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The Song of Bernadette (German: Das Lied von Bernadette) is a 1941 novel that tells the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 reported eighteen visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France. The novel was written by Franz Werfel and translated into English by Lewis Lewisohn in 1942.[1] It was extremely popular, spending more than a year on the New York Times Best Seller list and 13 weeks in first place.
The novel was adapted into the 1943 film The Song of Bernadette starring Jennifer Jones.


Contents  [hide]
1 Origins
2 Plot
3 Major themes
4 References to history, geography and current science
5 References
6 External links

Origins[edit]
Franz Werfel was a German-speaking Jew born in Prague in 1890. He became well known as a playwright. In the 1930s in Vienna, he began writing popular satirical plays lampooning the Nazi regime until the Anschluss, when the Third Reich under Adolf Hitler annexed Austria in 1938. Werfel and his wife Alma (Gustav Mahler’s widow) fled to Paris until the Germans invaded France in 1940.
In his Personal Preface to The Song of Bernadette, Franz Werfel takes up the story:
“In the last days of June 1940, in flight after the collapse of France, the two of us, my wife and I, had hoped to elude our mortal enemies in time to cross the Spanish frontier to Portugal, but had to flee back to the interior of France on the very night German troops occupied the frontier town of Hendaye. The Pyreenean départements had turned into a phantasmagoria – a very camp of chaos.“This strange migration of people wandered about on the roads in their thousands obstructing towns and villages: Frenchmen, Belgians, Dutchmen, Poles, Czechs, Austrians, exiled Germans; and, mingled with these, soldiers of the defeated armies. There was barely food enough to still the extreme pangs of hunger. There was no shelter to be had. Anyone who had obtained possession of an upholstered chair for his night’s rest was an object of envy. In endless lines, stood the cars of the fugitives, piled high with household gear, with mattresses and beds. There was no petrol to be had.“A family settled in Pau told us that Lourdes was the one place where, if luck were kind, one might find a roof. Since Lourdes was but thirty kilometres distant, we were advised to make the attempt and knock on its gates. We followed this advice and found refuge at last in the little town of Lourdes in the foothills of the Pyrenees.” [2]
Hunted by the Gestapo, the Werfels experienced anxiety for their hosts as well as themselves. A number of families took turns in giving them shelter. These people told the Werfels the story of Bernadette. Werfel vowed that, if he and his wife escaped, he would put off all tasks and write Bernadette's story into a novel.
When the Werfels reached the safety of America, Werfel kept his word. He died in 1945, and the Cardinal Archbishop of Los Angeles, having obtained the family’s permission, gave him a Christian burial.[dubious – discuss] After the war, Franz Werfel was re-buried in Vienna.
Plot[edit]
The story of Bernadette Soubirous and Our Lady of Lourdes is told by Werfel with many embellishments, such as the chapter in which Bernadette is invited to board at the home of a rich woman who thinks Bernadette's visionary "lady" might be her deceased daughter. In side-stories and back story, the history of the town of Lourdes, the contemporary political situation in France, and the responses of believers and detractors are delineated. Werfel describes Bernadette as a religious peasant girl who would have preferred to continue on with an ordinary life, but takes the veil as a nun after she is told that because "Heaven chose her", she must choose Heaven. Bernadette's service as a sacristan, artist-embroiderer, and nurse in the convent are depicted, along with her spiritual growth. After her death, her body as well as her life are scrutinized for indications that she is a saint, and at last she is canonized.
The novel is laid out in five sections of ten chapters each, in a deliberate nod to the Catholic Rosary.
Unusual for a novel, the entire first part, which describes the events on the day that Bernadette first saw the Virgin Mary, is told in the present tense, as if it were happening at the moment. The rest of the novel is in the past tense.
Major themes[edit]
Werfel presents Bernadette as a young girl of artless simplicity and sincere piety who is regarded as stupid by those who do not know her well. He also depicts her as strong-willed and determined to carry out the wishes of the "Lady of Massabielle" whom she alone can see. Her fight, to have the Lady's existence and requests acknowledged and fulfilled, is played out against the larger canvas of French politics and the contemporary social climate. Explanatory digressions illustrate what Werfel perceives as an ongoing conflict between a human need to believe in the supernatural or in anomalous phenomena; a true religion, which should not address such "popular" manifestations; and the ideas of the Enlightenment and of atheism.
References to history, geography and current science[edit]
Apparently, Werfel obtained accounts of Bernadette from Lourdes families whose older members had known her. It is possible that a great deal of folklore and legend had been added to the plain facts by the time Werfel heard the tale.
Lourdes pilgrims often want to know more about Bernadette and do not realize that far from being a simple-minded shepherdess, she was a strong-willed young woman who stood by her story in the face of tough church and government inquiry. Werfel was able to work this aspect of her personality into his narration.
However, Werfel was not above fictionalization to fill in details or romanticize her story. He included a number of characters who did not exist,[who?] embellished others,[who?] and concocted a potential romance for Bernadette[citation needed] as well as a highly dramatic and fictionalized[how?] death scene. However, in the preface, Werfel states that readers will justifiably ask "What is true and what is invented?" Werfel answers that the most important events of the story are all true,[which?] and that it was easy[how?] to verify them because roughly only eighty years had passed between the events and the writing of the book. He declares: " The Song of Bernadette is a novel but not a fictive work".[3][clarification needed]
It seems to have been inspired in part by Émile Zola's Lourdes, a blistering denunciation of the industry that sprang up in Lourdes around the allegedly miraculous spring. Apparently Werfel believed the book might serve as a counterpoint to Zola's best-selling vitriol.[citation needed] One of his characters, Hyacinthe de Lafite, a member of the freethinkers' club that hangs around the town cafe, is a thinly disguised portrayal of Zola himself, re-imagined as a failed journalist/author who smugly casts Bernadette's experience in terms of the pagan history of the area.[citation needed]By the end of the book Lafite, the lady's "proudest foe", believing himself to be dying of cancer, is "lying on his knees" before the image of Bernadette's lady in the grotto.
Werfel goes into great detail about the cures at the Lourdes Spring, and has Dr. Dozous, the town physician, show Hyacinthe through the wards of the hospital, particularly a dormitory of women with a particularly virulent form of Lupus vulgaris in which the face rots and falls off. Werfel provides medical details and claims that some such women have been completely cured after washing in water from the spring, and reports that many more healings take place during the Blessing of the Eucharist ceremony which is held daily at the grotto. Most of these details seem to have been paraphrased from Zola's novel or from the research he did to write it.[citation needed]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Scheer, Monique (2012). "Catholic Piety in the Early Cold War Years;or, How the Virgin Mary Protected the West from Communism". In Vowinckel, Annette Vowinckel; Payk, Marcus M.; Lindenberger, Thomas. Cold War Cultures: Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies. New York: Berghahn. p. 147. ISBN 9780857452436. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
2.Jump up ^ Franz Werfel, "A Personal Preface" to The Song of Bernadette, The Viking Press, New York, 1942.
3.Jump up ^ The Song of Bernadette, Ignatius Press; Rep Tra edition (October 1, 2006), page xiv. ISBN 978-1586171711
External links[edit]
Bernadette of Lourdes Author John Martin's [who abridged Franz Werfel's classic The Song of Bernadette] website
  


