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Marie-Antoinette

Titre original : Marie Antoinette
  • 1938
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  • 2h 29min
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Norma Shearer in Marie-Antoinette (1938)
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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueThe tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.

  • Réalisation
    • W.S. Van Dyke
    • Julien Duvivier
  • Scénario
    • Claudine West
    • Donald Ogden Stewart
    • Ernest Vajda
  • Casting principal
    • Norma Shearer
    • Tyrone Power
    • John Barrymore
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
  • NOTE IMDb
    7,3/10
    3,5 k
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    • Réalisation
      • W.S. Van Dyke
      • Julien Duvivier
    • Scénario
      • Claudine West
      • Donald Ogden Stewart
      • Ernest Vajda
    • Casting principal
      • Norma Shearer
      • Tyrone Power
      • John Barrymore
    • 85avis d'utilisateurs
    • 16avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
    • Nommé pour 4 Oscars
      • 5 victoires et 5 nominations au total

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    Norma Shearer
    Norma Shearer
    • Marie Antoinette
    Tyrone Power
    Tyrone Power
    • Count Axel de Fersen
    John Barrymore
    John Barrymore
    • King Louis XV
    Robert Morley
    Robert Morley
    • King Louis XVI
    Anita Louise
    Anita Louise
    • Princesse de Lamballe
    Joseph Schildkraut
    Joseph Schildkraut
    • Duke d'Orléans
    Gladys George
    Gladys George
    • Mme. du Barry
    Henry Stephenson
    Henry Stephenson
    • Count de Mercey
    Cora Witherspoon
    Cora Witherspoon
    • Countess de Noailles
    Barnett Parker
    Barnett Parker
    • Prince de Rohan
    Reginald Gardiner
    Reginald Gardiner
    • Comte d'Artois
    Henry Daniell
    Henry Daniell
    • La Motte
    Leonard Penn
    Leonard Penn
    • Toulan
    Albert Dekker
    Albert Dekker
    • Comte de Provence
    • (as Albert Van Dekker)
    Alma Kruger
    Alma Kruger
    • Empress Maria Theresa
    Joseph Calleia
    Joseph Calleia
    • Drouet
    George Meeker
    George Meeker
    • Robespierre
    Scotty Beckett
    Scotty Beckett
    • The Dauphin
    • Réalisation
      • W.S. Van Dyke
      • Julien Duvivier
    • Scénario
      • Claudine West
      • Donald Ogden Stewart
      • Ernest Vajda
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    8Andrew_Eskridge

    Rediscovering Norma Shearer

    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 mostly 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.

    In recent years, Shearer has gained new respect for her silent and pre-code films, in which she was one of the most accomplished young actresses of the era. She often played sexually sophisticated women with a sly wit. She was not a typical ingénue, and you can see why audiences of the time were enchanted by her.
    dbdumonteil

    Bye history,hello novel!

    A legend in France tells that Julien Duvivier was involved in this film;if he really did something,it was probably minimal;an educated man like him would have been scared by the numerous historical errors of the film.

    Here are some of them: -Never Louis XV spoke of sending the dauphine back to where she once belonged,in Austria.The quarrel with Madame du Barry is pure fiction:M.A. spoke once to the favorite ,she said " There are many people here today in Versailles."She never addressed her afterward.

    -Louis XVI was not the moron we see in the film.He was actually an educated man.When he was in jail,he would teach his son maths,history ,geography and other subjects.He was not made to be king,that's true ,and all that follows Louis XV 's death is accurate .He reportedly said to his distraught wife :"What a misfortune,we're too young to reign!".He used to go hunting (his favorite pastime) but he was not the half-wit depicted in Van Dyke's film.

    -The Royal family was not imprisoned in Le Temple just after the night of Varennes.That escape took place on the 20th of June 1791.The storming of the Tuileries (not included in the movie for a good reason)happened on August ,the 10th 1792;the fall of the monarchy and the Republic followed in September the same year.

    -But the queen's last night takes the biscuit!Fersen in her dungeon,no less!

