Marie-Antoinette is an American film, made in 1938 by WS Van Dyke .
He developed the difficult relationship between King Louis XVI ( Robert Morley ) and Queen Marie Antoinette ( Norma Shearer ) and the love affair of the latter with Fersen ( Tyrone Power ). This is a romantic Hollywood film.
Technical sheet
- Title: Marie-Antoinette
- Original title: Marie Antoinette
- Director: WS Van Dyke
- Assistant Director: Jacques Tourneur (uncredited)
- Production: Irving Thalberg (uncredited) and Hunt Stromberg
- Production company: Loew’s and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Scenario: Donald Ogden Stewart , Ernest Vajda and Claudine West , F. Scott Fitzgerald (uncredited) based on Stefan Zweig’s story
- Music: Herbert Stothart
- Choreographer: Albertina Rasch
- Pictures: William H. Daniels , George J. Folsey (uncredited) and Leonard Smith (uncredited)
- Editing: Robert Kern
- Artistic direction: Cedric Gibbons
- Sets: William A. Horning and Edwin B. Willis
- Costumes: Adrian and Gile Steele
- Hairstyles: Sydney Guilaroff
- Wigs: Max Factor
- Makeup: Jack Dawn
- Sound: Douglas Shearer
- Country of origin: United States
- Format: Black and White (Sepiatone) – Sound: Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
- Genre: Historical Movie
- Duration: 149 minutes
- Release dates:
- United States :(first in Los Angeles ), (national release)
- United Kingdom :
- France :
Distribution
Marie-Antoinette (Norma Shearer) and Count Axel of Fersen (Tyrone Power) kissing each other
- Actors credited
- Norma Shearer : Queen Marie Antoinette of Austria
- Tyrone Power : Count Axel of Fersen
- John Barrymore : King Louis XV
- Robert Morley : King Louis XVI
- Anita Louise : Princess of Lamballe
- Joseph Schildkraut : Duke of Orleans
- Gladys George : Madame du Barry
- Henry Stephenson : Earl of Mercy
- Cora Witherspoon : Countess of Noailles
- Reginald Gardiner : Comte d’Artois
- Henry Daniell : Nicolas of La Motte
- Albert Dekker : Count of Provence
- Joseph Calleia : Drouet
- George Meeker : Robespierre
- Alma Kruger : Empress Maria Theresa
- Uncredited Actors (Selection)
- Robert Barrat : Officer Citizen
- John Burton : The Fayette
- Mae Busch : Countess of La Motte
- Frank Campeau : Lemonade seller
- Lane Chandler : Officer Citizen
- Wade Crosby : Danton
- Cecil Cunningham : M me ‘Feldy’ Lerchenfeld
- Howard Da Silva : Toulon
- Harry Davenport : Monsieur de Cosse
- Maude Turner Gordon : Dowager
- Lawrence Grant : Old aristocrat at the birth of the dolphin
- Ruth Hussey : Duchess of Polignac
- Claude King : Duc de Choiseul
- Henry Kolker : Court Help
- Duke R. Lee
- Horace McMahon : Revolutionary
- Rafaela Ottiano : Louise, servant of the queen
- Ivan F. Simpson : Sauce
- Theodore von Eltz : Officer
- Gustav von Seyffertitz : Confessor of the King
- Charles Waldron : Ambassador of Sweden
- Walter Walker : Benjamin Franklin
- George Zucco : Governor of the Conciergerie
Bibliography
- Sylvie Dallet , The French Revolution and Cinema: From Light to Television , Éditions des Quatre-Vents, coll. “Cinema and its history”,, 240 p. ( ISBN 2-907468-04-9 , online presentation [ archive ] )
(Work from a doctoral thesis on film and television, defended in 1987 at the University Paris- X Nanterre in front of Serge Bernstein , Marc Ferro and Paul Gerbod, [ online presentation [ archive ] ] .)