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The Song of Bernadette (novel)

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The Song of Bernadette (German: Das Lied von Bernadette) is a 1941 novel that tells the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 reported eighteen visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France. The novel was written by Franz Werfel and translated into English by Lewis Lewisohn in 1942.[1] It was extremely popular, spending more than a year on the New York Times Best Seller list and 13 weeks in first place.
The novel was adapted into the 1943 film The Song of Bernadette starring Jennifer Jones.


Contents  [hide]
1 Origins
2 Plot
3 Major themes
4 References to history, geography and current science
5 References
6 External links

Origins[edit]
Franz Werfel was a German-speaking Jew born in Prague in 1890. He became well known as a playwright. In the 1930s in Vienna, he began writing popular satirical plays lampooning the Nazi regime until the Anschluss, when the Third Reich under Adolf Hitler annexed Austria in 1938. Werfel and his wife Alma (Gustav Mahler’s widow) fled to Paris until the Germans invaded France in 1940.
In his Personal Preface to The Song of Bernadette, Franz Werfel takes up the story:
“In the last days of June 1940, in flight after the collapse of France, the two of us, my wife and I, had hoped to elude our mortal enemies in time to cross the Spanish frontier to Portugal, but had to flee back to the interior of France on the very night German troops occupied the frontier town of Hendaye. The Pyreenean départements had turned into a phantasmagoria – a very camp of chaos.“This strange migration of people wandered about on the roads in their thousands obstructing towns and villages: Frenchmen, Belgians, Dutchmen, Poles, Czechs, Austrians, exiled Germans; and, mingled with these, soldiers of the defeated armies. There was barely food enough to still the extreme pangs of hunger. There was no shelter to be had. Anyone who had obtained possession of an upholstered chair for his night’s rest was an object of envy. In endless lines, stood the cars of the fugitives, piled high with household gear, with mattresses and beds. There was no petrol to be had.“A family settled in Pau told us that Lourdes was the one place where, if luck were kind, one might find a roof. Since Lourdes was but thirty kilometres distant, we were advised to make the attempt and knock on its gates. We followed this advice and found refuge at last in the little town of Lourdes in the foothills of the Pyrenees.” [2]
Hunted by the Gestapo, the Werfels experienced anxiety for their hosts as well as themselves. A number of families took turns in giving them shelter. These people told the Werfels the story of Bernadette. Werfel vowed that, if he and his wife escaped, he would put off all tasks and write Bernadette's story into a novel.
When the Werfels reached the safety of America, Werfel kept his word. He died in 1945, and the Cardinal Archbishop of Los Angeles, having obtained the family’s permission, gave him a Christian burial.[dubious – discuss] After the war, Franz Werfel was re-buried in Vienna.
Plot[edit]
The story of Bernadette Soubirous and Our Lady of Lourdes is told by Werfel with many embellishments, such as the chapter in which Bernadette is invited to board at the home of a rich woman who thinks Bernadette's visionary "lady" might be her deceased daughter. In side-stories and back story, the history of the town of Lourdes, the contemporary political situation in France, and the responses of believers and detractors are delineated. Werfel describes Bernadette as a religious peasant girl who would have preferred to continue on with an ordinary life, but takes the veil as a nun after she is told that because "Heaven chose her", she must choose Heaven. Bernadette's service as a sacristan, artist-embroiderer, and nurse in the convent are depicted, along with her spiritual growth. After her death, her body as well as her life are scrutinized for indications that she is a saint, and at last she is canonized.
The novel is laid out in five sections of ten chapters each, in a deliberate nod to the Catholic Rosary.
Unusual for a novel, the entire first part, which describes the events on the day that Bernadette first saw the Virgin Mary, is told in the present tense, as if it were happening at the moment. The rest of the novel is in the past tense.
Major themes[edit]
Werfel presents Bernadette as a young girl of artless simplicity and sincere piety who is regarded as stupid by those who do not know her well. He also depicts her as strong-willed and determined to carry out the wishes of the "Lady of Massabielle" whom she alone can see. Her fight, to have the Lady's existence and requests acknowledged and fulfilled, is played out against the larger canvas of French politics and the contemporary social climate. Explanatory digressions illustrate what Werfel perceives as an ongoing conflict between a human need to believe in the supernatural or in anomalous phenomena; a true religion, which should not address such "popular" manifestations; and the ideas of the Enlightenment and of atheism.
References to history, geography and current science[edit]
Apparently, Werfel obtained accounts of Bernadette from Lourdes families whose older members had known her. It is possible that a great deal of folklore and legend had been added to the plain facts by the time Werfel heard the tale.
Lourdes pilgrims often want to know more about Bernadette and do not realize that far from being a simple-minded shepherdess, she was a strong-willed young woman who stood by her story in the face of tough church and government inquiry. Werfel was able to work this aspect of her personality into his narration.
However, Werfel was not above fictionalization to fill in details or romanticize her story. He included a number of characters who did not exist,[who?] embellished others,[who?] and concocted a potential romance for Bernadette[citation needed] as well as a highly dramatic and fictionalized[how?] death scene. However, in the preface, Werfel states that readers will justifiably ask "What is true and what is invented?" Werfel answers that the most important events of the story are all true,[which?] and that it was easy[how?] to verify them because roughly only eighty years had passed between the events and the writing of the book. He declares: " The Song of Bernadette is a novel but not a fictive work".[3][clarification needed]
It seems to have been inspired in part by Émile Zola's Lourdes, a blistering denunciation of the industry that sprang up in Lourdes around the allegedly miraculous spring. Apparently Werfel believed the book might serve as a counterpoint to Zola's best-selling vitriol.[citation needed] One of his characters, Hyacinthe de Lafite, a member of the freethinkers' club that hangs around the town cafe, is a thinly disguised portrayal of Zola himself, re-imagined as a failed journalist/author who smugly casts Bernadette's experience in terms of the pagan history of the area.[citation needed]By the end of the book Lafite, the lady's "proudest foe", believing himself to be dying of cancer, is "lying on his knees" before the image of Bernadette's lady in the grotto.
Werfel goes into great detail about the cures at the Lourdes Spring, and has Dr. Dozous, the town physician, show Hyacinthe through the wards of the hospital, particularly a dormitory of women with a particularly virulent form of Lupus vulgaris in which the face rots and falls off. Werfel provides medical details and claims that some such women have been completely cured after washing in water from the spring, and reports that many more healings take place during the Blessing of the Eucharist ceremony which is held daily at the grotto. Most of these details seem to have been paraphrased from Zola's novel or from the research he did to write it.[citation needed]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Scheer, Monique (2012). "Catholic Piety in the Early Cold War Years;or, How the Virgin Mary Protected the West from Communism". In Vowinckel, Annette Vowinckel; Payk, Marcus M.; Lindenberger, Thomas. Cold War Cultures: Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies. New York: Berghahn. p. 147. ISBN 9780857452436. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
2.Jump up ^ Franz Werfel, "A Personal Preface" to The Song of Bernadette, The Viking Press, New York, 1942.
3.Jump up ^ The Song of Bernadette, Ignatius Press; Rep Tra edition (October 1, 2006), page xiv. ISBN 978-1586171711
External links[edit]
Bernadette of Lourdes Author John Martin's [who abridged Franz Werfel's classic The Song of Bernadette] website
  


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The Song of Bernadette
Song sheet.jpg
Poster art by Norman Rockwell

Directed by
Henry King
Produced by
William Perlberg
Written by
George Seaton
Based on
The Song of Bernadette
 by Franz Werfel
Starring
Jennifer Jones
William Eythe
Charles Bickford
Vincent Price
Music by
Alfred Newman
Cinematography
Arthur C. Miller
Edited by
Barbara McLean
Distributed by
Twentieth Century-Fox

Release dates

December 21, 1943


Running time
 156 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$1.6 million[1]
Box office
$5 million (US/ Canada rentals)[2]
The Song of Bernadette is a 1943 drama film that tells the story of Bernadette Soubirous (later, Saint Bernadette), who, from February to July 1858 in Lourdes, France, reported eighteen visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It was directed by Henry King.
The film was adapted by George Seaton from the 1941 novel The Song of Bernadette, written by Franz Werfel. The novel was extremely popular, spending more than a year on The New York Times Best Seller list and thirteen weeks heading the list. The story was also turned into a Broadway play, which opened at the Belasco Theatre in March 1943.[3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Historical accuracy
4 Music
5 Awards and honors 5.1 American Film Institute Recognition
6 Radio adaptation
7 See also
8 References
9 Further reading
10 External links

