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The exquisite Marie Antoinette knew only vaguely that there was starvation in France, and misery and injustice, until a rabble, such as the one pictured above, burst into her palace. Norma Shearer plays the colorful life of the tragic queen
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| Marie Antoinette was fed up, trying to get married. Finally she laughed, plumped down on the scarlet cushion that lay on the altar steps, heaped her hoop skirts in a diamond-sparkle froth, and hugged her knees. The Dauphin (LouisSixteenth-to-be) slid out of his splendid ermine cape and lighted a cigarette.
"Save the candles!" shouted Director William S. Van Dyck.
A grip in overalls flitted through the Versailles palace chapel and, using a hooded contraption on a long rod, began to kill the gigantic candles behind the carved stone altar. Plop! went each orange flicker of light, and shadows deepened around the wedding party. Marie Antoinette leaned her chin on a hand that flamed with jewels. This was the fourth attempt she and Louis had made to get married that afternoon. Something went haywire on each occa
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Here is an absorbing report of one day spent on the set during filming of Marie Antoinette
By JESSIE HENDERSON
"These royal weddings take time," observed Marie Antoinette -Norma Shearer with a smile.
"Back in the 1770's they negotiated three years for it," admitted the Dauphin bridegroom resignedly. He's Robert Morley, the personable young actor whom M-G-M "discovered" not long ago in England.
Just now the delay in the nuptials was due to a camera angle. So the entire
French court relaxed right where it stood, flopping to the floor in a rustle of taffeta and a clink of swords. The Dauphin strolled outside for a bottle of lemon pop. The bride, pausing for a word with brother Douglas Shearer, chief sound technician for M-G-M, went billowing away to her portable dressing-room that was equipped with garage doors eight feet wide to accommodate those farflung hoops. She had every right to rest between takes. Norma weighs 110 pounds, and the silver and jewel studded wedding gown, plus train, weighed 108!
Bf While, for a very special shot, the camera crew tinkered over gadgets eighty feet above the sound stage, the French court broke into animated talk. They chattered casually of things that would have made the original French court's powdered hair stand on end in superstitious [Continued on page 40]
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