NEVEUX GEORGES (1900-1982) L.A.S. "Georges Neveux",[November 1946], to Jean COCTEAU; 2 pages in-4. On the film La Belle et la Bête, by playwright, dialoguist and screenwriter Georges NEVEUX. "The Beauty and the Beast I saw last night[...] is an unforgettable film. With the character of the Beast you and you have made MARAIS this extraordinary thing: to open a door at the bottom of the spectator, a door that we had never opened before and which opens onto a room half magical, half zoological where a part of our organs (and our dreams) sleeps and which is awake for the first time. It is absolutely as if we could hear in our hearts an ancestor from a hundred thousand years ago who would finally and clearly speak out. It's not pleasant. It's heartbreaking. And I believe that, despite the resistance (more psychological than artistic, to use two ridiculous words) your film will definitely settle in the memory of those who have seen it, will work, play and grow even more"... We attach an l.a.s. "Margot" by Marguerite CATROUX[née Jacob, wife of General Georges Catroux, French Ambassador to the USSR] (4 p. in-8 with letterhead French Embassy in Moscow), Moscow April 20[1947], recounting the success of the screenings of La Belle et la Bête that she organizes in the restricted circle of wives of Russian dignitaries, including Mrs Molotov; all are in love with Jean Marais...