Madame Bovary (1949)

Isabelle Hupert, Chabrols frequent collaborator and muse, brings a detached and icy intensity to her portrayal of Emma, an ambitious farmers daughter suffocated by her own life. When Emma meets meek country doctor Charles Bovary (Jean-Frangois Balmer), she sees a ticket out of her meager existence. However, the lure of marriage and motherhood is short-lived, and soon Emma senses a new set of ever-encroaching snares and limits preventing her from fulfilling the fanciful destiny she constructs for herself out of her own desires and the romance novels that fuel them. When her outlets of novels and the odd ball at the local chbteau cease to satisfy Emma's ravenous hunger for passion and luxury, she takes matters into her own hands, embarking on a double life of domesticity and adultery. Director Claude Chabrol Star Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Frangois Balmer.

Director: Vincente Minnelli
Producer: Pandro S. Berman
Actor: Christopher [Alf] Kent
Actor: James Mason
Actor: Jennifer Jones
Actor: Louis Jourdan
Actor: Van Heflin
Actor: Andre Charisse
Actor: Angi O. Poulos
Actor: Anne Kunde
Actor: Bert LeBaron
Actor: Charles Bancroft
Actor: Charles de Ravenne
Actor: Constance Purdy
Actor: David Cavendish
Actor: Ed Agresti
Actor: Edith Evanson
Actor: Eduard Franz
Actor: Edward Keane
Actor: Ellen Corby
Actor: Esther Somers
Actor: Eula Morgan
Actor: Florence Auer
Actor: Frank Allenby
Actor: Fred Cordova
Actor: Frederic Tozere
Actor: Gene Lockhart
Actor: George Davis
Actor: George Zucco
Actor: Gladys Cooper
Actor: Gracille LaVinder
Actor: Helen St. Rayner
Actor: Henri Letondal
Actor: Henry Morgan
Actor: Jack Stoney
Actor: John Abbott
Actor: John Ardizoni
Actor: Karl Johnson
Actor: Larry Simms
Actor: Lon Poff
Actor: Manuel Paris
Actor: Mayo Newhall
Actor: Paul Bryar
Actor: Paul Cavanagh
Actor: Phil Schumacher
Actor: Richard Alexander
Actor: Sailor Vincent
Actor: Stuart Holmes
Actor: Teddy Infur
Actor: Victor Kilian