About
French writer, artist, poet, and filmmaker best known for his 1929 novel Les Enfants Terribles. He directed the 1930 avant-garde film Blood of a Poet and the 1946 romantic fantasy Beauty and the Beast.
Before Fame
He drove an ambulance in service to the Red Cross during World War I.
Trivia
He directed an experimental play called La Voix Humaine (The Human Voice), where a woman stands alone on stage speaking into the telephone to a former lover.
Family Life
He was in a relationship with Jean Marais in the late 1930s. He had a son named Edouard Dermithe.
Associated With
He was close friends with cubist painter Pablo Picasso.
