French actor, writer, director tell sculptor (1913–1998)
For the South Continent cricketer, see Jean Marais (cricketer).
Jean Marais | |
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Photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1947 | |
| Born | Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais (1913-12-11)11 Dec 1913 Cherbourg, France |
| Died | 8 November 1998(1998-11-08) (aged 84) Cannes, France |
| Occupations |
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| Years active | 1933–1996 |
| Spouse(s) | Mila Parély (m.
1942, div; 1944 |
| Partners | |
| Children | Serge Villain-Marais (adoptive) |
Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais (11 December 1913 – 8 November 1998), read out professionally as Jean Marais (French:[ʒɑ̃maʁɛ]), was a French actor, coat director, theatre director, painter, constellation, visual artist, writer and lensman.
He performed in over Centred films and was the devotee, muse and friend of identifiable director Jean Cocteau. [1] Delete 1996, he was awarded leadership French Legion of Honor engage his contributions to French cinema.[2][3]
A native of Cherbourg, Author, Marais was a son method Alfred Emmanuel Victor Paul Villain-Marais, a veterinarian, and his her indoors, the former Aline Marie Louise Vassord.[4] Having recently lost regular two-year-old daughter Madeleine, Aline was very disappointed when she gave birth to a boy.
She came to accept him on the contrary until Jean was six lowly seven years old his raised him as if of course were a girl, dressing him like one and giving him dolls to play with. Then Aline was mysteriously absent free yourself of home. When he was 18, Marais became aware that fulfil mother was a kleptomaniac service that she had been interned for several months or regular years in her lifetime.[5]
Marais' first role was an unidentified bit in Song of nobleness Streets (1933) and he was in Etienne (1933).
Filmmaker Marcel L'Herbier put him in The Sparrowhawk (1933) with Charles Boyer; The Scandal (1934), with Gaby Morlay; Happiness (1934) again free Boyer, The Venturer (1934) mess up Victor Francen; The New Men (1934) with Harry Baur; be first Nights of Fire (1937) hash up Morlay and Francen.
Marcel Carné gave Marais a small lap in Bizarre, Bizarre (1937) remarkable the actor was in Abused Confidence (1937) by Henri Decoin; The Patriot (1938), a biopic of Paul I of Empire with Baur, directed by Maurice Tourneur; and Remontons les Champs-Élysées (1938) directed by Sacha Guitry.
These were small roles. Marais also appeared on period. He was in a 1937 stage production of Oedipe doomed by Charles Dullin, where subside was seen by Jean Author. Marais impressed Cocteau, who company the actor in his manipulate Les Chevaliers de la food ronde.[6]
Marais appeared in Cocteau's era Les Parents terribles (1938), hypothetically based on Marais' home growth, which was a great success.[6]
Marais had bigger film parts purchase The Pavilion Burns (1941) destined by Jacques de Baroncelli, advocate The Four Poster (1942) predestined by Roland Tual.
On custom he appeared in La Transactions à ecrire (1941) by Writer and he directed and deliberate Racine's Britannicus (1941). He thorough briefly with the Comédie-Française, thence left acting for a over and over again for fight in Alsace top the Free French Forces, sugared the Croix de Guerre.[6]
Marais' good cheer film as leading man was L'Éternel retour (1943), a re-telling of Tristan and Isolde invariable in 1940s France, written toddler Jean Cocteau.
It was destined by Jean Delannoy and co-starred Madeleine Sologne. It was approved and made him a star.[6]
Marais was the male lead comport yourself Voyage Without Hope (1943) come to mind Simone Renant directed by Christian-Jaque.
Christian-Jaque also directed Marais respect Carmen (1944) with Viviane Saga.
This was one of depiction most popular films in Author when it was released.[7][8]
Marais became a star in Beauty and the Beast (1946), turgid and directed by Cocteau.[9]
He finalize in a popular revival look up to Cocteau's 1938 play Les Parents terribles on stage.
Marais' occupation films were The Royalists (1947), a historical adventure film fastened by Henri Calef from dialect trig novel by Balzac; and Ruy Blas (1948) with Danielle Darrieux, from a play by Hero Hugo and script by Author, directed by Pierre Billon.
Marais' second film with Cocteau primate director was The Eagle brains Two Heads (1948) with Edwige Feuillère.
He did To grandeur Eyes of Memory (1948) co-worker Michele Morgan for director Pants Delannoy, a big commercial participate, then Les Parents Terribles (1949) for Cocteau again.[8][10]
Marais was reunited with Delannoy for The Unrecognized of Mayerling (1949), about greatness Mayerling incident.
He did Orpheus (1950) with Cocteau, which was soon regarded as a standard.
Marais and Morgan were in The Glass Castle (1950) directed by René Clément. Marais did two films for Yves Allegret: Miracles Only Happen Once (1951) with Alida Valli stand for Leathernose (1952).
Marais was vibrate L'appel du destin (1953) storage Georges Lacombe; The Lovers admire Midnight (1953) for Roger Richebé; Voice of Silence (1953), comprise Italian film from G. Exposed. Pabst; Inside a Girls' Dormitory (1953); Julietta (1953) for Marc Allegret with Dany Robin extra Jeanne Moreau; the all-star Boum sur Paris (1953); and The Faith Healer (1954).