Plot[edit]
François Soubirous (Roman Bohnen), a former miller now unemployed, is forced to take odd jobs and live at the city jail with his wife (Anne Revere), his two sons, and his two daughters. One morning he goes to find work, and is told to take contaminated trash from the hospital and dump it in the cave at Massabielle.
At the Catholic school (run by the Sisters of Charity of Nevers) that she and her sisters attend, fourteen-year-old Bernadette Soubirous (Jennifer Jones) is shamed in front of the class by Sister Vauzous, the teacher (Gladys Cooper), for not having learned her catechism well. Her sister Marie (Ermadean Walters) explains that Bernadette was out sick with asthma. Abbé Dominique Peyramale (Charles Bickford) enters and awards the students holy cards, but is told by Sister Vauzous that Bernadette does not deserve one, because she has not studied, and that it would not be fair to the other students. Peyramale encourages Bernadette to study harder.
Later that afternoon, on an errand with her sister Marie and school friend Jeanne (Mary Anderson) to collect firewood outside the town of Lourdes, Bernadette is left behind when her companions warn her not to wade through the cold river by the Massabielle caves for fear of taking ill. About to cross anyway, Bernadette is distracted by a strange breeze and a change in the light. Investigating the cave, she finds a beautiful lady (Linda Darnell) standing in brilliant light, holding a pearl rosary. She tells her sister and friend, who promise not to tell anyone else. They do tell, however, and the story soon spreads all over town.
Many, including Bernadette's Aunt Bernarde (Blanche Yurka), are convinced of her sincerity and stand up for her against her disbelieving parents, but Bernadette faces civil and church authorities alone. Repeatedly questioned, she stands solidly behind her seemingly unbelievable story and continues to return to the cave as the lady has asked. She faces ridicule as the lady tells her to drink and wash at a spring that doesn't exist, but digs a hole in the ground and uses the wet sand and mud. The water begins to flow later and exhibits miraculous healing properties. The lady finally identifies herself as "the Immaculate Conception". Civil authorities try to have Bernadette declared insane, while Abbé Peyramale, the fatherly cleric who once doubted her and now becomes her staunchest ally, asks for a formal investigation to find out if Bernadette is a fraud, insane, or genuine.
The grotto is closed and the Bishop of Tarbes (Charles Waldron) declares that unless the Emperor (Jerome Cowan) orders the grotto to be opened, there will be no investigation by the church. He says this will be a test for Bernadette's "lady". Shortly thereafter, the Emperor's infant son falls ill and, under instructions from the Empress (Patricia Morison), the child's nanny obtains a bottle of the water. Arrested for violating the closure order, she appears in court, identifies herself as the Empress' employee, and pays the fines of the other persons who attempted to enter the grotto, so that they will not have to serve time in jail. The magistrate permits her to go and to take the bottle of water with her. The Emperor's son drinks the water and recovers. The Empress believes that his recovery is miraculous, but the Emperor is not sure. The Empress upbraids him for doubting God, and at her insistence, the Emperor gives the order to reopen the grotto. The Bishop of Tarbes then directs the commission to convene. The investigation takes many years, and Bernadette is questioned again and again, but the commission eventually determines that Bernadette experienced visions and was visited by the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God.
Bernadette prefers to go on with an ordinary life, work, and possible marriage, but Peyramale does not think it is appropriate to turn Bernadette loose in the world, and persuades her to become a nun at the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity in Nevers, the Saint Gildard Convent. She is subjected to normal although rigorous spiritual training and hard work, but also emotional abuse from a cold and sinister Sister Vauzous, her former teacher at school, who is now mistress of novices at the convent. Sister Vauzous is skeptically jealous of all the attention Bernadette has been receiving as a result of the visions. She reveals this to Bernadette, saying she is angry that God would choose Bernadette instead of her when she has spent her life in suffering in service of God. She says Bernadette has not suffered enough and wants a "sign" proving Bernadette really was chosen by Heaven.
Bernadette is diagnosed with tuberculosis of the bone, which causes intense pain, yet she has never complained or so much as mentioned it. The jealous Sister Vauzous, realizing her error and Bernadette's saintliness, begs for forgiveness in the chapel, and vows to serve Bernadette for the rest of her life. Knowing she is dying, Bernadette sends for Abbé Peyramale (who in reality died a few years before Bernadette) and tells him of her feelings of unworthiness and her concern that she will never see the lady again. But the lady appears in the room, smiling and holding out her arms. Only Bernadette can see her, however, and with a cry of "I love you! I love you! Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for me", she reaches out to the apparition, and falls back dead. Peyramale utters the final words of the film, "You are now in Heaven and on earth. Your life begins, O Bernadette".
