a woman, Maria Ayala
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1941· 1 entry
After Alain Laubreaux, theater critic for the collaborationist newspaper Je suis partout, wrote an insulting review of La Machine à écrire which alluded to Cocteau's sexuality and drug usage, Marais personally beat up La
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1937· 1 entry
Marais became the lover of acclaimed poet, playwright and film director Jean Cocteau, who considered him his muse and directed him in multiple plays and films, notably Beauty and the Beast (1946)
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1913· 1 entry
Born 1913-12-11.
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