The Naked Heart

1950 film

Marc Allégret
C.K. Jaeger
J. McLaren-Ross
Hugh Mills
Roger Vadim

Produced by

Nelson Scott
Louis de Masure (uncredited)

Starring

CinematographyArmand ThirardEdited by

Mireille Bessette
Maurice Rootes

Music byGuy Bernard

Production
companies

Everest Pictures Ltd.
Régina

Distributed by

Filmsonor (France)
British Lion Films (UK)

Release date

17 November 1950 (1950-11-17) (France)

Running time

100 minutesCountryUnited Kingdom / FranceLanguageEnglish/FrenchBox office£99,247 (UK)^[1]

The Naked Heart (French title: Maria Chapdelaine) is a 1950 British-French historical drama film directed by Marc Allégret, based on the novel Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hémon. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Kieron Moore and Françoise Rosay. It was released in separate English and French versions. A previous film version had been made in 1934.

It tells the story of a convent girl in a remote Northern Canadian village at the beginning of the 20th century.

Cast

Michèle Morgan as Maria Chapdelaine
Kieron Moore as Lorenzo Surprenant
Françoise Rosay as Laura Chapdelaine
Jack Watling as Robert Gagnon
Philippe Lemaire as François Paradis
Nancy Price as Theresa Suprenant
Francis de Wolff as Papa Suprenant
George Woodbridge as Samuel Chapdelaine
Brian Roper as Tit-Be Chapdelaine

References

^ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p495

External links

The Naked Heart at the British Film Institute^{[better source needed]}
The Naked Heart at IMDb
The Naked Heart at AllMovie

Films directed by Roger Vadim

And God Created Woman (1956)
No Sun in Venice (1957)
The Night Heaven Fell (1958)
Les liaisons dangereuses (1959)
Blood and Roses (1960)
Please, Not Now! (1961)
The Seven Deadly Sins (1962)
Love on a Pillow (1962)
Nutty, Naughty Chateau (1963)
Vice and Virtue (1963)
Circle of Love (1964)
The Game Is Over (1966)
Spirits of the Dead (1968)
Barbarella (1968)
Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)
Helle (1972)
Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973)
Charlotte (1974)
Game of Seduction (1976)
Bonheur, impair et passe (1977, TV movie)
Night Games (1980)
Hot Touch (1981)
Surprise Party (1983)
And God Created Woman (1988)
Safari (1991, TV movie)
Amour fou (1993, TV movie)
La Nouvelle tribu (1996, TV mini-series)
Mon père avait raison (1996, TV movie)
Un coup de baguette magique (1997, TV movie)

v t e Films directed by Marc Allégret
Travels in the Congo (1927) (documentary) J'ai quelque chose à vous dire (1931) (short) Black and White (1931) The Lovers of Midnight (1931) Fanny (1932) The Chocolate Girl (1932) Lake of Ladies (1934) Hotel Free Exchange (1934) Zouzou (1934) Beautiful Days (1935) Adventure in Paris (1936) Under Western Eyes (1936) The Terrible Lovers (1936) Woman of Malacca (1937) Another World (1937) Gribouille (1937) The Curtain Rises (1938) Orage (1938) Le Corsaire (1939) (unfinished) The Beautiful Adventure (1942) Two Timid Souls (1943) Twilight (1944) Les Petites du quai aux fleurs (1944) Lunegarde (1945) Pétrus (1946) Blanche Fury (1948) The Naked Heart (1950) Blackmailed (1951) La demoiselle et son revenant (1952) Julietta (1953) Loves of Three Queens (1953) School for Love (1955) Lady Chatterley's Lover (1955) Plucking the Daisy (1956) Love Is at Stake (1957) Be Beautiful But Shut Up (1958) Demons at Midnight (1961) The Man from Chicago (1963) The Ball of Count Orgel (1970)

Films directed by Marc Allégret