Winter Warmer - The Song of Bernadette

This winter warmer event is organised by St Robert's Club with the support of Harrogate Film Society. The film will be screened upstairs at St Robert's Club and the ticket price will include soup and a roll, together with cake and a hot drink. Tickets will be available via the film society website or at St Robert's Club and places are strictly limited to 25.

THE SONG OF BERNADETTE (1943)

156 min (Certificate U), Biography | Drama | Directed by Henry King | Starring Jennifer Jones as Bernadette.

Based on the novel by Franz Werfel, this multi award winning and still highly acclaimed film is a sympathetic account of the life of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, the daughter of a miller and a laundress, who claimed to have seen miraculous visions of a "young lady" near her home in Lourdes.

The film was nominated for 15 awards at the Oscars and Golden Globes and won 4 Academy Awards (Best Actress, Scoring, Cinematography & Art Direction ) and 3 Golden Globes (Best Picture, Actress & Director) in 1943.

The novel itself was extremely popular, spending more than a year on The New York Times Best Seller list and thirteen weeks heading the list. The story was also turned into a Broadway play, which opened at the Belasco Theatre in March 1946.