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A 1938 American Historical Drama directed by Creator/WSVanDyke that follows the life of UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette (Creator/NormaShearer) and her doomed reign of France.

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''Marie Antoinette'' is a
1938 American Historical Drama historical drama directed by Creator/WSVanDyke that follows the life of UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette (Creator/NormaShearer) and her doomed reign life as queen consort of France.
[[UsefulNotes/LetatCestMoi King]] of UsefulNotes/{{France}} UsefulNotes/LouisXVI.



It was released on July 8, 1938.

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It was released on July 8, 1938.

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Not to be confused with the [[Film/MarieAntoinette1989 1989 film]], the [[Film/MarieAntoinette2006 2006 film]] and the [[Series/MarieAntoinette2022 2022 series]].
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter:
** Marie Antoinette, Queen of France.
** Axel von Fersen the Younger, Marshal of the Realm of Sweden.
** King Louis XV, former king of France.
** King Louis XVI, King of France and Marie's husband.




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* CharacterTitle: '''Marie Antoinette''.

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* CharacterTitle: '''Marie ''Marie Antoinette''.
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A 1938 American Historical Drama directed by Creator/WSVanDyke that follows the life of UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette (Creator/NormaShearer) and her doomed reign of France.

The movie also stars Creator/TyronePower, Creator/JohnBarrymore, Creator/RobertMorley, Creator/AnitaLouise, Creator/JosephSchildkraut, Creator/GladysGeorge, Creator/HenryStephenson, Creator/CoraWitherspoon, Creator/BarnettParker, and Creator/ReginaldGardiner.

It was released on July 8, 1938.

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* CharacterTitle: '''Marie Antoinette''.
* TheFilmOfTheBook: Based on Stefan Zweig's ''Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman''.
* FluffyFashionFeathers: Marie wears a dress where the skirt almost entirely covered with feathers.
* PimpedOutDress: Marie has dresses with various amounts of ribbons, frills, feathers, fur, and jewelry.
* PrettyInMink: Marie has outfits with fur, since the real Marie of course did wear some fur-trimmed dresses.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter:
** Marie Antoinette, Queen of France.
** Axel von Fersen the Younger, Marshal of the Realm of Sweden.
** King Louis XV, former king of France.
** King Louis XVI, King of France and Marie's husband.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orleans, receives a big one. The real Orleans was a genuine believer in the principals of Creator/JeanJacquesRousseau and Montesquieu, who used his position to foster support for liberalism and democratic reform. He was initially supportive of UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution, but eventually turned against its excesses, saved several people from being executed, and was eventually guillotined himself. In the movie, however, Orleans is, in fact, the primary orchestrator of the entire Revolution, which he cooked up as part of an insidious plot to seize the throne, after failing to seduce Marie Antoinette. During the so-called "Affair of the Diamond Necklace", he becomes a full-blown DiabolicalMastermind, using forgery and impersonation to frame the Queen for fraud. Eventually, he maliciously casts the deciding vote in favor of executing Louis XVI, before being executed offscreen by the rabble (he did vote in favor of it, but was hardly the decider, though some people did take that as an attempt by him to get rid of the king and seize the crown for himself).

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