Le Destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary
Le Destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary | |
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Directed by | Sacha Guitry with the technical collaboration of René Le Hénaff |
Written by | Sacha Guitry |
Starring |
Jean-Louis Barrault Aimé Clariond Gaby Morlay Yvette Lebon |
Music by | Adolphe Borchard |
Release dates | September 5, 1942 |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Le Destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary (Mlle. Desiree) is a French film released in September 1942, black and white, written and directed by Sacha Guitry. The film concerns the life of Désirée Clary, the daughter of a Marseilles merchant, who became Queen of Sweden and the founder of a dynasty.
Plot
Julie and Désirée Clary are courted by the brothers Joseph and Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph marries Julie and Napoleon is affianced to Désirée. When Napoleon breaks the engagement and marries Joséphine de Beauharnais, Désirée becomes involved with General Bernadotte
Cast
- Sacha Guitry : narrator
- Jean-Louis Barrault : Napoléon Bonaparte
- Aimé Clariond : Joseph Bonaparte
- Jacques Varennes : Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, then Charles XIV John of Sweden
- Geneviève Guitry : Désirée Clary, as a young woman
- Gaby Morlay : Désirée Clary
- Lise Delamare : Joséphine de Beauharnais
- Yvette Lebon : Julie Clary
- Camille Fournier : Julie Bonaparte
- Georges Grey : Junot
- Jean Hervé : Talma
- Jeanne Fusier-Gir : Albertine, servant
- Germaine Laugier : Madame Clary
- Pierre Magnier : Monsieur Clary
- Jean Périer : Talleyrand
- Noël Roquevert : Fouché
- Maurice Teynac : Marmont
- Jean Darcante : Duphot
- Jean Davy : Berthier
- Georges Spanelly : Davout
- Georges Tourreil : Cambronne
- Renaud Mary : le docteur Antommarchi
- Maurice Lagrenée : Duke of Richelieu
- Roger Vincent : Charles XIII of Sweden
- Gaston Mauger : Louis XVIII of France
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