    Forget history,and you have a wonderful show,a novel based on M.A.'s life.There are many remarkable things all along the viewing: M.A. in the corridors of her palace,in Vienna ,where her mother tells her "You shall be queen of France" . The sentence will come back ,quite rightly so,in the last pictures.

    The affair of the necklace,told in admirable succinct style;the scene when the queen learns that the cardinal de Rohan is free ,while arriving at the opera theater,is a great dramatic idea.

    The longest night of June,which tragically ended in Varenne is given an adequate dark treatment where only the torches lighten the forest or the village.

    The scene which climaxes the movie is the Royal family's last supper.Here Robert Morley transcends the limitation he is working under ,and makes Louis XVI a clever sensitive man :the rapport he has with his child was obvious in real life and all rings true.The broken soldier's story will intensely move you.Besides ,it was a good idea to film M.A.'s and the dauphin's separation just after the king's death (actually ,the king died on the 21th of January 1793,and M.A. was separated from her child in the following Summer) cause it increases tenfold the queen's tragedy.This scene lasted one hour!one hour! When she left LE Temple for la Conciergerie (where you can visit her dungeon today),the queen said:"Nothing can hurt me now."
    10benoit-3

    Top Ten Reasons why "Marie Antoinette" is quite possibly the best movie ever made in Hollywood

    10. The script

    Uncredited as a scriptwriter is novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. His love scenes are extremely elaborate and exquisitely structured. They also introduce innovations that have since become clichés and the hallmark of 'women pictures' everywhere.

    9. The actors

    Barrymore is unforgettable as the regally cranky Louis XV. Morley gives one of his best interpretations. Schildkraut plays the best two-faced villain of his entire body of work. As for Power... remember the anecdote about the reporter asking romance-writer Barbara Cartland (Lady Di's stepmother) how she could possibly have written so many romance novels before she was even married and while she was still a virgin? Her answer was: 'Oh! We didn't have sex in those days. We had Tyrone Power.'

    8. The director

    Van Dyke was an expert at handling large crowds and acts of God. His directing style was a compromise between time-efficiency and giving the stars leeway as long as they respected the general style of the piece. This 'honour system' seems to have encouraged the actors to do their homework and present a credible, coherent performance every time. He also got an assist here from uncredited French genius Julien Duvivier.

    7. Artistic direction

    What can you say about a period film that tackled the challenge of recreating Versailles in the XVIIIth century on the MGM back lot? The production values are staggering. The Gallery of Mirrors is actually longer, higher and wider than the original. The costumes tread a fine line between historical accuracy (covered shoulders and revealed cleavage) and the requirements of the movie code (exposed shoulders were tolerated but bosoms had to be covered) but still manage to convey the era and the fairy-tale quality of Marie's court. The costumes were also specially constructed to shine, glitter and shimmer on black and white film.

    6. Historical accuracy

    The film's script is based (in part) on Stefan Zweig's groundbreaking biography of the Queen, "Marie Antoinette, Portrait of an Ordinary Woman", which tried to create the first accurate, adult, factual but Freudian-inspired narrative of the Queen's life by using documents and correspondence that had long been overlooked or suppressed. The book was the first to reveal Louis XVI's mechanical sexual problems, which prevented his consummating the marriage during its first seven years (until a slight surgical intervention) and explained in turn the Queen's extravagant spendthrift personality, in Freudian terms, as extreme sexual frustration. This story actually makes it to the screen in a large degree. Compare this to recent biopics like "A Beautiful Mind", whose scriptwriters conveniently 'forget' essential but non-mainstream plot elements like the fact that John Nash's paranoia may have been caused or amplified by the McCarthy era persecution of homosexuals. Some historical events have been telescoped into one another in order to accommodate the general American public's limited understanding of French history and the Orléans character was used to maintain tension by representing the turncoat part of the nobility which exploited MA for their own various agendas.

    5. The music

    Herbert Stothart may not be a household word but he did win an Oscar for his original score to "The Wizard of Oz", based, of course in part on Harold Arlen's melodies. Besides giving Miss Gulch/the Wicked Witch her immortal theme, he is also one half of the composing team that produced the operetta "Rose Marie". Stothart shines in two respects: the approximate recreation of XVIIIth century dance music in the court scenes, emphasizing the bored grandeur of the proceedings, and the psychological music that accompanies everything from exciting chase scenes to the love scenes between Shearer and Tyrone. Note especially the use of the harpsichord in a rupture scene between Orléans and MA and the use of the viola d'amour in the garden love scene.

