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Marie Antoinette

Year:

1938

Duration:

149 min | USA:157 min (original road show print including entry, intermission and exit music)

Genres:

Biography | Drama | History | Romance

IMDB rate:

7.7

Director:

W.S. Van Dyke

Awards:

Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 1 win & 1 nomination

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1938-08-26

Filming Locations: Chateau de Versailles, Versailles, Yvelines, France

Cast

Actor

Character

Scotty Beckett

Marie Antoinette

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

Alma Kruger

Empress Maria Theresa

Joseph Calleia

Drouet

George Meeker

Robespierre

Marilyn Knowlden

Princesse Thérèse

Erville Alderson

Passport Official (uncredited)

Richard Alexander

Man with Pike (uncredited)

Sam Ash

Rabblerouser (uncredited)

Bonnie Bannon

Girl (uncredited)

Trevor Bardette

Municipal Taking the Young Dauphin (uncredited)

Robert Barrat

Citizen-Officer (uncredited)

Ed Brady

Townsman at Execution (uncredited)

Thomas Braidon

Lackey (uncredited)

Al Bridge

Official in Passport Office (uncredited)

Peter Bull

Gamin (uncredited)

John Burton

Lafayette

Mae Busch

Mme. La Motte

John Butler

Second Municipal Taking the Young Dauphin (uncredited)

Frank Campeau

Lemonade Vendor (uncredited)

David Cavendish

Beauregard (uncredited)

Lane Chandler

Revolutionary Officer (uncredited)

Dorothy Christy

Lady in Waiting to Madame Du Barry (uncredited)

Ocean Claypool

Woman in Gaming House (uncredited)

Roger Converse

Man in Gaming House (uncredited)

Harry Cording

Executioner (uncredited)

Earl Covert

Singer in Death Chant (uncredited)

Wade Crosby

Danton

Cecil Cunningham

Mme. 'Feldy' de Lerchenfeld (uncredited)

Guy D'Ennery

Minister at King's Council (uncredited)

Howard Da Silva

Toulon (uncredited)

Harry Davenport

Monsieur de Cosse (uncredited)

Nigel De Brulier

Archbishop (uncredited)

Vernon Downing

Man in Gaming House (uncredited)

Claire Du Brey

Woman Yelling at Rabblerouser (uncredited)

Frank Elliott

King's Chamberlain (uncredited)

Billy Engle

Man with Goblet (uncredited)

Harold Entwistle

Old Aristocrat at Opera (uncredited)

Ann Evers

Woman in Gaming House (uncredited)

Al Ferguson

Soldier (uncredited)

Barry Fitzgerald

Peddler (uncredited)

Neil Fitzgerald

First Councilor (uncredited)

Jack George

Orchestra Leader (uncredited)

Maude Turner Gordon

Dowager (uncredited)

Greta Granstedt

Woman in Gaming House (uncredited)

Lawrence Grant

Old Nobleman at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited)

Jack Grey

Courtesan (uncredited)

Ben Hall

Young Man Fetching Priest (uncredited)

Ben Hendricks Jr.

National Guardsman (uncredited)

Holmes Herbert

Herald (uncredited)

Ramsay Hill

Major Domo (uncredited)

George Houston

Marquis De St. Priest (uncredited)

Esther Howard

Streetwalker (uncredited)

Mary Howard

Olivia (uncredited)

Hugh Huntley

Man in Opera Gallery (uncredited)

Arthur Hurni

Rabblerouser (uncredited)

Ruth Hussey

Duchess de Polignac

Olaf Hytten

Monsieur Boehmer - the Jeweler (uncredited)

Frank Jaquet

Keeper of the Seal (uncredited)

Edward Keane

General (uncredited)

Victor Kilian

Guard in Louis' Cell (uncredited)

Claude King

Choisell (uncredited)

George Kirby

Priest (uncredited)

Henry Kolker

Court Aide (uncredited)

Howard Lang

Franz (uncredited)

Duke R. Lee

Coach Driver (uncredited)

Harts Lind

Nurse (uncredited)

Jacques Lory

French Peasant (uncredited)

Frank McGlynn Jr.

