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* NunsNRosaries: Yes, but also justified.
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* SilentConversation: At the final visitation, the viewer can see Bernadette clearly saying "Au revoir"[[note]]Farewell until we meet again[[/note]] but no sound is heard. The lady is not in that shot, but we see her light go out and Bernadette, pocketing her rosary, gets ready for the rest of her life.
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A 1943 classic about the life of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadette_Soubirous Saint Bernadette Soubirous]], a shepherdess and later nun who saw eighteen visions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, France when she was a teenager. Adapted from Franz Werfel's novel of the same name, the film is directed by Henry King and stars Creator/JenniferJones in an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward-winning turn as Bernadette. Also in the cast are Charles Bickford, William Eythe, Gladys Cooper, Creator/VincentPrice, Lee J. Cobb, Anne Revere, and Linda Darnell.

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A 1943 classic about the life of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadette_Soubirous Saint Bernadette Soubirous]], a shepherdess and later nun who saw eighteen visions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, France when she was a teenager. Adapted from Franz Werfel's novel of the same name, the film is directed by Henry King and stars Creator/JenniferJones in an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward-winning turn as Bernadette. Also in the cast are Charles Bickford, William Eythe, Gladys Cooper, Creator/VincentPrice, Lee J. Cobb, Creator/LeeJCobb, Anne Revere, and Linda Darnell.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: The primce’s governess when she’s arrested with a vial of water from the grotto after the grotto is ordered closed. She tells the police who she is and that the Empress requested the vial. It gets her released with the water.

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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: The primce’s prince’s governess when she’s arrested with a vial of water from the grotto after the grotto is ordered closed. She tells the police who she is and that the Empress requested the vial. It gets her released with the water.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: The primce’s governess when she’s arrested with a vial of water from the grotto after the grotto is ordered closed. She tells the police who she is and that the Empress requested the vial. It gets her released with the water.

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* DelicateAndSickly: [[spoiler:Bernadette, who has tuberculosis. Again, TruthInTelevision: Bernadette was always delicate thanks to her asthma, but she died of bone tuberculosis when in her thirties]].



* IllGirl: [[spoiler:Bernadette, who has tuberculosis. Again, TruthInTelevision: Bernadette was always delicate thanks to her asthma, but she died of bone tuberculosis when in her thirties]].



* WaifProphet: Bernadette is an IllGirl who has visions of "a beautiful lady." Bernie tells Antoine and his mother how the lady spoke about making her happy in "the next world" in the second apparition. It's clear the mother believes her but worries, "Things like that bode no good."

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* WaifProphet: Bernadette is an IllGirl a sickly girl who has visions of "a beautiful lady." Bernie tells Antoine and his mother how the lady spoke about making her happy in "the next world" in the second apparition. It's clear the mother believes her but worries, "Things like that bode no good."
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* FlatEarthAtheist: A zig-zagged trope version as the skepticism of many individuals to the miracles is disapproved of by the film but mostly treated sympathetically with the exception of Vital Dutour the Imperial prosecutor. The Emperor Louis Napoleon gets this accusation thrown at him, though, by his own wife no less.

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* FlatEarthAtheist: A zig-zagged trope version as the skepticism of many individuals to the miracles is disapproved of by the film but mostly treated sympathetically with the exception of Vital Dutour the Imperial prosecutor. The Emperor Louis Napoleon gets this accusation thrown at him, though, by his own wife no less.
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* ThePollyanna: Bernadette's resolve is tested a lot but she never loses her hopeful outlook.
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* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Vital Dutour is seen coughing right from the start. At the end it's revealed he has incurable cancer.

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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Quite a few points like inventing a romance between Bernadette and her childhood friend Antoine (he was already married in real life and they were JustFriends). There is also the merging of a number of individuals, inventing new ones, and changing around motivations. Generally, the real life story amounts to "a devout Catholic village is skeptical of the fact it's a site of a genuine miracle before enthusiastically embracing this fact."
* BreakTheHaughty: Prosecutor Dutour goes through one of these as he's the most respected man in the village but goes through a HumiliationConga as the evidence of miracles continues to pile up. He also gets throat cancer in what is implied to be divine retribution (this did not happen in real life). He ends up on his knees, praying to Saint Bernadette for forgiveness.