    4. The cinematography

    MA is in 'glorious black and white', but especially in the escape to Varennes sequence which has the most credible - and suspenseful - 'day for night' sequence ever filmed. The marriage scene may have inspired Queen Elizabeth II's coronation. Also notable are the matte paintings, the overwhelming use of cranes to move in on particular characters in a crowd scene and the chiaroscuro of the last meeting with Fersen.

    3. Detail and scope

    Every scene has something special added to it in characterization, movement, rhythm, lighting, art direction, choreography (and not just in the dance scenes). The costumes could have starred in a picture by themselves.

    2. The lost art of story-telling

    This film was planned with intelligence and skill and was built around the principle stated by Selznick when filming GWTW: 'The secret of adapting a book to the screen is to give the impression that you are adapting a book to the screen.' Which means that many literary devices are used to give the story many interesting arcs and recurring themes. The story is well balanced in terms of spectacular action, recreation of important historical events (giving the impression of the passage of time) and intimate scenes. It is truly 'the intimate epic' that Mankiewicz's 'Cleopatra' was supposed to be. Need I add I am really dreading the Sofia Coppola version...

    1. Norma Shearer

    Norma Shearer is an unjustly forgotten star of the first magnitude. MA is permanent testament to her uncanny abilities. In this film she portrays the main character from the age of sixteen to her death as a prematurely aged and debilitated woman of 38, all with perfect verisimilitude, thanks to her magnificent vocal instrument and stage presence. As a fairy-queen, she makes Cate Blanchett as Galadriel (in LOTR) look like Carol Burnett's charwoman. Her virtuosity as the fated widowed Queen is all the more poignant when one realizes that at the time she was Thalberg's widow in her last husband-approved venture and that the Hollywood suits were rapidly closing in on her.
    8HotToastyRag

    Surprisingly well-acted and crafted

    Here at The Rag, we've learned our lesson: No matter what, give a movie a chance. Just give a movie ten minutes, and if you still hate it as much as you thought you would, feel free to turn it off. If the movie stars an actress you despise, contains a supporting cast you don't normally like, and centers on a subject of which you have no interest, you just might find yourself riveted and impressed. What movie made us learn our lesson? Marie Antoinette, starring Norma Shearer, someone whose movies we'd previously avoided.

    The first fifteen minutes of this movie are incredible. Adrian's costumes belong in a museum, as gown after gown after gown are breathtaking, and surprisingly did not bring home an Oscar for the remarkable designer. The Academy Awards didn't have an Oscar for costume design until 1948, which, when you think of all the incredible costumes present in the 1930s and 1940s, is shocking. The art direction, while awarded with a nomination, was passed over in favor of The Adventures of Robin Hood. The incredible sets laden with paintings, chandeliers, rugs, beautiful dishes, jewels, ballroom decorations, draperies, bedroom pieces, and other furniture, was passed over for a forest. When you watch this movie, you'll realize how silly that is. Another silliness is the lack of nominations for Best Picture and Best Director for W.S. Van Dyke. This is a large-scale, expensive, lush epic, and it's ridiculous to look back at Frank Capra's wins for You Can't Take It With You when Marie Antoinette wasn't even nominated.

    This heavy epic chronicles Marie's time from age fourteen until her death. Norma Shearer is given an enormous amount to do, and she does it very well. She has to be giddy and young, excited for her marriage, disappointed, afraid, frivolous, betrayed, in love, a mother, and finally, destroyed. As a young girl, she gets betrothed to the soon-to-be King of France, and her wedding night with Robert Morley is an especially emotional scene. They both give excellent performances, and since I normally can't stand either, it's quite a compliment from me. Robert is simple and an introvert who doesn't want to expose himself to potential ridicule, and Norma just wants to be a good wife. When she realizes her marriage will be different than promised, she turns to material pleasures and surface relationships to make her happy.

