Marie Antoinette is a 1938 American historical drama film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starred Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette. Based upon the 1932 biograph
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman is a 1932 biography of the French queen Marie Antoinette by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. Viking Press published the first English-language edition,