The Song of Bernadette
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- Runtime
- 156 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Jennifer Jones
- William Eythe
- Charles Bickford
- Vincent Price
- Lee J. Cobb
- Gladys Cooper
- Anne Revere
- Roman Bohnen
- Mary Anderson
- Patricia Morison
- Aubrey Mather
- Charles Dingle
- Edith Barrett
- Sig Ruman
- Blanche Yurka
- Ermadean Walters
- Marcel Dalio
- Pedro de Cordoba
- Jerome Cowan
- Charles Waldron
- Linda Darnell
- Edward Fielding
- Fernanda Eliscu
- Edward Keane
- Mae Marsh
- Alan Napier
- Tala Birell
Director
- Henry King
Producers
- William Perlberg
Screenwriter
- George Seaton
