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1948 film

Ruy Blas

Directed by	Pierre Billon
Screenplay by	Jean Cocteau
Based on	Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo
Produced by	Georges Legrand Nino Martegani André Paulvé
Starring	Danielle Darrieux Jean Marais Marcel Herrand
Cinematography	Michel Kelber
Edited by	Maurice Serein
Music by	Georges Auric
Production companies	Films André Paulvé Productions Georges Legrand Martegani Produzione
Distributed by	DisCina Atlantis Film
Release date	15 February 1948 (1948-02-15)
Running time	93 minutes
Countries	France Italy
Language	French
Box office	2,453,187 admissions (France)

Ruy Blas is a 1948 French-Italian historical drama film directed by Pierre Billon and starring Danielle Darrieux, Jean Marais and Marcel Herrand. The screenplay was written by Jean Cocteau based on the 1838 play of the same title by Victor Hugo. It was shot at the Icet Studios in Milan and on location at Cassis in Southern France. The film's sets were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch.

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Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. I film: Tutti i film italiani dal 1930 al 1944. Gremese Editore, 2005.
Tolton, C.D.E. The Cinema of Jean Cocteau: Essays on His Films and Their Coctelian Sources. Legas, 1998.

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Bibliography
Drama	Le Gendarme incompris (1921) Orpheus (1926) The Human Voice (1930) The Infernal Machine (1934) L'École des veuves (1936) Les Chevaliers de la Table ronde (1937) Les Parents terribles (1938) Les Monstres sacrés (1940) La Machine à écrire (1941) Renaud et Armide (1943) L'Aigle à deux têtes (1946) Bacchus (1951)
Prose	The White Paper (1928) Les Enfants terribles (1929) Opium: Diary of a Cure (1930)
Films written and directed	The Blood of a Poet (1932) Beauty and the Beast (1946) The Eagle with Two Heads (1948) Les Parents terribles (1948) Orpheus (1950) La Villa Santo-Sospir (1952) Testament of Orpheus (1960)
Films written	The Phantom Baron (1943) L'Éternel retour (1943) Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945) Ruy Blas (1948) Les Enfants terribles (1950) The Black Crown (1951) La Princesse de Clèves (1961) Thomas the Impostor (1965)
Ballet libretti	Le Dieu bleu (1912) Parade (1917) Le Bœuf sur le toit (1920) Les mariés de la tour Eiffel (1921) Le Train Bleu (1924) Le jeune homme et la mort (1946)
Opera libretti	Antigone (1927) Oedipus rex (1927) Le pauvre matelot (1927)
Related	Bastion Museum Jean Cocteau: A Life Jean Cocteau House Jean Cocteau Museum Jean Marais Notre-Dame-de-Jérusalem, Fréjus The Orphic Trilogy

v t e Films directed by Pierre Billon
Venetian Nights (1931) Should We Wed Them? (1932) The Fakir of the Grand Hotel (1934) The House on the Dune (1934) Bourrasque (1935) Second Bureau (1935) In the Service of the Tsar (1936) Southern Mail (1937) The Silent Battle (1937) The Inevitable Monsieur Dubois (1943) Vautrin (1943) Mademoiselle X (1945) The Eternal Husband (1946) Ruy Blas (1948) Agnes of Nothing (1950) Chéri (1950) Farewell Mister Grock (1950) My Friend Oscar (1951) My Seal and Them (1951) The Merchant of Venice (1953) Storm (1954) Suspicion (1956) Until the Last One (1957)

Films directed by Pierre Billon

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