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Désirée (1954)
Directed by Henry Koster
Overview
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.
Rated NR | Length 110 minutes
Actors
Marlon Brando | Jean Simmons | Merle Oberon | Michael Rennie | Cameron Mitchell | Elizabeth Sellars | Charlotte Austin | Cathleen Nesbitt | Evelyn Varden | Isobel Elsom | John Hoyt | Alan Napier | Leon Alton | Louis Borell | Richard Deacon | Edith Evanson | Bess Flowers | Carolyn Jones | Nicolas Koster | Dorothy Neumann | Gene Roth | Mary Stewart | Sven Hugo Borg | Peter Bourne | Paul Bradley | George Brand | Brad Brown | George Calliga | Harry Carter | Dick Cherney | Larry Crane | Paul Cristo | Jack Deery | Burnell Dietsch | Florence Dublin | Richard Garrick | Jack George | Leonard George | Rudy Germane | Sam Gilman | Ricky Gonzales | James Gonzalez | A. Cameron Grant | Ted Hook | Kenner G. Kemp | Colin Kenny | Marina Koshetz | Ann Kunde | Kay E. Kuter | David Leonard | Judy Lester | Ted Mapes | Jack Mather | Lester Matthews | William H. O'Brien | Siw Paulsson | Joe Ploski | Jose Portugal | Fred Rapport | Violet Rensing | John Roy | Cosmo Sardo | Bert Stevens | Arthur Tovey | Richard Van Cleemput