Sometimes beauty heard music and voices in the lonely palace, but she never saw a single soul.
"Enjoy your meal," the beast said. "Everything in this house is yours." Every night, the Beast proposed marriage to Beauty, but she refused him again and again.
Beauty's tears fell on his terrible face, still his beautiful eyes looked at her.
Only after she kissed him did he turn back into the handsome prince he was.
Film stills: John Cocteau, 1946
Drew Barrymore by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue 2009
