Belle's sisters ask for a monkey and a parrot as gifts, but Belle asks only for a rose. Belle's roguish brother Ludovic ( Michel Auclair), believing they will soon be wealthy, signs a contract from a moneylender ( Raoul Marco) allowing him the ability to sue Ludovic's father if he can't pay. Belle's father ( Marcel AndrГ©) arrives home announcing he has come into a great fortune that he will pick up the next day, along with gifts for his daughters, Belle and her shrewish sisters Adelaide and Felicie. Belle rejects Avenant, as she wishes to stay home and take care of her father, who has suffered much since his ships were lost at sea and the family fortune along with them. While scrubbing the floor at home, Belle ( Josette Day) is interrupted by her brother's friend Avenant ( Jean Marais) who tells her she deserves better and suggests they get married. Belle eventually becomes more drawn to Beast, who tests her by letting her return home to her family and telling her that if she doesn't return to him within a week, he will die of grief.Д«eauty and the Beast is now recognized as a classic of French cinema.

Beast falls in love with her and proposes marriage on a nightly basis which she refuses. Belle offers to go back to the Beast in her father's place.

The plot of Cocteau's film revolves around Belle's father who is sentenced to death for picking a rose from Beast's garden. Starring Josette Day as Belle and Jean Marais as the Beast, it is an adaptation of the 1757 story Beauty and the Beast, written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont and published as part of a fairy tale anthology. Beauty and the Beast ( French: La Belle et la BГЄte вЂ“ also the UK title) is a 1946 French romantic fantasy film directed by French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau.

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