Madame Bovary (1949)
August 25, 1949Release Date
Madame Bovary (1949)
August 25, 1949Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Jennifer Jones
Emma Bovary
James Mason
Gustave Flaubert
Van Heflin
Charles Bovary
Louis Jourdan
Rodolphe Boulanger
Alf Kjellin
Leon Dupuis
Gene Lockhart
J. Homais
Frank Allenby
Lhereux
Gladys Cooper
Mme. Dupuis
John Abbott
Mayor Tuvache
Harry Morgan
Hyppolite
George Zucco
Dubocage
Ellen Corby
Félicité
Vincente Minnelli
Director
Robert Ardrey
Writer
Eduard Franz
Rouault
Henri Letondal
Guillaumin
Gustave Flaubert
Writer
Esther Somers
Madame Lefrançois
Pandro S. Berman
Producer
Paul Cavanagh
Marquis D'Andervilliers
Miklós Rózsa
Composer
Robert H. Planck
Cinematographer
Frederic Tozere
Pinard
Larry Sims
Justin
Ferris Webster
Editor
Dawn Kinney
Berthe
Vernon Steele
Priest
Edith Evanson
Mother Superior (uncredited)
Paul Bryar
Bailiff (uncredited)
Edward Keane
Presiding Judge (uncredited)
George Davis
Innkeeper (uncredited)
Florence Auer
Mme. Petree (uncredited)
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Madame Bovary is a 1949 American romantic drama, a film adaptation of the classic 1857 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 ran from mid-December 1948 to mid-March 1949 and the film premiered the following August.The story of a frivolous and adulterous wife 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. One famous sequence of the film is an elaborately choreographed ball sequence set to composer Miklós Rózsa's 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.