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Madame Bovary

Whatever it is that French women have ... Madame Bovary had more of it!

1949 · 1h 46m

Directed by Vincente Minnelli

6.7

TMDB audience score
60 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragic consequences.

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Cast

  • 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
    Lheureux

  • Gladys Cooper
    Madame Dupuis

  • John Abbott
    Mayor Tuvache

  • Harry Morgan
    Hyppolite

  • George Zucco
    Dubocage

  • Ellen Corby
    Félicité

  • Eduard Franz
    Rouault

  • Henri Letondal
    Guillaumin

  • Esther Somers
    Madame Lefrançois

  • Paul Cavanagh
    Marquis D'Andervilliers

  • Frederic Tozere
    Pinard

  • Dawn Kinney
    Berthe