Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (French: [ʒɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963)
was a French essayist, planner, dramatist, craftsman and producer. Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants Terribles (1929), and the movies The Blood of a Poet (1930),
Les Parents Terribles (1948), Beauty and the Beast (1946) and Orpheus (1949).
His hover of partners, companions and sweethearts included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein,
Yul Brynner, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, Albert Gleizes, Igor Stravinsky, Marie Laurencin, María Félix, Édith Piaf, Panama Al Brown, Colette, Jean Genet, and Raymond Radiguet.
was a French essayist, planner, dramatist, craftsman and producer. Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants Terribles (1929), and the movies The Blood of a Poet (1930),
Les Parents Terribles (1948), Beauty and the Beast (1946) and Orpheus (1949).
His hover of partners, companions and sweethearts included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein,
Yul Brynner, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, Albert Gleizes, Igor Stravinsky, Marie Laurencin, María Félix, Édith Piaf, Panama Al Brown, Colette, Jean Genet, and Raymond Radiguet.
