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The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette (Norma Shearer) is arranged to marry Louis XVI (Robert Morley), future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations, including Count Axel (Tyrone Power). When Louis XV (John Barrymore) passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.



Marie Antoinette (1938)
Released: 26 Aug 1938
Runtime: 149 min
Rated: PASSED
Director: W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier
Writer(s): Claudine West (screen play), Donald Ogden Stewart (screen play), Ernest Vajda (screen play), Stefan Zweig (based in part on the book by)
Actors: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley
Awards: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
IMDB Ratings: 7.6



Plot: The life of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) from betrothal and marriage in 1770 to her beheading. At first, she's a Hapsburg teenager isolated in France, living a virgin's life in the household of the Dauphin, a shy solitary man who would like to be a locksmith. Marie discovers high society, with the help of Orleans and her brothers-in-law. Her foolishness is at its height when she meets a Swedish count, Axel de Fersen. He helps her see her fecklessness. In the second half of the film, she avoids an annulment, becomes queen, bears children, and is a responsible ruler. The affair of the necklace and the general poverty of France feed revolution. She faces death with dignity.