Cast[edit]
Jennifer Jones as Bernadette Soubirous
Charles Bickford as Abbé Dominique Peyramale
Gladys Cooper as Marie Therese Vauzou, Mistress of Novices for Bernadette
Anne Revere as Louise Casterot Soubirous, Bernadette's mother
Mary Anderson as Jeanne Abadie, Bernadette's friend
Patricia Morison as Empress Eugenie
Roman Bohnen as François Soubirous, Bernadette's father
Aubrey Mather as Mayor Lacade
Charles Dingle as Jacomet
Edith Barrett as Croisine Bouhouhorts
Sig Ruman as Louis Bouriette
Blanche Yurka as Bernarde Casterot, Bernadette's aunt
Ermadean Walters as Marie Soubirous, Bernadette's sister
Linda Darnell (uncredited) as the Immaculate Conception
Historical accuracy[edit]
The plot follows the novel by Franz Werfel, which is not a documentary but a historical novel blending fact and fiction. Bernadette's real-life friend Antoine Nicolau is portrayed as being deeply in love with her, and vowing to remain unmarried when Bernadette enters the convent. No such relationship is documented as existing between them. The government authorities, in particular Imperial Prosecutor Vital Dutour (played by Vincent Price) are portrayed as being much more anti-religion than they actually were,[4] and in fact Dutour was himself a devout Catholic who simply thought Bernadette was hallucinating. Other portrayals come closer to historical accuracy, particularly Anne Revere and Roman Bohnen as Bernadette's overworked parents, Charles Bickford as Father Peyramale, and Blanche Yurka as formidable Aunt Bernarde.
The film ends with the death of Bernadette, and does not mention the exhumation of her body or her canonization, as the novel does.
The film combines the characters of Vital Dutour and the man of letters Hyacinthe de La Fite, who appears in the novel and believes he has cancer of the larynx. La Fite does not appear at all in the movie. In the film it is Dutour who is dying of cancer of the larynx at the end, and who goes to the Lourdes shrine, kneels at the gates to the grotto and says, "Pray for me, Bernadette."
Music[edit]
Igor Stravinsky was initially informally approached for the writing of the film score. On 15 February 1943 he started writing music for the "Apparition of the Virgin" scene. In the event, no contract was ever signed with Stravinsky, and the project went to Alfred Newman, who won an Oscar. The music Stravinsky had written for the film made its way into the second movement of his Symphony in Three Movements.[5]
Awards and honors[edit]
The film was a great success both critically and financially. The Song of Bernadette won four Oscars in the 1943 Academy Awards:[6]
Best Actress in a Leading Role - Jennifer Jones
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White - James Basevi, William S. Darling, and Thomas Little
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
In addition, the film was nominated for a further eight categories:[7]
Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Charles Bickford
Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Gladys Cooper
Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Anne Revere
Best Director
Best Film Editing
Best Picture
Best Sound, Recording - E. H. Hansen
Best Writing, Screenplay
In the first Golden Globe Awards in 1944, the film won three awards:
Best Director – Motion Picture
Best Motion Picture – Drama
Best Motion Picture Actress - Jennifer Jones
American Film Institute Recognition[edit]
AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers – Nominated
AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores – Nominated
Radio adaptation[edit]
The Song of Bernadette was presented on Hollywood Star Time April 21, 1946. The 30-minute adaptation starred Vincent Price, Lee J. Cobb, Pedro DeCordoba, and Vanessa Brown.[8]
See also[edit]
Song of Bernadette (song)
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ A NEW SPIRITUAL RESURGENCE IN HOLLYWOOD: STUDIOS NOW LOOK FAVORABLY ON RELIGIOUS THEMES -- GOWNS BY ADRIAN FOR MISS CORIO By FRED STANLEYHOLLYWOOD.. New York Times (1923-Current file) [New York, N.Y] 07 Mar 1943: X3.
2.Jump up ^ "All-Time Top Grossers", Variety, 8 January 1964 p 69
3.Jump up ^ Song of Bernadette on Broadway accessed 8-14-2015
4.Jump up ^ Trochu, François, Saint Bernadette Soubirous Tan Books 1993. Trochu provides background information on Bernadette's "inquisitors", revealing that they were not atheists or even freethinkers.
5.Jump up ^ Stephen Walsh. Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America 1934-1971, p. 144. Retrieved 1 November 2014
6.Jump up ^ "NY Times: The Song of Bernadette". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
7.Jump up ^ "The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-14.
8.Jump up ^ "Those Were the Days". Nostalgia Digest 41 (2): 32–41. Spring 2015.
Further reading[edit]
John Bear, The #1 New York Times Best Seller: intriguing facts about the 484 books that have been #1 New York Times bestsellers since the first list, 50 years ago, Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1992.
External links[edit]
 Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Song of Bernadette (film).
The Song of Bernadette at the American Film Institute Catalog
The Song of Bernadette at the Internet Movie Database
The Song of Bernadette at the TCM Movie Database
The Song of Bernadette at AllMovie
The Song of Bernadette is available for free download at the Internet Archive


