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Vincente Minnelli - Films of the later 1940s: Meet Me in St. Louis , The Clock , and The Pirate

Which actors played Emma Bovary and Rodolphe in Madame Bovary?

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Vincente Minnelli, seated at right, discusses a storyboard with actress Lana Turner, seated at left in costume, on the set of The Bad and the Beautiful. — Vincente Minnelli Vincente Minnelli (right) with Lana Turner (left) during the filming of The Bad and the Beautiful (1952).

In the 1949 film adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary, directed by Vincente Minnelli, the role of Emma Bovary was played by Jennifer Jones, and the role of her seducer, Rodolphe, was played by Louis Jourdan.1