I Give My Heart

I Give My Heart (1935)

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.

Director: Marcel Varnel

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	Gitta Alpár as Madame du Barry
	Patrick Waddington as René
	Owen Nares as Louis XV
	Arthur Margetson as Count du Barry
	Margaret Bannerman as Marechale
	Hugh Miller as Choiseul
	Gibb McLaughlin as De Brissac
	Iris Ashley as Margot
	Hay Petrie as Cascal
	Cicely Paget-Bowman as
	Charles Castella as
	Jimmy Godden as
	Arthur Goullet as
	Philip Ridgeway as Boy

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