Drama

The Song of Bernadette

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

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.

Release Date : 1943-12-21

Language :FrenchEnglish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : 20th Century Fox

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Bernadette

Original Name : Jennifer Jones

Gender : Female

Character Name : Antoine Nicolau

Original Name : William Eythe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Father Peyramale

Original Name : Charles Bickford

Gender : Male

Character Name : Prosecutor Vital Dutour

Original Name : Vincent Price

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dr. Dozous

Original Name : Lee J. Cobb

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sister Marie Therese Vauzous

Original Name : Gladys Cooper

Gender : Female

Character Name : Louise Soubirous

Original Name : Anne Revere

Gender : Female

Character Name : François Soubirous

Original Name : Roman Bohnen

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jeanne Abadie

Original Name : Mary Anderson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Empress Eugenie

Original Name : Patricia Morison

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mayor Lacade

Original Name : Aubrey Mather

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jacomet

Original Name : Charles Dingle

Gender : Male

Character Name : Croisine Bouhouhorts

Original Name : Edith Barrett

Gender : Female

Character Name : Louis Bouriette

Original Name : Sig Ruman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Aunt Bernarde Casterot

Original Name : Blanche Yurka

Gender : Female

Character Name : Marie Soubirous

Original Name : Ermadean Walters

Gender : Female

Character Name : Callet

Original Name : Marcel Dalio

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dr. LeCramps

Original Name : Pedro de Cordoba

Gender : Male

Character Name : Emperor Louis Napoleon III

Original Name : Jerome Cowan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bishop of Tarbes (uncredited)

Original Name : Charles Waldron

Gender : Male

Character Name : The Virgin Mary (uncredited)

Original Name : Linda Darnell

Gender : Female

Character Name : Doctor with Empress' Baby (uncredited)

Original Name : Edward Fielding

Gender : Male

Character Name : Townswoman (uncredited)

Original Name : Fernanda Eliscu

Gender : Male

Character Name : Policeman (uncredited)

Original Name : Edward Keane

Gender : Male

Character Name : Madame Blanche - Townswoman (uncredited)

Original Name : Mae Marsh

Gender : Female

Character Name : Dr. Debeau

Original Name : Alan Napier

Gender : Male

Character Name : Madame Leontine Bruat

Original Name : Tala Birell

Gender : Female

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-06-26

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 in pretty much equal measure. Cynics may cast aspersions on the reasons behind the casting of Jones in this film, but nobody could argue that her performance is anything other than perfect. She has an innocence that lends well to the plausibility of her charming, unassuming persona and of her pretty turbulent - and short - life too. Charles Bickford also delivers well as her initially suspicious parish priest as do local magistrate "Dutour" (Vincent Price) and doctor "Dozous" (Lee J. Cobb). The writing is maybe not the most significant element of the story, indeed it is a bit vapid at times, but the story quite successfully captivates even now, 80 years later.