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That Disney could not help but to adopt them and adapt them. From the long corridor of candleholders,
held out from the walls by living arms, through which the beauty enters visitor enters the palace of the
Beast, to the gleaming shrine of Diana, where the mystery of the Beast is exposed, the filmic
progression of the fable into a dream like world casts its unpredictable spell.
With the simple story largely told in pantomime, and the music of Georges Auric complements the
dream like moods. The settings are similarly dramatic, many of the exteriors having been filmed for
unusual architectural vignettes at Raray, which is one of the most beautiful palaces and parks in all of
France. And the outfits made by Christian Berard and Escoffier, are beautiful doings, dazzling and
inspired, missing only the glow of colour.
As the beast and the young prince the heroine jean Marias has
much stage presence and move with easy and has a great male voice all though the makeup takes on
lion like similarity and close to some of the Hollywood mask of the time he wears it very well and pulls
the character off with as much depth as possible
. And as Beauty, Josette Day is truly lovely, youthful and delicate, a convincingly innocent maiden and
student to the mysteries of life. Mila Parley is despicably vain and greedy as one of Beauty's bad sisters
and Marcel Andre is nicely theatrical as her doting, ineffectual papa.( By BOSLEY CROWTHER)
This film should be watched just for its philosophy and its fascinating cinematography and preproduction which help make this a classic and a true work of
Bibliography
La Belle et la Bete (1946)THE SCREEN IN REVIEWBy BOSLEY CROWTHERPublished: December
24, 1947http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?
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