''Beauty and the Beast'' is a 1976 TV movie directed by

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, written by Sherman Yellen and produced by

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and Palm Films. The movie is a live-action adaptation of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's eighteenth-century

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starring real-life husband and wife George C. Scott and

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Cast

* George C. Scott as the Beast *

as Belle *

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as Lucy * Bernard Lee as Beaumont *

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as Anthony * William Relton as Nicholas *

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as Susan

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* {{Beauty and the Beast Films based on Beauty and the Beast Films directed by Fielder Cook