Madame Bovary (1949 film)

Madame Bovary
Theatrical release poster
Directed byVincente Minnelli
Screenplay byRobert Ardrey
Based onMadame Bovary
1857 novel
by Gustave Flaubert
Produced byPandro S. Berman
StarringJennifer Jones
Van Heflin
Louis Jourdan
James Mason
Narrated byJames Mason
CinematographyRobert H. Planck
Edited byFerris Webster
Music byMiklós Rózsa
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
August 25, 1949 (1949-08-25) (New York)[1]
Running time
106 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2,076,000[2]
Box office$2,016,000[2]

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.[1]

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.[3]

  1. ^ a b "Madame Bovary". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  2. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  3. ^ "Madame Bovary (1949)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-10-18. Retrieved January 8, 2010.

Madame Bovary (1949 film)

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