Madame Bovary (1949 film)

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Madame Bovary
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Vincente Minnelli
Produced by	Pandro S. Berman
Written by	Robert Ardrey Gustave Flaubert (novel)
Starring	Jennifer Jones James Mason Van Heflin Louis Jourdan
Music by	Miklos Rozsa
Cinematography	Robert H. Planck
Editing by	Ferris Webster
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	August 27, 1949 (1949-08-27)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Madame Bovary is a 1949 film adaptation of the classic novel of the same name by Gustave Flaubert. It stars Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin (billed as Christopher Kent), Gene Lockhart, Frank Allenby and Gladys Cooper.

It was directed by Vincente Minnelli and produced by Pandro S. Berman, from a screenplay by Robert Ardrey based on the Flaubert novel. The music score was by Miklós Rózsa, the cinematography by Robert H. Planck and the art direction by Cedric Gibbons and Jack Martin Smith.

The film was a project of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios and Lana Turner was set to star, but when pregnancy forced her to withdraw, Jones stepped into the title role. Production began in December 1948 and the film premiered the following summer.

The story of the adulterous wife who destroys the lives of many presented censorship issues with the Motion Picture Production Code. A plot device which structured the story around author Flaubert's obscenity trial was developed to placate the censors. The highlight of the film is an elaborately choreographed ball sequence set to composer Miklós Rózsa's lush film score.

The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration in 1950 for Cedric Gibbons, Jack Martin Smith, Edwin B. Willis and Richard Pefferle.^[1]

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Plot

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Story of beautiful Emma Bovary (Jones), an adulteress who destroyed the lives of everyone she came in contact with, is narrated by Gustave Flaubert (Mason) who is on trial for writing an indecent novel Madame Bovary.

Cast

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Jennifer Jones as Emma Bovary
James Mason as Gustave Flaubert
Van Heflin as Charles Bovary
Louis Jourdan as Rodolphe Boulanger
Alf Kjellin (billed as Christopher Kent) as Leon Dupuis
Gene Lockhart as J. Homais
Frank Allenby as Lheureux
Gladys Cooper as Madame Dupuis

John Abbott as Mayor Tuvache
Harry Morgan as Hyppolyte
George Zucco as Dubocage
Ellen Corby as Félicité
Eduard Franz as Rouault
Henri Letondal as Guillaumin
Esther Somers as Madame Lefrançois

References

^ Staff writer (undated). "Madame Bovary (1949)". The New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/30674/Madame-Bovary/details. Retrieved January 8, 2010.

Epstein, Edward J. (1995). Portrait of Jennifer. New York, Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-74056-3.
Minnelli, Vincente (1990). I Remember It Well. New York, Samuel French ISBN 0-573-60607-2.

External links

Madame Bovary at the Internet Movie Database
Madame Bovary at the TCM Movie Database
Madame Bovery at Allmovie
^{[unreliable source?]}Madame Bovary page at Jennifer Jones fan website

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1940s	Cabin in the Sky (1943) • I Dood It (1943) • Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) • The Clock (1945) • Yolanda and the Thief (1945) • Ziegfeld Follies (with Lemuel Ayres, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Merrill Pye and George Sidney) (1946) • Undercurrent (1946) • The Pirate (1947) • Madame Bovary (1949)

1950s	Father of the Bride (1950) • Father's Little Dividend (1951) • An American in Paris (1951) • The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) • The Story of Three Loves (with Gottfried Reinhardt) (1953) • The Band Wagon (1953) • The Long, Long Trailer (1954) • Brigadoon (1954) • The Cobweb (1955) • Kismet (1955) • Lust for Life (1956) • Tea and Sympathy (1956) • Designing Woman (1957) • Gigi (1958) • The Reluctant Debutante (1958) • Some Came Running (1958)

1960s	Home from the Hill (1960) • Bells Are Ringing (1960) • Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962) • Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) • The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963) • Goodbye Charlie (1964) • The Sandpiper (1967)

1970s	On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970) • A Matter of Time (1976)

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Madame Bovary (1949 film)

Contents

Plot

Cast

See also

References

External links