Désirée
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- Runtime
- 110 mins
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.
Cast
- Marlon Brando
- Jean Simmons
- Merle Oberon
- Michael Rennie
- Cameron Mitchell
- Elizabeth Sellars
- Charlotte Austin
- Cathleen Nesbitt
- Evelyn Varden
- Isobel Elsom
- John Hoyt
- Alan Napier
- Richard Deacon
- Edith Evanson
- Dorothy Neumann
- Carolyn Jones
- Bess Flowers
- Gene Roth
- Nicolas Koster
Director
- Henry Koster
