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January 8, 1949

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Jean Cocteau: Laborer, Peasant

Fred Keefe

From 1949: Fred Keefe and Geoffrey T. Hellman chronicle the French writer and director Jean Cocteau’s visit to New York to attend the Manhattan première of his film “The Eagle with Two Heads.”