Category: Biography
All Genres: Biography, Drama, History
Release Year: 1943
Country: USA
Runtime: 156
Rating: 7.3 (0)
Languages: English, French
Director: Henry King
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Here is greatness . . . wonder . . . and majesty . . . no human words can describe!

Writing by: George Seaton - (screenplay)
Franz Werfel - (novel)

Produced by: William Perlberg - producer

Cast: William Eythe - Antoine Nicolau
Charles Bickford - Father Peyramale
Vincent Price - Prosecutor Vital Dutour
Lee J. Cobb - Dr. Dozous
Gladys Cooper - Sister Marie Therese Vauzous
Anne Revere - Louise Soubirous
Roman Bohnen - François Soubirous
Mary Anderson - Jeanne Abadie
Patricia Morison - Empress Eugenie
Aubrey Mather - Mayor Lacade
Charles Dingle - Jacomet

Music: Alfred Newman
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Plot Outline: In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump...
Plot: In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the the town, and transforms their lives.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The credits say "Introducing Jennifer Jones as Bernadette", even though Jones had already appeared in several films under her real name, Phyllis Isley.

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When the Lady asks Bernadette to wash herself in the spring, Bernadette digs a hole and smears her face and hands with dark black mud. Moments later as the onlookers mock her, her aunt and mother take her away and the mud is gone from both her hands, while only slight fingermarks of mud remain on her cheeks.

Trivia: There are 10 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• The film played continuously at a special theater in Lourdes dedicated to it exclusively.
• Using an actress to play "the lady" was controversial enough, and further controversy fulminated when Loretta Young was passed over in favour of sultry Linda Darnell. At that time, Darnell had an almost pornographic reputation. Franz Werfel, the author of the book on which the film was based, threatened to remove his name from the project. To make matters worse, Darnell was pregnant. Nothing would change Darryl F. Zanucks mind, and Werfel was told that an unknown actress was chosen. Wearing a little more drapery than the simple dress and veil described by the historical Bernadette, Darnell played the role in bright light.
• Jennifer Jones had made other films before this, but only under her real name, Phyllis Isley. In an effort to make the public believe that she was "discovered" for this film, her screen credit reads "and introducing Jennifer Jones as Bernadette."

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