The Song of Bernadette( 1943)

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

Overview

In 1858 Lourdes, 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.

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Jennifer Jones
Bernadette
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
Edith Barrett
Croisine Bouhouhorts
Sig Ruman
Louis Bouriette
Blanche Yurka
Aunt Bernarde Casterot
Ermadean Walters
Marie Soubirous
Marcel Dalio
Callet
Pedro de Cordoba
Dr. LeCramps
Jerome Cowan
Emperor Louis Napoleon III
Charles Waldron
Bishop of Tarbes (uncredited)
Linda Darnell
The Virgin Mary (uncredited)
Edward Fielding
Doctor with Empress' Baby (uncredited)
Fernanda Eliscu
Townswoman (uncredited)
Edward Keane
Policeman (uncredited)
Mae Marsh
Madame Blanche - Townswoman (uncredited)
Alan Napier
Dr. Debeau
Tala Birell
Madame Leontine Bruat

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Jun 26 2022

Jennifer Jones turns in an engaging performance as the eponymous girl, living in mid-19th Century France, who claims to have received divine communications in a grotto near her local village of Lourdes. Unsurprisingly, she faces a fairly sceptical clergy and state but her fellow villagers lap it all up. That enthusiasm soon spreads and soon - like it or not - she is a phenomenon that has drawn the attention of the Empress Eugenie herself. Her problems only worsen when she is finally accepted, and validated by her church and she takes up residence in a nunnery where she is respected and resented...