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Marie Antoinette

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NR,2hrs 40min

Genres:

Drama,Romance

Released:

January 1, 1938

Director:

W.S. Van Dyke

Distributor:

Warner Home Video

Starring:

Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore ...more

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 ... Full Synopsis

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	Hans J. Wollstein, AMG Review Stefan Zweig, on whose popular biography this opulent film was based, had great sympathy for the star-crossed Austrian princess who became queen of France mainly to stabilize relations between two crumbling empires. History has generally not been quite as kind although most sources agree on the lady's final acts of bravery. Noblesse, after all, oblige. Like Marie Antoinette, Norma Shearer was a dethroned ... Full Review

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	Norma Shearer Marie Antoinette Tyrone Power Count Axel de Fersen John Barrymore King Louis XV, Louis XV Robert Morley King Louis XVI, Louis XVI

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	The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) Marie Antoinette (2006)

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