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Marie Antoinette
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Director:
Writers:
Claudine West (screenplay) and
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Release Date:
26 August 1938 (USA) more
Plot:
The life of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) from betrothal and marriage in 1770 to her beheading. At first... more | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Rediscovering Norma Shearer more (53 total)

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Additional Details

Runtime:
149 min | USA:157 min (original road show print including entry, intermission and exit music)
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Black and White (Sepiatone)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Canada:PG (video rating) | Australia:G | Finland:S | USA:Approved (PCA #4322)
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Trivia:
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. more
Quotes:
Marie: Perhaps the great loves come with tears. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Legend of 'Cat Ballou' (2000) (V) more
Soundtrack:
La Marseillaise more

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31 out of 43 people found the following comment useful.
Rediscovering Norma Shearer, 22 June 2001
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Author: eskridge from Houston, Texas

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.

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