| Madame Bovary | |
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| Directed by | Vincente Minnelli |
| Screenplay by | Robert Ardrey |
| Based on | Madame Bovary 1857 novel by Gustave Flaubert |
| Produced by | Pandro S. Berman |
| Starring | Jennifer Jones Van Heflin Louis Jourdan James Mason |
| Narrated by | James Mason |
| Cinematography | Robert H. Planck |
| Edited by | Ferris Webster |
| Music by | Miklós Rózsa |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| 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]
- ^ a b "Madame Bovary". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
- ^ a b Glancy, H. M. (1992). "MGM film grosses, 1924–1948: The Eddie Mannix Ledger". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 12 (2): 127–144. doi:10.1080/01439689200260081.
- ^ "Madame Bovary (1949)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-10-18. Retrieved January 8, 2010.