Mila Parély [SEP] place of death
Marais from 1942 to 1944, when they separated. Marais was the long-term lover of Jean Cocteau and her co-star in the latter's 1946 film version of "Beauty and the Beast".
She also worked with such notable directors as Max Ophüls, Robert Bresson, Fritz Lang and G.W. Pabst. She returned to acting briefly in the late 1980s. Mila Parély died on 14 January 2012, aged 94, in Vichy, where she had spent the last fifty years of her life.
Filmography.
is included on the 2003 DVD release of the restored print of "Beauty and the Beast". Marais appears on the cover sleeve of The Smiths single "This Charming Man".
Personal life.
He was married for two years to the actress Mila Parély, with whom he later performed in Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast".
Marais, who was bisexual, was the muse and lover of Jean Cocteau until Cocteau's death. After Cocteau's death, Marais wrote a memoir of Cocteau, "