Soldier with Rude Laugh (uncredited)

Horace McMahon

Rabblerouser (uncredited)

John Merton

Soldier Announcing Birth (uncredited)

Helene Millard

Lady in Waiting to Du Barry (uncredited)

Frances Millen

Lady in Waiting to Du Barry (uncredited)

M. Morova

Singer in Death Chant (uncredited)

Corbet Morris

LaRue (uncredited)

Leonard Mudie

Man Yelling 'Have You Proof?' (uncredited)

Bea Nigro

Woman at the Opera (uncredited)

Mimi Olivera

Lady in Waiting to Du Barry (uncredited)

Moroni Olsen

Bearded Leader of the People (uncredited)

Rafaela Ottiano

Louise - Marie's Maid (uncredited)

Claire Owen

Woman in Gaming House (uncredited)

Inez Palange

Fish Wife (uncredited)

Billy Platt

Midget in Student Ball Number (uncredited)

Guy Bates Post

Convention President (uncredited)

Alonzo Price

Second Guardsman (uncredited)

Tom Quinn

Rabblerouser (uncredited)

Herbert Rawlinson

Goguelot (uncredited)

'Little Billy' Rhodes

Midget in Student Ball Number (uncredited)

Buddy Roosevelt

Revolutionary Officer (uncredited)

Lionel Royce

Guillaume (uncredited)

Tom Rutherford

St. Clair (uncredited)

Brent Sargent

St. Pre (uncredited)

Harry Semels

Townsman at Execution (uncredited)

Allen D. Sewall

Citizen (uncredited)

Kathryn Sheldon

Mrs. Tilson - Setting the Table for Four (uncredited)

Ivan F. Simpson

Sauce

William Steele

Footman (uncredited)

Carl Stockdale

National Guardsman Bringing Toy Soldier (uncredited)

Harry Stubbs

Second Councilor (uncredited)

Frank Arthur Swales

Chimney Sweep (uncredited)

Phillip Terry

Man in Gaming House (uncredited)

Zeffie Tilbury

Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited)

Dorothy Tuttle

Minor Role (uncredited)

Theodore von Eltz

Officer in Entrance Hall (uncredited)

Gustav von Seyffertitz

King's Confessor (uncredited)

Charles Waldron

Swedish Ambassador (uncredited)

Walter Walker

Dr. Benjamin Franklin (uncredited)

Luana Walters

Woman in Gaming House (uncredited)

Anthony Warde

Marat

Lyons Wickland

Laclos (uncredited)

Tudor Williams

Singer in Death Chant (uncredited)

Eric Wilton

Juror (uncredited)

Ian Wolfe

Herbert - the Jailer (uncredited)

George Zucco

Governor of Conciergerie (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

From its initial inception up until right before the cameras started to roll, the film was designed to be shot in Technicolor. All of the sets and costumes were designed with color in mind. MGM went as far as to send the fox cape that Norma Shearer wears (to see Henry Stephenson on the night she becomes Queen) to New York to be specially dyed to match the blue of her eyes. Fearing that the addition of Technicolor would swell the already mammoth (for the time) $1.8-million budget, the production went before black-and-white cameras instead.

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The Los Angeles premiere was held at the legendary Carthay Circle Theatre, where the landscaping was specially decorated for the event.

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The gown and wig Norma Shearer wears in the scene where the people throw stones at her carriage is later worn by Lucille Ball in Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) and by Jean Hagen in Singin' in the Rain (1952).

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Goofs

In the lavish ball sequence at Versailles that appears to take place in the famous Hall of Mirrors, King Louis XV (and later, Mme du Pompadour) arrives by descending a huge flight of stairs. Yet the real Hall of Mirrors has no stairs, at either end.

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The stately minuet heard at the lavish ball sequence hosted by the Duc D'Orleans at Versailles, is from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, which was composed in 1787. A few moments after the Minuet ends, King Louis XV arrives. He died in 1774 and therefore, this music could not possibly have been played at such an event as it had yet to be written.

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Quotes

Marie: Perhaps the great loves come with tears.

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Marie: You thought of me as something quite wonderful, didn't you? But instead you found an empty-headed, ill-mannered little fool. You see, monsieur, how sadly I am changed.

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Marie: I think I've known you would come. You promised to, you know?

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