Lady Oscar (film)

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Lady Oscar
Directed by	Jacques Demy
Produced by	Agnes Varda (executive producer) Mataichiro Yamamoto (producer)
Written by	Riyoko Ikeda (original story) Jacques Demy (screenplay)
Starring	Catriona MacColl Barry Stokes Christine Bohm Jonas Bergstrom
Music by	Michel Legrand
Cinematography	Jean Penzer
Editing by	Paul Davies
Release date(s)	March 3, 1979
Running time	124 min.
Country	Japan France
Language	English
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Lady Oscar is a 1979 film, based on the manga/anime The Rose of Versailles, created by Riyoko Ikeda. The film was written and directed Jacques Demy, with music composed by Michel Legrand. Lady Oscar is a Japanese - French co-production, and was filmed in France.

Contents 1 Plot synopsis 2 Cast 3 Trivia 4 References

[edit] Plot synopsis

Oscar Françoise de Jarjayes (Catriona MacColl) is a young woman whose father, a career military man, wanted a boy. Rather than surrender to his disappointment after she was born, her father took to dressing Oscar in boy's clothes and raising her as a man. While privately Oscar acknowledges her feminine side, she dresses as a man and gains an honored position as a guard to Marie Antoinette (Christina Bohm). In her youth, Oscar was in love with Andre (Barry Stokes), the son of the family's housekeeper. Years later, when the French Revolution begins, Oscar and Andre's paths cross for the first time in years. With the assault on the Bastille, Oscar and Andre find themselves fighting on opposite sides of the revolution.

[edit] Cast

• Catriona MacColl as Oscar François de Jarjayes
• Barry Stokes as André Grandier
• Jonas Bergström as Hans Axel von Fersen
• Christine Böhm as Marie Antoinette
• Terence Budd as Louis XVI
• Mark Kingston as General Jarjayes
• Georges Wilson as General Bouillé
• Martin Potter as Count de Gerodere
• Sue Lloyd as Duchess de Polignac
• Anouska Hempel as Jeanne Valois de la Motte
• Mike Marshall as Nicolas de la Motte
• Christopher Ellison as Robespierre
• Constance Chadman as Nanny
• Gregory Floy as Cardinal de Rohan
• Shelagh MacLead as Rosalie Lamorlière
• Michael Osborne as Bernard Chatelet
• Angela Thorne as Mademoiselle Bertin
• Paul Spurrier as Prince Louis Joseph
• Rose Mary Dunham as Marquise de Boulainvilliers

[edit] Trivia

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• The Japanese cosmetic company Shiseido, one of the co-producers of the film, later used Catriona MacColl as a spokesmodel for their 1979 line of lipstick.^[1]
• The film was not released in French theaters and remained unseen by the French public for several years.

[edit] References

v • d • e The Rose of Versailles Anime • Manga (Gaidens) • Episode list • Musicals • Eikou no Napoleon – Eroica • Characters  • Oscar François de Jarjayes Films: Lady Oscar • La Rose de Versailles