Chronicle of the 19th-century French courtesan (Dolores Del Rio) and her ill-fated romance with King Louis XV (Reginald Owen). Richelieu: Osgood Perkins. Marie Antoinette: Anita Louise. Duchesse de Grammont: Verree Teasdale. Contesse de Berne: Helen Lowell. D'Aiguillon: Victor Jory. Excellent cast. Directed by William Dieterle.
Another film version of the life of Louis XV's famous mistress, this time played by Del Rio as a conniving street waif whose rise to power in the decadent court of the king is given soap opera treatment. Historically inaccurate and fairly pretentious.