Madame Bovary (1949 film)
Madame Bovary is a 1949 American romantic drama, a film adaptation of the classic 1857 novel of the same name by Gustave Flaubert. It stars Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin, Gene Lockhart, Frank Allenby and Gladys Cooper.
Theatrical release poster
Madame Bovary, originally published as Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners, is a novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1857. The eponymous character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.
Title page of the original French edition, 1857
Illustration by Charles Léandre Madame Bovary, engraved by Eugène Decisy [fr]. (Illustration without text on page 322: Emma in male costume at the ball)