Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ kɔkto]; July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, designer, screenwriter, artist, and director who collaborated with the Nazis. Cocteau's representative works are the novel "The Terrible Children" (1929), the film "The Blood of a Poet" (1930), "The Terrible Parents" (1948), "Beauty and the Beast" (1946) and "Orpheus" (1949). His friends included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Mallet, Henri Bernstein, Marina Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Eric Satie, Maria Félix, Edith Piaf and Raymond Hardiguet.