
I Give My Heart (1935)
Overview
The Loves of Madame du Barry was the American title of the 1935 British operetta I Give My Heart, based on the stage musical The Du Barry. German actress Gitta Alpar stars as Jeanne, the young 18th century Parisian milliner who sleeps her way to the uppermost rungs of French aristocracy, emerging at last as the glamorous Madame du Barry, mistress of Louis XV (Owen Nares). Refusing to gloss over du Barry's sexual peccadilloes (as previous films with Norma Talmadge and Dolores del Rio had done), the film presents the "heroine" as a whore, pure and simple-or, on second thought, not so pure and simple! Particularly troublesome for American censors was a scene in which du Barry is depicted as a resident of a bawdy house. Otherwise, The Loves of Madame du Barry is standard historical-drama fare, allowing dozens of top European actors to play "dress-up" for 90 minutes.
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Budget | $0.00 |
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Revenue | $0.00 |
Original Language | en |
Popularity | 0.001 |
Directed By
Marcel Varnel
Crew
Marcel Varnel
TOP CAST

Gitta Alpár
Madame du Barry

Patrick Waddington
René

Owen Nares
Louis XV

Arthur Margetson
Count du Barry

Margaret Bannerman
Marechale

Hugh Miller
Choiseul

Gibb McLaughlin
De Brissac

Iris Ashley
Margot

Hay Petrie
Cascal
Philip Ridgeway
Boy