Orpheus (Episode 104) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky

Hot Date with Dan and Vicky · Apr 17, 2020 · 1h 9m

It's hard to imagine any cast being better than the one director Jean Cocteau eventually assembled for his 1950 loose film adaptation of the Orpheus myth. But there are stories that Cocteau offered the part of the princess, played to icy perfection by Maria Casares, to Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. Both turned him down. French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont also claimed that Cocteau had him and his wife Maria Montez in mind for the leads, a claim that the director refutes. And there must have been some question how the casting of Jean Marais as Orpheus and Edouard Dermit as Cegeste would work…