Jean COCTEAU(1889-1963, Poet, playwright and filmmaker) / Au - Lot 344

Jean COCTEAU(1889-1963, Poet, playwright and filmmaker) / Autograph letter signed by him, 1 page in-4, Paris, Palais-Royal, March 17, 1960, toRoger PILLAUDIN(1927-1996, man of the theater and radio producer) [Context: Roger Pillaudin had followed the shooting of Jean Cocteau's film "Le Testament d'Orphée" with a team of radio technicians, in order to produce for radio a series of programs broadcast in February 1960 called "Journal sonore du tournage du film Testament d'Orphée" - Given the success of these programs, Cocteau and Pillaudin decided to broadcast a record of excerpts and to publish a book - So in March 1960 they were looking for a publisher]: "I'm not abandoning you - and if theDuc Hermann(who is mistaken) falls into the imperatives of current events we'll find another door"["Le Duc Hermann" refers to Pierre Berès, owner of Editions Hermann]. - "I'd like you to take a good slice of our "journal" with my texts to the "Cahiers du Cinéma"-I've warned Truffaut because Valcroze is on a trip, Truffaut asked me to do it" [Jacques Doniol-Valcroze was one of the founders of the "Cahiers du Cinéma" and François Truffaut, director, one of the contributors, and animator of the "nouvelle vague"]. - "Hurry up and see the "Cahiers" team, and this will in no way hinder publication in volume, on the contrary" - "I've spoken to Worms about it, who refuses to believe I have a phone call from the Duke" [Gérard Worms was associated with the management of "Editions du Rocher"]. [In November 1960, this "Journal du Testament d'Orphée" was finally published by "Editions de la Table ronde" under the title "Jean Cocteau tourne son dernier Film" (Jean Cocteau shoots his last film), written by Roger Pillaudin] / Attached: original agency photograph (12.5 x 20.5 cm) of Cocteau giving his acceptance speech at the Académie française.