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    The Best Live-Action <em>Beauty and the Beast</em> Is 1987's TV-Procedural Version

    (The one set in New York City, and starring Linda Hamilton, and co-written by George R.R. Martin)
    by Megan Garber Mar 17, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: CBS

    Disney’s new Beauty and the Beast premieres today, a lavish, live-action affair starring Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, and Luke Evans. The film has thus far received decidedly tepid critical reviews (my colleague David Sims: “A Tale as Old as Time, Told Worse”). No matter, though: If you’re a fan of modern-ish renderings of Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve’s 1740 fairy tale, there are many, many—so many—other live-action versions of it already in existence, varied to suit any beautiful-bestial entertainment need.

    There’s Jean Cocteau’s 1946 film, and Edward Cahn’s , from 1962, and 1983’s , a Danish version of the story directed by Nils Malmros. There are also the movies—all of them titled —that premiered in 1992, and then in 2005, and then in 2009, and then in 2014. There’s also the 1987 musical film starring Rebecca De Mornay and John Savage. And in case film isn’t your preferred medium, there have also been several

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