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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 [Lady Emma Hamilton], Victor Varconi [Lord Nelson], H.B. Warner [Sir William Hamilton], Ian Keith [Greville], Marie Dressler [Mrs. Hart], William Conklin [Romney], Montague Love [Captain Hardy], Helen Jerome Eddy [Lady Nelson], Michael Vavitch [King of Naples], Dorothy Cumming [Queen of Naples], Evelyn Hall [Duchess of Devonshire], Julia Swayne Gordon, Mary Foy [the harridan neighbor]
Distributed by First National Pictures, Incorporated. / Associate producer, Walter Morosco. 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. Art direction by Horace Jackson. Costume design by Max Ree. Makeup by Fred C. Ryle. Cinematography by John F. Seitz. Film editor, Hugh Bennett. 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.
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Keywords: Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 18 November 2009.
References: 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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