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Beauty and the Beast: Diary of a Film

by Jean Cocteau · 1946

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Personalities of actors, technical problems and their surmounting, daily events, much more. 38 photographs.

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fantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of this
Themes
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Audience
adult
Length
short · 142 pages

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