Marie Antoinette

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1938-08-26

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

149 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (1988 Reviews)

Director:

W.S. Van Dyke Julien Duvivier

Genres:

Biography Drama History

Cast:

Norma Shearer Tyrone Power John Barrymore Robert Morley

Writer:

Claudine West (screen play)

Donald Ogden Stewart (screen play)

Ernest Vajda (screen play)

Stefan Zweig (based in part on the book by)

Fullplot:

The life of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) from betrothal and marriage in 1770 to her beheading. At first, she's a Hapsburg teenager isolated in France, living a virgin's life in the household of the Dauphin, a shy solitary man who would like to be a locksmith. Marie discovers high society, with the help of Orleans and her brothers-in-law. Her foolishness is at its height when she meets a Swedish count, Axel de Fersen. He helps her see her fecklessness. In the second half of the film, she avoids an annulment, becomes queen, bears children, and is a responsible ruler. The affair of the necklace and the general poverty of France feed revolution. She faces death with dignity.

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