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Marie Antoinette (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards
Venice Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
151 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1938 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
W.S. Van Dyke

Written By:
Claudine West
Donald Ogden Stewart

Actors:
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

Synopsis:

M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of M.G.M. Norma Shearer. Shearer plays the title role of an Austrian princess who is married off to Louis Auguste (Robert Morley), the Dauphin of France. Marie, by becoming the Dauphine, finds herself plopped smack in the middle of French palace intrigue between Louis's father King Louis XV (John Barrymore) and his scheming cousin, the Duke of Orleans (Joseph Schildkraut). With Louis unable to consummate his marriage to Marie, she takes to holding elaborate parties and gambling her fortune away. In a casino, she meets the handsome Count Axel de Fersen (Tyrone Power) and they have an affair. But when Louis XV dies and Louis becomes King Louis XVI, Fersen takes his leave, telling her that he could carry on an affair with a dauphine but not the Queen of France. Marie vows to be a great queen and remain loyal to her king. But the Duke of Orleans is plotting against Louis XVI, financing the revolutionary radicals. When the monarchy is overthrown, Louis and Marie are thrown into prison, awaiting execution. But when word gets back to Fersen, he travels back to France in an attempt to rescue Marie.

Sympathetic biopic of the 18th-century queen of France, Marie-Antoinette, who met her death on the guillotine during the French Revolution; based in part on a best-selling 1933 biography by Stefan Zweig. Starring the self-styled 'queen of MGM' (Norma Shearer) in the title role, 'Marie Antoinette' chronicles the queen's life from her carefree childhood in Austria to her infamous public death twenty years later. It covers her arranged marriage to the painfully shy King Louis the Sixteenth (Robert Morley) and the reckless extravagance she used to escape her misery and boredom. Finally, it shows Marie-Antoinette growing into dignity and maturity as she separates from her sweetheart, a dashing Swedish aristocrat (Tyrone Power), and supports her husband through the crisis of the monarchy, following him to prison and death.

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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