COCTEAU (Jean). - Lot 68

COCTEAU (Jean). Born in Maisons-Laffitte. 1889-1963. French poet, novelist, playwright, painter, draughtsman and film-maker. Autograph manuscript (draft) Signed "Jean Cocteau".S.l.n.d. 2 pages in-4. J. Cocteau evokes "the great era of films" and paints an admiring portrait of actress Marlène Dietrich ...Those who, like me, were lucky enough to live through the great era of films and see Marlène, astride a chair and wearing a top hat, singing: Ich bin phon [von] Kojt bis Fuß auf Liebe eingstellt denn das ist mein Welt und sonst gar nicht will always retain a perfect image of elegance and beauty. Like the old professor who bewitches the Blue Angel, they will remain under the spell of this bird and this flower (Murderous bird and carnivorous flower, killing all around, just as it sometimes happened to Mistinguett when, already less young, she extinguished the too sparkling girls (.... Stripped of the feathers that seemed to belong to her body and the obscure palisade of her eyelashes, Marlène is a humble, gentle wife, a mother in love with her daughter, a friend like few others in this world. Courage and heart, this is the woman whose name begins with a caress and ends with a whip. Marlène Dietrich! A star, but a star that shines only to show us the way to the good inn whose door closes on no one...