The director Jean Cocteau admired the film, and wrote an introduction for it.

* 1950: Les Enfants terribles directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, script by Jean Cocteau based on his novel

* 1965: Thomas l ' imposteur directed by Georges Franju, script by Jean Cocteau based on his novel

Riefenstahl had high hopes for a collaboration with Cocteau called Friedrich und Voltaire, wherein Cocteau was to play two roles.

* Antigone, play by Jean Cocteau ( 1889 – 1963 )

In 1943 Jean Cocteau wrote a play about an imagined meeting between Elisabeth and her assassin, L ' Aigle à deux têtes ( The Eagle with Two Heads ).

Jean Cocteau directed the 1948 film version of his play The Eagle with Two Heads.

This fact inspired Clouzot for his film Le Corbeau and Cocteau for his play La Machine à écrire.

Walker wrote the score for the ROH2 production of Jean Cocteau ’ s 1932 play Duet for One, which was staged in the Linbury Studio in June 2011.

He was put in charge of organizing entertainment for the troops and as a result was approached by Jean Cocteau to design the set and costumes for the William Shakespeare play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, along with Georges Valmier.

The Jean Cocteau Repertory company produced the play at the Bouwerie Lane Theatre in New York in 1999.

* Antigone ( Cocteau ), Jean Cocteau's play, based on Sophocles

In March 2007, Miwa performed the role of Empress Sisi in the play L ’ aigle à deux têtes by writer Jean Cocteau at Parco Theatre in Shibuya.

Nevertheless, Prokofieff was much influenced by Paris during the Twenties: the Paris which was the artistic center of the Western World -- the social Paris to which Russian aristocracy migrated -- the chic Paris which attracted the tourist dollars of rich America -- the avant-garde Paris of Diaghileff, Stravinsky, Koussevitzky, Cocteau, Picasso -- the laissez-faire Paris of Dadaism and ultramodern art -- the Paris sympathique which took young composers to her bosom with such quick and easy enthusiasms.

It was paired with a Darius Milhaud opera, `` The Poor Sailor '', set to a libretto by Jean Cocteau, a kind of Grand Guignol by the sea, a sailor returns, unrecognized, and gets done in by his wife.

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963 ) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

Cocteau was born in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, a village near Paris, to Georges Cocteau and his wife, Eugénie Lecomte ; a socially prominent Parisian family.

His father was a lawyer and amateur painter who committed suicide when Cocteau was nine.

The popularity was due in no small measure to the presence of Cocteau and his friends.

Cocteau himself was aware of this perception, and worked earnestly to dispel the notion that their relationship was sexual in nature.

" His opium addiction at the time, Cocteau said, was only coincidental, due to a chance meeting with Louis Laloy, the administrator of the Monte Carlo Opera.

Cocteau was supported throughout his recovery by his friend and correspondent philosopher Jacques Maritain.

According to one theory about how Cocteau was inspired to write La Voix humaine, he was experimenting with an idea by fellow French playwright Henri Bernstein.

In 1945, Cocteau was one of several designers who created sets for the Théâtre de la Mode.

Cocteau was openly gay.

In 1955 Cocteau was made a member of the Académie française and The Royal Academy of Belgium.

During his life Cocteau was commander of the Legion of Honor, Member of the Mallarmé Academy, German Academy ( Berlin ), American Academy, Mark Twain ( U. S. A ) Academy, Honorary President of the Cannes film festival, Honorary President of the France-Hungary Association and President of the Jazz Academy and of the Academy of the Disc.

In 1954, Jean Cocteau insisted on Tiefland being shown at the Cannes Film Festival, which he was running that year.

The ballet's premiere in Paris on 17 May 1921 was a huge success and was greeted with great admiration by an audience that included Jean Cocteau, Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel.

* A key part of the 1950 film adaptation of the myth of Orpheus by Jean Cocteau is a mysterious radio station broadcasting random phrases ( in fact transmitted by Cégeste on the orders of Death ).

During the Roaring 20s Paris, Tamara de Lempicka was part of the bohemian life: she knew Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and André Gide.

They also became part of the famed coterie of Riviera hosts Gerald and Sarah Murphy, which included Hemingway, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Fernand Léger, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, John O ' Hara, Cole Porter, Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley.

In 1946, this became a prominent and traditional part of the vineyard's image, with labels created by great painters and sculptors such as Jean Cocteau, Leonor Fini, Henry Moore, Marie Laurencin, Georges Braque, Salvador Dalí, Jacques Villon, Pierre Alechinsky, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, César, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Andy Warhol, and other notables.

Used as a storeroom for local fishermen's nets and equipment for most of the 19th and early part of the 20th century, it was restored in 1957 with Jean Cocteau adding his now-famous murals depicting the life of the saint and of local fishermen.

After releasing records with 4AD for a large part of their career, Cocteau Twins decided to take a step towards independence and started up the Bella Union record label, through which they could release their own work as well as any collaborative efforts.

were also chosen by Smith to be part of his Celebrity Playlist on iTunes along with Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, Supergrass, Nirvana ( band ), Placebo, The Psychedelic Furs, and several bands that played on the Curiosa tour earlier that year.

Cahiers du Cinema authors also championed the work of directors Jean Renoir, Roberto Rossellini, Kenji Mizoguchi, Max Ophüls, and Jean Cocteau, by centering their critical evaluations on a film's mise en scène.

Portrait of Jean Cocteau by Federico de Madrazo de Ochoa

Admiring of Radiguet's great literary talent, Cocteau promoted his friend's works in his artistic circle and arranged for the publication by Grasset of Le Diable au corps ( a largely autobiographical story of an adulterous relationship between a married woman and a younger man ), exerting his influence to have the novel awarded the " Nouveau Monde " literary prize.

* Collection of three vinyl recordings of Jean Cocteau including La Voix humaine by Simone Signoret, 18 songs composed by Louis Bessières, Bee Michelin and Renaud Marx, on double-piano Paul Castanier, Le Discours de réception à l ' Académie Française, Jacques Canetti JC1, 1984

* Anthology, 4 CD containing numerous poems and texts read by the author, Anna la bonne, La Dame de Monte-Carlo and Mes sœurs, n ' aimez pas les marins by Marianne Oswald, Le Bel Indifférent by Edith Piaf, La Voix humaine by Berthe Bovy, Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel with Jean Le Poulain, Jacques Charon and Jean Cocteau, discourse on the reception at the Académie française, with extracts from Les Parents terribles, La Machine infernale, pieces from Parade on piano with two hands by Georges Auric and Francis Poulenc, Frémeaux & Associés FA 064, 1997

* Poems by Jean Cocteau read by the author, CD EMI 8551082, 1997

* Hommage à Jean Cocteau, mélodies d ' Henri Sauguet, Arthur Honegger, Louis Durey, Darius Milhaud, Erik Satie, Jean Wiener, Max Jacob, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Delage, Georges Auric, Guy Sacre, by Jean-François Gardeil ( baryton ) and Billy Eidi ( piano ), CD Adda 581177, 1989

* Cocteau, Jean, Le Numéro Barbette, an influential essay on the nature of art inspired by the performer Barbette, 1926