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Joy and the Dragon (1916) ·
 The Climber (1917) ·
 The Mate of the Sally Ann (1917) ·
 Beauty and the Rogue (1918) ·
 Powers That Prey (1918) ·
 23 1/2 Hours' Leave (1919) ·
 The Mistress of Shenstone (1921) ·
 Salvage (1921) ·
 Tol'able David (1921) ·
 The White Sister (1923) ·
 Romola (1924) ·
 Sackcloth and Scarlet (1925) ·
 Any Woman (1925) ·
 Stella Dallas (1925) ·
 The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) ·
 The Magic Flame (1927) ·
 Hell Harbor (1930) ·
 The Eyes of the World (1930) ·
 Merely Mary Ann (1931) ·
 State Fair (1933) ·
 Carolina (1934) ·
 Marie Galante (1934) ·
 One More Spring (1935) ·
 Ramona (1936) ·
 Lloyd's of London (1936) ·
 In Old Chicago (1937) ·
 Seventh Heaven (1937) ·
 Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) ·
 Jesse James (1939) ·
 Stanley and Livingstone (1939) ·
 Little Old New York (1940) ·
 Maryland (1940) ·
 Chad Hanna (1940) ·
 A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941) ·
 Remember the Day (1941) ·
 The Black Swan (1942) ·
 The Song of Bernadette (1943) ·
 Wilson (1944) ·
 A Bell for Adano (1945) ·
 Margie (1946) ·
 Captain from Castile (1947) ·
 Deep Waters (1948) ·
 Prince of Foxes (1948) ·
 Twelve O'Clock High (1949) ·
 The Gunfighter (1950) ·
 I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951) ·
 David and Bathsheba (1951) ·
 Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952) ·
 The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) ·
 King of the Khyber Rifles (1953) ·
 Untamed (1955) ·
 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) ·
 Carousel (1956) ·
 The Sun Also Rises (1957) ·
 The Bravados (1958) ·
 This Earth Is Mine (1959) ·
 Beloved Infidel (1959) ·
 Tender Is the Night (1962)
 



