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Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Matthew_Capitano Bernadette is a waifish sickly soul, but producer Dave Selznick hired Jen Jones (by 'Special Appointment'... ooooo!!!), to play the part, not because she was any good (she's an untalented big-boned broad), but because Selzie wanted to do her -- and he did (he later married her).Hank King's strange direction confuses the audience and makes it even harder to believe in this fairy tale. Ermadean Walter who portrays Bernie's sister is hot, especially when she lifts up her dress so she can wade across the shallow river... BUTT CHEEKS! Is that a thong she's wearing? YEAHHHHHH! A really long flick. Have a jumbo size amount of popcorn so you don't miss any of the movie -- and a fifth of vodka so you can forget you ever saw it.

thejcowboy22 Watched this movie when I was 9 years old. The hook of this narrative for me personally was the classroom scene as Bernadette (Jennifer Jones) was being Hammered by her Teacher Sister Marie Therese played to perfection by Gladys Cooper. The Socratic method was the norm in Catholic School teachings and Bernadette was put on the spot to answer a question pertaining to the holy trinity and the poor girl was unprepared to answer. Fact is that Bernadette Soubirous was not a particularly good student coupled with her malady, Asthma. Enter Father Peyramale the Dean of the school played by rugged actor Charles Bickford who is associated with more violent physical roles. It's a strange anomaly for that famous character actor to play a man of peace. The Dean enters the classroom and has a gift for each of the recipients of their communion. Each student received a card from the holy Father but Sister Marie grabs Bernadette's card away from her as she tell the stunned Dean that Benadette is not worthy of this and it would be unfair for her to receive it in front of the other students who work hard in her class. I felt as though I was looking in a mirror of my own precarious circumstances. For I was attending a parochial school and not doing very well. Like Bernadette, I was struggling and constantly being badgered by my teachers. I also suffer from asthma and wondered where this story was headed. Maybe my fortunes would change. Of course you know the rest of the story as Bernadette in searching for fire wood stumbled across the Holy vision in the grotto next to a garbage dump. Jennifer Jones portrayal was so credible as she is so genuine,reserve in her answers against heavy criticism by the local officials. In addition to her plausibility as the simple teen with her openhearted way she carried her self without boasting or being overly pretentious about her heavenly vision. The main antagonist in this movie who hammers our simple teenager Bernadette to no end and tries to contradict her claims of the vision is the colorful prosecutor Vincent Price. This story is about belief, blind faith and being chosen despite deficiencies in a person. Throughout this movie Bernadette never complains and never expects anything for her own personal gain.Honorable mention for actress Anne Revere who plays Bernadette's Mother. I do want to visit the town of Lourdes someday and sample some spring water. Hey you never know?

mark.waltz True miracles come through spiritual enlightening, not earthly gifts. For Bernadette of Lourdes, she was already suffering-from asthma and in her own words, her own stupidity. Humiliated in her catechism class by imperious nun Gladys Cooper, she is the last person whom the zealots of the Catholic church would seem worthy of a visit by the "immaculate conception", in short the virgin Mary herself.Newcomer Jennifer Jones became an instant star in what wasn't necessarily her film debut, but her introduction to A films. And what a prestigious film it was, taking her to Oscar gold and in her own right, film immortality. But Bernadette, as delicate a flower as she seems, takes on her fate with strength and nobility, standing up to authority with respect but silencing them with divinely inspired words.Among those she finds herself up against are Gladys Cooper as a psychotically envious nun who believes in extreme suffering rather than spiritual joy; Charles Bickford as the initially disbelieving priest who eventually becomes one of her biggest champions, as well as Vincent Price and Charles Dingle as two political big wigs who fight to stop her besmirching of their community.On her side are Anne Revere and Roman Bohen as her hardworking parents, going from embarrassed to willing to risk everything to aid her, and Blanche Yurka as her extremely supportive aunt who dares any disbeliever to stand up to her when she escorts Jones to the grotto. They are all outstanding, but perhaps of the supporting cast, it is Cooper whom you will be mesmerized by as she becomes increasingly angry, then falls apart over realizing her sins.Non believers need not bother with this if their hearts and minds are closed to the possibilities. This is for those who live by faith, not by sight, and for those who are either desperate to find spiritual enlightenment or truly believe in the words of the son of the immaculate conception, the greatest gift to the world from God who has allowed the world to continue to live the way they see fit, yet with hope that through the lives of people like Bernadette of Lourdes.

zetes Jennifer Jones plays Bernadette Soubirous, the young girl who claimed to see the Virgin Mary at Lourdes. I must say right up front that I am not religious at all. Yet I have been moved by religious films, notably The Passion of Joan of Arc and The Gospel According to Matthew. Obviously both are foreign films. Frankly, I can't think of any Hollywood films offhand that I believe tackle religious matters very well. Pretentious of me? I don't know, maybe. I just think that Hollywood is way too in awe of it. I don't necessarily need the style to be skeptical, just muted. In The Song of Bernadette, there's no doubt whatsoever whether the girl is seeing the Virgin Mary or not (hilariously played by a pregnant Linda Darnell, which, as much as I like her as an actress, is undoubtedly blasphemy, even to an atheist like myself). Everyone who believes Bernadette is a wonderful person. Those who doubt her are mean, though some of them are forgiven by accepting her later on. The worst case of this is Vincent Price's character. You can see the horror movies in his future in this performance. The real-life person he plays, Vital Dutour, was a devout Catholic. As he's the big baddie in this movie, he's made into an atheist. Okay, I should just suck it up. The film itself isn't too bad. It's well directed by Henry King, and very well shot. I wasn't that impressed with Jennifer Jones. This was her first performance under that name, though she had made several films as Phyllis Isely previous to this. She won the Oscar. Ingrid Bergman should have won for Casablanca that year, but instead she was nominated for For Whom the Bell Tolls. She still should have won. Bergman turned a completely useless character, the only flaw in Hemmingway's otherwise masterful novel, into a flesh-and-blood human being. Jean Arthur in The More the Merrier also deserved it more (I haven't seen Joan Fontaine in The Constant Nymph or Greer Garson in Madame Curie). Jones is okay, but her little kid act gets monotonous fast.