The Naked Heart

Maria Chapdelaine

Directed by	Marc Allégret
Produced by	Nelson Scott Louis de Masure (uncredited)
Written by	Marc Allégret C.K. Jaeger J. McLaren-Ross Hugh Mills Roger Vadim
Starring	Michèle Morgan Kieron Moore Françoise Rosay
Music by	Guy Bernard
Cinematography	Armand Thirard
Edited by	Mireille Bessette Maurice Rootes
Production company	Everest Pictures Ltd. Régina
Distributed by	Filmsonor (France) Associated Artists Productions (USA)
Release dates	17 November 1950 (France) 8 March 1955 (USA)
Running time	100 min
Country	UK / France
Language	French
Box office	£99,247 (UK)^[1]

The Naked Heart (French title: Maria Chapdelaine) is a 1950 French language motion picture melodrama directed by Marc Allégret, based on the novel Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hémon. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Kieron Moore and Françoise Rosay.

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

Maria Chapdelaine at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database
Maria Chapdelaine at the Internet Movie Database
Maria Chapdelaine 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, Queen of the Galaxy (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)

Select Films of Marc Allégret

Travels in the Congo (1927) (documentary)
J'ai quelque chose à vous dire (1931) (short)
Fanny (1932)
The Chocolate Girl (1932)
Lake of Ladies (1934)
Zouzou (1934)
Adventure in Paris (1936)
Under Western Eyes (1936)
The Terrible Lovers (1936)
Woman of Malacca (1937)
Gribouille (1937)
Orage (1938)
Le Corsaire (1939) (unfinished)
The Beautiful Adventure (1942)
Twilight (1944)
Les Petites du quai aux fleurs (1944)
Lunegarde (1945)
Blanche Fury (1948)
The Naked Heart (1949)
Blackmailed (1951)
La demoiselle et son revenant (1952)
Julietta (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)

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