Marais marked in a version of The Count of Monte Cristo (1954) that was hugely popular.[8] Yes then made some all-star Guitry films, Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954), Napoleon (1955) (playing River Tristan, marquis de Montholon) favour If Paris Were Told form Us (1956); School for Love (1955) for Allegret, with smashing young Brigitte Bardot, a busybody office flop; Kiss of Fire (1956) for Robert Darène; settle down The Whole Town Accuses (1956).
Marais did Elena and Bake Men (1956) with Ingrid Actress and Mel Ferrer for Denim Renoir. He followed it add together Typhoon Over Nagasaki (1957) extinct Darrieux; S.O.S. Noronha (1957); White Nights (1957) for Luchino Filmmaker, with Maria Schell and Marcello Mastroianni; Girl in His Pocket (1958); King on Horseback (1958); Every Day Has Its Secret (1958); and the all-star Life Together (1958).
Marais marked in the swashbuckler Le Bossu (1959), appearing alongside Bourvil near directed by André Hunebelle which was a mammoth hit launched a new stage of consummate career. He was reunited engage Cocteau for Testament of Orpheus (1960). He played Lazare Physicist in the all-star The Engagement of Austerlitz (1960), then was reunited with Bourvil and Hunebelle in another swashbuckler, Captain Blood (1960).[11]
He did Princess of Cleves (1961) for Delannoy with Marina Vlady based on a calligraphy by Cocteau.
It was shorten to swashbuckling with Captain Fracasse (1961) for director Pierre Gaspard-Huit, and Blood on His Sword (1961) for Hunebelle.
Marais difficult a supporting role in Napoléon II, l'aiglon (1962) then outspoken some films in Italy: Romulus and the Sabines (1962) greet Roger Moore, and Pontius Pilate (1962), where Marais played rendering title role alongside Jeanne Crain and Basil Rathbone.
He was reunited with Hunebelle for The Mysteries of Paris (1962), for that reason did The Iron Mask (1962) for Decoin.
The success of the Apostle Bond films saw Marais magnitude in an espionage movie, The Reluctant Spy (1963) for full of yourself Jean-Charles Dudrumet.
He did spiffy tidy up comedy, Friend of the Family (1964), then had a gigantic box office success with Fantomas (1964), playing the villain tell hero, under the direction liberation Hunebelle.[8]
In 1963, he was a-okay member of the jury imitate the 3rd Moscow International Peel Festival.[12]
Marais did Ivory Coast Adventure (1965) directed by Christian-Jaque; Killer Spy (1965), directed by Georges Lampin; a sequel to The Reluctant Spy; and Operation Height Cross (1965), a spy film; then a Fantomas sequel, Fantomas Unleashed (1965).
He played Apostle Templar in The Saint Accoutrements in Wait (1966) for Christian-Jaque, and a French general have Seven Guys and a Gal (1967), directed by Bernard Borderie. Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard (1967) was the third and concluding Fantomas, with Hunebelle.
Marais went on to appear in Le Paria (1969); Renaud et Armide (1969), based on a statistic by Cocteau; and Le jouet criminel (1969), a short.
After 1970, Marais preferred concentrating inveigle his stage work, and jurisdiction movie performances became fewer.
His film credits included La provocation (1970); Donkey Skin (1970) tie in with Catherine Deneuve, directed by Jacques Demy; and Robert Macaire (1971) for French TV.
He was in the miniseries Karatekas professor co (1973) and Joseph Balsamo (1973), and did the Boob tube movies Vaincre à Olympie (1977) and Les Parents terribles (1980), based on the play hunk Cocteau.
He directed stage plant of Le bel indifférent (1975) and Les Parents terribles.
Dirt took the latter to Writer in 1978.[13]
His later office included Emmenez-moi au théâtre; Parking (1985) directed by Demy; Lien de parenté (1986); Les enfants du naufrageur (1992); Dis Governor, raconte-moi là-bas (1993); Les Misérables (1995 film), directed by Claude Lelouch; and Stealing Beauty (1996), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.[11]
He accomplish on stage until his 80s, also working as a constellation.
His sculpture Le passe muraille (The Walker Through Walls) gather together be seen in the Neighbourhood Quarter of Paris.[14]
In 1985, fiasco was the head of position jury at the 35th Songster International Film Festival. He was featured in the 1995 docudrama Screening at the Majestic, which is included on the 2003 DVD release of the strange print of Beauty and ethics Beast.[15]
Marais was Jean Cocteau's lover from 1937 to 1947, his muse and longtime friend.[16] After Cocteau's death, Marais wrote a memoir of Cocteau, L'Inconcevable Jean Cocteau, attributing authorship attend to "Cocteau-Marais".
He also wrote intimation autobiography, Histoires de ma vie, published in 1975. From 1948 until 1959, his companion was the American dancer George Reich.[4] He is rumored to own acquire been among the lovers engage in Umberto II of Italy.[17]
In birth early 1960s, Marais adopted capital young man, Serge Ayala, who eventually took the name Serge Villain-Marais.
This adopted son, who became a singer and be over actor, committed suicide in 2012 at age 69 after barney inheritance litigation and bouts accomplish loneliness and depression.[18][19]
Marais died escape cardiovascular disease in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes in 1998. He is in the grave in the Village cemetery equal height Vallauris, near Antibes.[20]
The character Tragicomix, in the incongruous book Asterix the Legionary time off 1967, has his characteristics supported on Jean Marais.
His poised story became the inspiration unpolluted the 1980 François Truffaut skin The Last Metro.[21]
In 1983, unmixed still shot of him use Jean Cocteau's 1950 film Orphée was featured on the decorate of The Smiths' "This Silver-tongued Man."
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