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The Song of Bernadette
Song sheet.jpg
Poster art by Norman Rockwell

Directed by
Henry King
Produced by
William Perlberg
Written by
George Seaton
Based on
The Song of Bernadette
 by Franz Werfel
Starring
Jennifer Jones
William Eythe
Charles Bickford
Vincent Price
Music by
Alfred Newman
Cinematography
Arthur C. Miller
Edited by
Barbara McLean
Distributed by
Twentieth Century-Fox

Release dates

December 21, 1943


Running time
 156 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$1.6 million[1]
Box office
$5 million (US/ Canada rentals)[2]
The Song of Bernadette is a 1943 drama film that tells the story of Bernadette Soubirous (later, Saint Bernadette), who, from February to July 1858 in Lourdes, France, reported eighteen visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It was directed by Henry King.
The film was adapted by George Seaton from the 1941 novel The Song of Bernadette, written by Franz Werfel. The novel was extremely popular, spending more than a year on The New York Times Best Seller list and thirteen weeks heading the list. The story was also turned into a Broadway play, which opened at the Belasco Theatre in March 1943.[3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Historical accuracy
4 Music
5 Awards and honors 5.1 American Film Institute Recognition
6 Radio adaptation
7 See also
8 References
9 Further reading
10 External links

Plot[edit]
François Soubirous (Roman Bohnen), a former miller now unemployed, is forced to take odd jobs and live at the city jail with his wife (Anne Revere), his two sons, and his two daughters. One morning he goes to find work, and is told to take contaminated trash from the hospital and dump it in the cave at Massabielle.
At the Catholic school (run by the Sisters of Charity of Nevers) that she and her sisters attend, fourteen-year-old Bernadette Soubirous (Jennifer Jones) is shamed in front of the class by Sister Vauzous, the teacher (Gladys Cooper), for not having learned her catechism well. Her sister Marie (Ermadean Walters) explains that Bernadette was out sick with asthma. Abbé Dominique Peyramale (Charles Bickford) enters and awards the students holy cards, but is told by Sister Vauzous that Bernadette does not deserve one, because she has not studied, and that it would not be fair to the other students. Peyramale encourages Bernadette to study harder.
Later that afternoon, on an errand with her sister Marie and school friend Jeanne (Mary Anderson) to collect firewood outside the town of Lourdes, Bernadette is left behind when her companions warn her not to wade through the cold river by the Massabielle caves for fear of taking ill. About to cross anyway, Bernadette is distracted by a strange breeze and a change in the light. Investigating the cave, she finds a beautiful lady (Linda Darnell) standing in brilliant light, holding a pearl rosary. She tells her sister and friend, who promise not to tell anyone else. They do tell, however, and the story soon spreads all over town.
Many, including Bernadette's Aunt Bernarde (Blanche Yurka), are convinced of her sincerity and stand up for her against her disbelieving parents, but Bernadette faces civil and church authorities alone. Repeatedly questioned, she stands solidly behind her seemingly unbelievable story and continues to return to the cave as the lady has asked. She faces ridicule as the lady tells her to drink and wash at a spring that doesn't exist, but digs a hole in the ground and uses the wet sand and mud. The water begins to flow later and exhibits miraculous healing properties. The lady finally identifies herself as "the Immaculate Conception". Civil authorities try to have Bernadette declared insane, while Abbé Peyramale, the fatherly cleric who once doubted her and now becomes her staunchest ally, asks for a formal investigation to find out if Bernadette is a fraud, insane, or genuine.
The grotto is closed and the Bishop of Tarbes (Charles Waldron) declares that unless the Emperor (Jerome Cowan) orders the grotto to be opened, there will be no investigation by the church. He says this will be a test for Bernadette's "lady". Shortly thereafter, the Emperor's infant son falls ill and, under instructions from the Empress (Patricia Morison), the child's nanny obtains a bottle of the water. Arrested for violating the closure order, she appears in court, identifies herself as the Empress' employee, and pays the fines of the other persons who attempted to enter the grotto, so that they will not have to serve time in jail. The magistrate permits her to go and to take the bottle of water with her. The Emperor's son drinks the water and recovers. The Empress believes that his recovery is miraculous, but the Emperor is not sure. The Empress upbraids him for doubting God, and at her insistence, the Emperor gives the order to reopen the grotto. The Bishop of Tarbes then directs the commission to convene. The investigation takes many years, and Bernadette is questioned again and again, but the commission eventually determines that Bernadette experienced visions and was visited by the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God.
Bernadette prefers to go on with an ordinary life, work, and possible marriage, but Peyramale does not think it is appropriate to turn Bernadette loose in the world, and persuades her to become a nun at the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity in Nevers, the Saint Gildard Convent. She is subjected to normal although rigorous spiritual training and hard work, but also emotional abuse from a cold and sinister Sister Vauzous, her former teacher at school, who is now mistress of novices at the convent. Sister Vauzous is skeptically jealous of all the attention Bernadette has been receiving as a result of the visions. She reveals this to Bernadette, saying she is angry that God would choose Bernadette instead of her when she has spent her life in suffering in service of God. She says Bernadette has not suffered enough and wants a "sign" proving Bernadette really was chosen by Heaven.
