Moreau

[ maw-rohor, French, maw-roh mawr-oh ]

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Gustave [g, y, s-, tav], 1826–98, French painter.
Jeanne [zhahn], 1928–2017, French film actress.
Jean Vic·tor [zhah, n, veek-, tawr], 1763–1813, French general.
a river in northwest South Dakota, flowing east to the Missouri River. 290 miles (470 km) long.

Moreau

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MoreauGustave18261898MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Gustave (ɡystav) 1826–98, French symbolist painter
MoreauJean Victor17631813MFrenchMILITARY: general Jean Victor (ʒɑ̃ viktɔr). 1763–1813, French general in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
MoreauJeanne1928FFrenchTHEATRE: stage actressFILMS AND TV: actress Jeanne (ʒan). born 1928, French stage and film actress. Her films include Jules et Jim (1961), Diary of a Chambermaid (1964), and The Proprietor (1996)

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The production of 1996’s “The Island of Doctor Moreau” was famously tortured, producing the type of unmitigated chaos that feels almost mythic today.

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In an Entertainment Weekly cover story — one year before the magazine’s “Moreau” chronicle — Kilmer said, “I’ve done an absurdly commercial cartoon, and now I’m more likely to get a job I couldn’t get before.”

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The Island Of Dr Moreau, released in 1996, was a critical and comercial flop.

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John Frankenheimer, who directed Kilmer in The Island of Dr Moreau, was even blunter.

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On set, it was said he could be petulant and exhausting, an attitude that alienated directors and his co-stars, including Marlon Brando on the set of “The Island of Dr. Moreau.”

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