    With a supporting cast of Joseph Schildkraut as an enormously slimy villain, Gladys George as the famous du Barry, John Barrymore as an ailing king, Tyrone Power as the pretty but poorly acted love interest, and Henry Stephenson as a sympathetic ear, there are plenty of varied scenes in this long movie to keep you interested. As one of the earliest films to have an intermission, overture, and entr'acte, this takes a bit of the epic factor out of the following year's Gone With the Wind, which boasted of being the grandest epic of all time. Marie Antoinette is one of the great classics that is dramatic without being grotesque and manages to win you over even if you don't expect to be. Well done, Norma.
    7Doylenf

    MGM's lavish look at the French Revolution...a Shearer triumph...

    MGM's lavishly budgeted look at the French Revolution during the reign of King Louis and his famously selfish MARIE ANTOINETTE spares no expense in detailing the grim background of court conspiracies and the people's unrest that led to their downfall.

    Too bad none of this eye-popping splendor wasn't captured in Technicolor, as originally planned--but with a budget well over 1.5 million it was decided to film it in glorious B&W. No matter, it's still a spectacle for sore eyes.

    There can be no doubt about NORMA SHEARER's triumph in the title role nor is any of the acting in the large cast below standard. ROBERT MORLEY as the weak and indecisive Louis is immensely touching and effective as he realizes the gravity of their predicament. JOHN BARRYMORE is fine and Joseph SCHILDKRAUT is wonderful as an aristocratic fop. TYRONE POWER lends his romantic presence to a role that requires little more than his good looks. He and Shearer make a physically appealing romantic team.

    It's interesting that Irving Thalberg died before production began on the film. One wonders whether his influence on it might have made it an even stronger production. There are definite lulls in the telling but it builds dramatically to all of the final scenes. It's the kind of film that leads one to read more about the actual events and that's always a good thing.

    Summing up: Sumptuously produced, well acted and well directed--what more could you want for an interesting glimpse of a life of royalty among a time of social upheaval? Shearer's triumphant return to the screen after a two-year absence.

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    • Anecdotes
      According to Wikipedia, the movie had thousands of costumes and lavish set designs. Adrian visited France and Austria in 1937 researching the period. He studied the paintings of Marie Antoinette, even using a microscope on them so that the embroidery and fabric could be identical. Fabrics were specially woven and embroidered with stitches sometimes too fine to be seen with the naked eye. The attention to detail was extreme, from the framework to hair. Some gowns became extremely heavy due to the embroidery, flounces and precious stones used. Norma Shearer's gowns alone had a combined weight of over 1,768 lb., the heaviest being the wedding dress.
    • Gaffes
      At the time of their wedding, the Dauphin, Louis, was 15 and Marie Antoinette was 14. Norma Shearer could (barely) get away with portraying a 14-year-old (as she portrayed a 13-year-old Juliet in ROMEO AND JULIET (1936) because many noble/royal females were more mature and had regal bearing), but Robert Morley looked 35, not 15.
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      Marie Antoinette: I once thought if I were queen, I'd be so happy. To be applauded and adored and obeyed. I don't want it now. I just want to be free. To be with you. To love you. I cannot wear a crown upon my heart.

    • Versions alternatives
      "Unrestored" film has now been restored and is available on DVD. When the film played the Carthay Circle in Los Angeles and the Astor Theatre in New York as a reserved seat "road show" attraction, the print ran eleven minutes longer than the generally available 149 minute Turner Library print. These eleven minutes contained an overture, entr'acte, and exit music, with an intermission immediately following Antoinette's emotional farewell to Fersen on the steps of Versailles. These remnants of the "road show" presentation have now been restored to the new Warner Bros. Home Video DVD, which runs a little over 157 minutes.
    • Connexions
      Edited into Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
    • Bandes originales
      Amour Eternal Amour
      (1939) (uncredited)

      Written by Bob Wright, Herbert Stothart and Chet Forrest

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    • Date de sortie
      • 23 mars 1939 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • María Antonieta
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Chateau de Versailles, Versailles, Yvelines, France(palace backgrounds)
    • Société de production
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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      • 2 926 000 $US (estimé)
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    • Durée
      2 heures 29 minutes
    • Rapport de forme
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