The Song of Bernadette

1943 PG-13 2h 36m

7.1 / 10 130

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In 1858 Lourdes, France, adolescent peasant Bernadette has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the Massabielle grotto - the townspeople assume this lady to be the Virgin Mary. Pompous government officials think the girl is insane, doing their best to suppress her and her followers, while the church wants nothing to do with the matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the town, ultimately transforming their lives.

Director Henry King

Writers

Franz Werfel George Seaton

Stars

Jennifer Jones William Eythe Charles Bickford

Prosecutor Vital Dutour

Lee J. Cobb

Dr. Dozous

Gladys Cooper

Sister Marie Therese Vauzous

Aunt Bernarde Casterot

Emperor Louis Napoleon III

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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

Drama

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Geronimo1967 26 Jun 2022

7/10

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...