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* AmoralAttorney: Vital Dutour looks for support in old law books just to get a handle on Bernadette's case.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Quite a few points like inventing a romance between Bernadette and her childhood friend Antoine (he was already married in real life and they were JustFriends). There is also the merging of a number of individuals, inventing new ones, and changing around motivations. Generally, the real life real-life story amounts to "a devout Catholic village is skeptical of the fact it's a site of a genuine miracle before enthusiastically embracing this fact."
* BreakTheHaughty: Prosecutor Dutour goes through one of these as he's the most respected man in the village but goes through a HumiliationConga as the evidence of miracles continues to pile up. He also gets throat cancer in what is implied to be divine retribution (this did not happen in real life). He ends up on his knees, praying to Saint BigSleep: Bernadette for forgiveness.nods to the side when she dies peacefully.



* BreakTheHaughty: Prosecutor Dutour goes through one of these as he's the most respected man in the village but goes through a HumiliationConga as the evidence of miracles continues to pile up. He also gets throat cancer in what is implied to be divine retribution (this did not happen in real life). He [[PrayerIsALastResort ends up]] on his knees, praying to Saint Bernadette for forgiveness.
* CannotKeepASecret: Bernadette's sister tells on her to the mother as early as they get home from the wood collecting.
* CatchYourDeathOfCold: The movie transports the idea that cold is the reason for catching a cold.



* DyingCandle: Sister Vauzous blows out a candle after Bernadette dies.



* FlowersOfRomance: Antoine hands Bernadette a bunch of flowers before she heads off into the nunnery.
* GiveMeASign: Sister Vauzous begs Bernadette for a "sign" that would prove her worthy of the visitations, only for Bernadette to reveal that she has been living with the impossibly painful condition of tuberculosis of the bone in her legs for years.



* HandsOnApproach: The 1800s version of it with Antoine leading Bernadette safely across the RopeBridge by hand.



* TheHeroDies: Bernadette only gets to live 35 years before she dies of illness. Which isn't much longer than Jesus did.



* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Godmother Bernard who believes in Bernadette from the getgo. Later Father Peyramale as well.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: The chief of police is transferred to Alais.
* RefusalOfTheCall: It takes Father Peyramale some convincing to get Bernadette to give up her plan to become a housemaid and instead become a servant to God.



* WhatTheHellHero: Sister Vauzous gives Bernadette one at the tail end of the film about how she has never known real suffering. She begs Bernadette for a "sign" that would prove her worthy of the visitations, only for Bernadette to reveal that she has been living with the impossibly painful condition tuberculosis of the bone in her legs for years.
* WhamLine: "It may be that there is a sign for you after all," says Bernadette immediately prior to revealing her [[spoiler:crippling leg tumour and tuberculosis of the bone]].

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* WhatTheHellHero: Sister Vauzous gives Bernadette one at the tail end of the film about how she has never known real suffering. She begs Bernadette for a "sign" that would prove her worthy of the visitations, only for Bernadette to reveal that she has been living with the impossibly painful condition tuberculosis of the bone in her legs for years.
* WhamLine: "It may be that there is a sign for you after all," says Bernadette immediately prior to revealing her [[spoiler:crippling leg tumour tumor and tuberculosis of the bone]].bone]].
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* Bookends: When we first see Bernadette, she's being chastised by Sister Vauzous for not having memorized a catechism lesson due to illness. Father Peyramale is passing out holy cards. She gets one of the Shepherds at the Nativity (extra meaningful to her, as this was her former occupation), but Sr. Vauzous makes her give it back because she is "not deserving." At the very end, just as Bernie leaves for the convent, Fr. Peyramale gives her the card saying "if you need me, just send me this". She is deeply overcome. And some years later, while observing the prosperity that's come to Lourdes with all the pilgrims, Peyramale receives a message; the holy card. He departs for Nevers at once and is with Bernadette when she dies.[[note]]This didn't really happen. He died before she did.[[/note]]

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* Bookends: {{Bookends}}: When we first see Bernadette, she's being chastised by Sister Vauzous for not having memorized a catechism lesson due to illness. Father Peyramale is passing out holy cards. She gets one of the Shepherds at the Nativity (extra meaningful to her, as this was her former occupation), but Sr. Vauzous makes her give it back because she is "not deserving." At the very end, just as Bernie leaves for the convent, Fr. Peyramale gives her the card saying "if you need me, just send me this". She is deeply overcome. And some years later, while observing the prosperity that's come to Lourdes with all the pilgrims, Peyramale receives a message; the holy card. He departs for Nevers at once and is with Bernadette when she dies.[[note]]This didn't really happen. He died before she did.[[/note]]

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