Bernadette is diagnosed with tuberculosis of the bone, which causes intense pain, yet she has never complained or so much as mentioned it. The jealous Sister Vauzous, realizing her error and Bernadette's saintliness, begs for forgiveness in the chapel, and vows to serve Bernadette for the rest of her life. Knowing she is dying, Bernadette sends for Abbé Peyramale (who in reality died a few years before Bernadette) and tells him of her feelings of unworthiness and her concern that she will never see the lady again. But the lady appears in the room, smiling and holding out her arms. Only Bernadette can see her, however, and with a cry of "I love you! I love you! Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for me", she reaches out to the apparition, and falls back dead. Peyramale utters the final words of the film, "You are now in Heaven and on earth. Your life begins, O Bernadette".
Cast[edit]
Jennifer Jones as Bernadette Soubirous
Charles Bickford as Abbé Dominique Peyramale
Gladys Cooper as Marie Therese Vauzou, Mistress of Novices for Bernadette
Anne Revere as Louise Casterot Soubirous, Bernadette's mother
Mary Anderson as Jeanne Abadie, Bernadette's friend
Patricia Morison as Empress Eugenie
Roman Bohnen as François Soubirous, Bernadette's father
Aubrey Mather as Mayor Lacade
Charles Dingle as Jacomet
Edith Barrett as Croisine Bouhouhorts
Sig Ruman as Louis Bouriette
Blanche Yurka as Bernarde Casterot, Bernadette's aunt
Ermadean Walters as Marie Soubirous, Bernadette's sister
Linda Darnell (uncredited) as the Immaculate Conception
Historical accuracy[edit]
The plot follows the novel by Franz Werfel, which is not a documentary but a historical novel blending fact and fiction. Bernadette's real-life friend Antoine Nicolau is portrayed as being deeply in love with her, and vowing to remain unmarried when Bernadette enters the convent. No such relationship is documented as existing between them. The government authorities, in particular Imperial Prosecutor Vital Dutour (played by Vincent Price) are portrayed as being much more anti-religion than they actually were,[4] and in fact Dutour was himself a devout Catholic who simply thought Bernadette was hallucinating. Other portrayals come closer to historical accuracy, particularly Anne Revere and Roman Bohnen as Bernadette's overworked parents, Charles Bickford as Father Peyramale, and Blanche Yurka as formidable Aunt Bernarde.
The film ends with the death of Bernadette, and does not mention the exhumation of her body or her canonization, as the novel does.
The film combines the characters of Vital Dutour and the man of letters Hyacinthe de La Fite, who appears in the novel and believes he has cancer of the larynx. La Fite does not appear at all in the movie. In the film it is Dutour who is dying of cancer of the larynx at the end, and who goes to the Lourdes shrine, kneels at the gates to the grotto and says, "Pray for me, Bernadette."
Music[edit]
Igor Stravinsky was initially informally approached for the writing of the film score. On 15 February 1943 he started writing music for the "Apparition of the Virgin" scene. In the event, no contract was ever signed with Stravinsky, and the project went to Alfred Newman, who won an Oscar. The music Stravinsky had written for the film made its way into the second movement of his Symphony in Three Movements.[5]
Awards and honors[edit]
The film was a great success both critically and financially. The Song of Bernadette won four Oscars in the 1943 Academy Awards:[6]
Best Actress in a Leading Role - Jennifer Jones
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White - James Basevi, William S. Darling, and Thomas Little
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
In addition, the film was nominated for a further eight categories:[7]
Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Charles Bickford
Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Gladys Cooper
Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Anne Revere
Best Director
Best Film Editing
Best Picture
Best Sound, Recording - E. H. Hansen
Best Writing, Screenplay
In the first Golden Globe Awards in 1944, the film won three awards:
Best Director – Motion Picture
Best Motion Picture – Drama
Best Motion Picture Actress - Jennifer Jones
American Film Institute Recognition[edit]
AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers – Nominated
AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores – Nominated
Radio adaptation[edit]
The Song of Bernadette was presented on Hollywood Star Time April 21, 1946. The 30-minute adaptation starred Vincent Price, Lee J. Cobb, Pedro DeCordoba, and Vanessa Brown.[8]
See also[edit]
Song of Bernadette (song)
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ A NEW SPIRITUAL RESURGENCE IN HOLLYWOOD: STUDIOS NOW LOOK FAVORABLY ON RELIGIOUS THEMES -- GOWNS BY ADRIAN FOR MISS CORIO By FRED STANLEYHOLLYWOOD.. New York Times (1923-Current file) [New York, N.Y] 07 Mar 1943: X3.
2.Jump up ^ "All-Time Top Grossers", Variety, 8 January 1964 p 69
3.Jump up ^ Song of Bernadette on Broadway accessed 8-14-2015
4.Jump up ^ Trochu, François, Saint Bernadette Soubirous Tan Books 1993. Trochu provides background information on Bernadette's "inquisitors", revealing that they were not atheists or even freethinkers.
5.Jump up ^ Stephen Walsh. Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America 1934-1971, p. 144. Retrieved 1 November 2014
6.Jump up ^ "NY Times: The Song of Bernadette". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
7.Jump up ^ "The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-14.
8.Jump up ^ "Those Were the Days". Nostalgia Digest 41 (2): 32–41. Spring 2015.
Further reading[edit]
John Bear, The #1 New York Times Best Seller: intriguing facts about the 484 books that have been #1 New York Times bestsellers since the first list, 50 years ago, Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1992.
External links[edit]
 Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Song of Bernadette (film).
The Song of Bernadette at the American Film Institute Catalog
The Song of Bernadette at the Internet Movie Database
The Song of Bernadette at the TCM Movie Database
The Song of Bernadette at AllMovie
The Song of Bernadette is available for free download at the Internet Archive


