I Give My Heart
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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Release
1935-10-24
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
Cicely Paget-Bowman
Charles Castella
Jimmy Godden
Arthur Goullet
Philip Ridgeway
Boy
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