Désirée (1954)

Academy Awards, USA 1955

Nominated Oscar	Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color Lyle R. Wheeler Leland Fuller Walter M. Scott Paul S. Fox
	Best Costume Design, Color Charles Le Maire René Hubert

Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Directed by Henry Koster
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)

Brando is a deadly serious Napoleon who falls in love with scatterbrained Jean Simmons. Their young relationship fails when he goes away to fight wars and marries Josephine for political reasons. Simmons ends up with another general, improbably becoming the queen of Sweden. However, she can't take the cold and argues with the servants, so goes back to France. Meanwhile, Napoleon, still in love with her, has become mad with his own power, but succumbs to her request to surrender his throne. Brando overdoes it and  Simmons has no credibility, wasting the film's sumptuous sets and widescreen cinematography.