[hide]
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 t ·
 e
 
Films directed by Henry King


Joy and the Dragon (1916) ·
 The Climber (1917) ·
 The Mate of the Sally Ann (1917) ·
 Beauty and the Rogue (1918) ·
 Powers That Prey (1918) ·
 23 1/2 Hours' Leave (1919) ·
 The Mistress of Shenstone (1921) ·
 Salvage (1921) ·
 Tol'able David (1921) ·
 The White Sister (1923) ·
 Romola (1924) ·
 Sackcloth and Scarlet (1925) ·
 Any Woman (1925) ·
 Stella Dallas (1925) ·
 The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) ·
 The Magic Flame (1927) ·
 Hell Harbor (1930) ·
 The Eyes of the World (1930) ·
 Merely Mary Ann (1931) ·
 State Fair (1933) ·
 Carolina (1934) ·
 Marie Galante (1934) ·
 One More Spring (1935) ·
 Ramona (1936) ·
 Lloyd's of London (1936) ·
 In Old Chicago (1937) ·
 Seventh Heaven (1937) ·
 Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) ·
 Jesse James (1939) ·
 Stanley and Livingstone (1939) ·
 Little Old New York (1940) ·
 Maryland (1940) ·
 Chad Hanna (1940) ·
 A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941) ·
 Remember the Day (1941) ·
 The Black Swan (1942) ·
 The Song of Bernadette (1943) ·
 Wilson (1944) ·
 A Bell for Adano (1945) ·
 Margie (1946) ·
 Captain from Castile (1947) ·
 Deep Waters (1948) ·
 Prince of Foxes (1948) ·
 Twelve O'Clock High (1949) ·
 The Gunfighter (1950) ·
 I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951) ·
 David and Bathsheba (1951) ·
 Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952) ·
 The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) ·
 King of the Khyber Rifles (1953) ·
 Untamed (1955) ·
 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) ·
 Carousel (1956) ·
 The Sun Also Rises (1957) ·
 The Bravados (1958) ·
 This Earth Is Mine (1959) ·
 Beloved Infidel (1959) ·
 Tender Is the Night (1962)
 



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English-language films
20th Century Fox films
American films
Best Drama Picture Golden Globe winners
Black-and-white films
Films about Roman Catholicism
Films about Christianity
Portrayals of the Virgin Mary in film
Films about religion
Films directed by Henry King
Films featuring a Best Actress Academy Award winning performance
Films featuring a Best Drama Actress Golden Globe winning performance
Films set in the 1850s
Films set in the 1860s
Films set in the 1870s
Films whose art director won the Best Art Direction Academy Award
Films whose cinematographer won the Best Cinematography Academy Award
Films whose director won the Best Director Golden Globe
Films that won the Best Original Score Academy Award
Our Lady of Lourdes
Film scores by Alfred Newman





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