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The Divine Lady
(1929) United States of America
B&W : 12 reels / 9914 feet
Directed by Frank Lloyd
Cast: Corinne Griffith [Emma Hart, later Lady Emma Hamilton], Victor Varconi [Lord Horatio Nelson], H.B. Warner [Sir William Hamilton], Ian Keith [Charles Greville], Marie Dressler [Mrs. Hart], Montague Love [Captain Hardy], William Conklin [Mr. Romney], Dorothy Cumming [Queen Maria Carolina of Naples], Michael Vavitch [King Ferdinand of Naples], Evelyn Hall [Duchess of Devonshire], Helen Jerome Eddy [Lady Nelson]; Julia Swayne Gordon [Duchess of Argyle], Harold Goodwin [the coach driver], Walter James [a ship officer], Grant Withers [a ship officer], Ben Alexander [a young lieutenant], Bob Kortman (Robert Kortman) [the sailor upset over rotten food], Godfrey Craig [a powder monkey], Howard Hickenlooper [a powder monkey], Robert Parrish [a powder monkey], Mary Foy [the harridan neighbor], Louis Mercier [the Neapolitan rallying a mob], Leroy Boles [a neighborhood boy], Jackie Combs [a neighborhood boy], Vondell Darr [a neighborhood boy], Joan Bennett, Andy Devine, Joel McCrea, Gil Perkins, Charles Thurston
[?] First National Pictures, Incorporated? production; distributed by First National Pictures, Incorporated [A Frank Lloyd Production; A First National Vitaphone Picture]. / Produced by (associate producer) Walter Morosco. Continuity (scenario) by Agnes Christine Johnston, from the adaptation by Forrest Halsey of the novel The Divine Lady: A Romance of Nelson and Emma Hamilton by E. Barrington. Song, “Lady Divine” by Joseph Pasternak and Richard Kountz (music and lyrics). Art direction by Horace Jackson. Costume director (costume design) by Max Rée. Makeup by Fred C. Ryle. Photography (cinematography) by John B. Sietz (John F. Seitz). Associate photographers, Ralph Hammeras and Alvin Knechel. Film editor, Hugh Bennett. Titles (intertitles written) by Harry Carr and Edwin Justus Mayer. Presented by Richard A. Rowland. / © 28 March 1929 [LP285]. Released 31 March 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version at 8993 feet. Academy Award winner for Direction and Cinematography. / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.
Drama.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.1358.
Survival status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [35mm restoration positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 22 September 2024.
References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F2 n. F2.1358; Baer-Film p. 68; Shipman-Cinema p. 102; Vermilye-Twenties pp. 68, 233-235 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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