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Marie Antoinette (1938)
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Release Date:
26 August 1938 (USA)
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Plot:
The life of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) from betrothal and marriage in 1770 to her beheading. At first...
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Nominated for 4 Oscars.
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1 nomination
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Rediscovering Norma Shearer
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Norma Shearer | ... | Marie Antoinette |
 | Tyrone Power | ... | Count Axel de Fersen |
 | John Barrymore | ... | King Louis XV |
 | Robert Morley | ... | King Louis XVI |
| Anita Louise | ... | Princesse de Lamballe |
| Joseph Schildkraut | ... | Duke d'Orléans |
| Gladys George | ... | Mme. du Barry |
| Henry Stephenson | ... | Count de Mercey |
| Cora Witherspoon | ... | Countess de Noailles |
| Barnett Parker | ... | Prince de Rohan |
| Reginald Gardiner | ... | Comte d'Artois |
| Henry Daniell | ... | La Motte |
| Leonard Penn | ... | Toulan |
| Albert Dekker | ... | Comte de Provence (as Albert Van Dekker) |
| Alma Kruger | ... | Empress Maria Theresa |
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149 min | USA:157 min (original road show print including entry, intermission and exit music)
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Black and White (Sepiatone)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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USA:Passed (National Board of Review) |
Canada:PG (video rating) |
Australia:G |
Finland:S |
USA:Approved (PCA #4322)
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William Randolph Hearst campaigned heavily for Marion Davies (Hearst's mistress) to star as Marie Antoinette. Davies didn't get the role and ended her contract at MGM and went to Warner Bros. along with Hearst.
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Referenced in The Legend of 'Cat Ballou' (2000) (V)
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La Marseillaise
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As a young actress still in her 20s, Norma Shearer was hailed as the First Lady of MGM, and she reigned as queen of the studio throughout the 1930s. For about two decades after early retiring in 1942, she was fondly remembered by fans and critics, but slowly she was forgotten. Then in the early 70s, antagonistic film critic Pauline Kael, grudge-holding MGM rival Joan Crawford and others took delight in trashing her, usually with the implication that Norma's greatest talent was finding a powerful husband (Irving Thalberg). Unfortunately, those unfair remarks carried great weight since Shearer's movies were unavailable on video and rarely shown on TV.
We're now able to see her talent for ourselves, thanks largely to Turner Classic Movies, and Norma Shearer's star is rising again.
If you've never seen a Shearer movie, Marie Antoinette is a good beginning. It is one of Hollywood's great epics of the 1930s, with lavish costumes and scenery, and its historic setting holds up well. Shearer plays the doomed French queen from teenager to the Guillotine, and the final scenes as she awaits death in prison are among the finest of her career.
Other notable Shearer movies are The Divorcée, Private Lives, Escape, A Free Soul, The Barrets of Wimpole Street and The Women.