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Lovely Emma Bovary longs for romance, glamour, possessions. Wed to a country doctor, she instead gets routine, motherhood and penny-pinching. So when she catches the eye of a handsome aristocrat, Emma risks all to reach for what she thinks will be happiness. Jennifer Jones stars in this lush adaptation of the Gustave Flaubert novel that scandalized 19th-century France. The film's capstone is the stunning ballroom scene, contrasting Emma's social success with her husband's failure, culminating in his drunken arrival on the dance floor. In the famed sequence, director Vincente Minnelli skillfully combines dissolves, cross-cuts, pans, long takes - a library of techniques - into a seamless triumph of head-spinning gaiety, heart-breaking despair and moviemaking artistry.
Original Release
08/25/1949
US Release
08/25/1949
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Cast
Name | Character |
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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 / Lheureux |
Gladys Cooper | Mme. Dupuis / Madame Dupuis |
John Abbott | Mayor Tuvache |
Harry Morgan | Hyppolite |
Directors
Writers
Robert Ardrey, Gustave Flaubert
Cast
Name | Character |
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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 / Lheureux |
Gladys Cooper | Mme. Dupuis / Madame Dupuis |
John Abbott | Mayor Tuvache |
Harry Morgan | Hyppolite |
George Zucco | DuBocage |
Ellen Corby | Félicité |
Eduard Franz | Roualt / Rouault |
Henri Letondal | Guillaumin |
Esther Somers | Mme. Lefrancois / Madame Lefrançois |
Frederic Tozere | Pinard |
Paul Cavanagh | Marquis D'Andervilliers |
Larry Simms | Justin |
Dawn Kinney | Berthe Bovary / Berthe |
Vernon Steele | Priest |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Pandro S. Berman | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1950 | Oscar | Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White | Nominated |