Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

1949 | 1h 58m | Drama, Romance | TV-PG

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Brief Synopsis

In 1857 France, Emma marries a widower to escape home but soon grows disillusioned. Drawn first into a passionate affair with lawyer, then an aristocrat, and finally a desperate lover, she realizes she cannot escape the prison of her time, class, and sex.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Vincente Minnelli

CAST

Jennifer Jones

Van Heflin

Louis Jourdan

James Mason

Alf Kjellin

Gene Lockhart

Frank Allenby

Gladys Cooper

John Abbott

Harry Morgan

George Zucco

PRODUCERS

Pandro S. Berman

WRITERS

Robert Ardrey

Gustave Flaubert

Host Intros

01:48
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- Madame Bovary (1949)
Intro Aired: Sep 2017
Ben Mankiewicz introduces Madame Bovary, 1949.

Related Videos

03:47
Madame Bovary (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Monstrous She May Be
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Through Vincente Minnelli's narrative device, author Gustave Flaubert (James Mason) from his trial for his novel's moral infractions, introduces his characters, chiefly Charles Bovary (Van Heflin) and Emma (Jennifer Jones), from the 1949 MGM version of Madame Bovary.
03:46
Madame Bovary (1949) -- (Movie Clip) I Demand The Privilege
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Emma (Jennifer Jones), arriving at the long-awaited ball hosted by Marquis D'Andervilliers (Paul Cavanagh) with her hesitant husband Charles (Van Heflin), director Vincente Minnelli goes to work, choreography by Jack Donohoe, camera by Robert Planck, in Madame Bovary, 1949.
Madame Bovary (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Unfailing Taste
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Early consumerism, title character (Jennifer Jones) with foppish friend Leon (Christopher Kent) and obsequious merchant Lhereux (Frank Allenby), furnishing things, in Vincente Minnelli's Madame Bovary, 1949.
Madame Bovary (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Someone Will Pay
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Creditor Lhereux (Frank Allenby) beginning to tighten the screws on Emma (Jennifer Jones), who's off to Italy in secret, in Vincente Minneii's version of Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary 1949.
Madame Bovary (1949) -- (Movie Clip) You Are In Trouble
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Emma (Jennifer Jones) is confronted by the hard-edged Lhereux (Frank Allenby), in Vincente Minnelli's searing 1949 version of the Flaubert novel, Madame Bovary.
03:06
Madame Bovary (1949) - (Original Trailer)
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A romantic country girl sacrifices her marriage when she thinks she's found true love in Madame Bovary (1949) starring Jennifer Jones.

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