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Director:

Frank Lloyd

Writers:

E. Barrington (novel)
Forrest Halsey (adaptation)
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Release Date:

1929 (Turkey) more

Genre:

Drama | History | Romance | War more

Plot:

The story of the romance between Emma, Lady Hamilton, and British war hero Admiral Horatio Nelson. full summary | add synopsis

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 2 nominations more

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Corinne Griffith's Disputed Oscar Nomination... more (7 total)


Cast

  (Complete credited cast)
Corinne Griffith ... Lady Emma Hart Hamilton
Victor Varconi ... Horatio Nelson
H.B. Warner ... Sir William Hamilton
Ian Keith ... Honorable Charles Greville
Marie Dressler ... Mrs. Hart
Montagu Love ... Captain Hardy
William Conklin ... George Romney
Dorothy Cumming ... Queen Maria Carolina of Naples
Michael Vavitch ... King Ferdinand of Naples
Evelyn Hall ... Duchess of Devonshire
Helen Jerome Eddy ... Lady Fanny Nelson
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Additional Details

Runtime:

99 min | 98 min (1994 UCLA/MOMA restoration)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Silent | Vitaphone (musical score and sound effects) (Western Electric Apparatus)

Certification:

USA:Not Rated | USA:TV-G (TV rating)


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

First National also released this film as a silent movie at 2,741.07 m. more

Movie Connections:

Remade as That Hamilton Woman (1941) more

Soundtrack:

Pearl o'Mine more


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6 out of 24 people found the following comment useful.
Corinne Griffith's Disputed Oscar Nomination..., 6 May 2005
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Author: drednm

and the very strange Oscar win for director, Frank Lloyd, are the only reasons this film is remembered at all. Long, dull, and obvious, The Divine Lady tells the story of Emma Hamilton and Admiral Nelson and his victory at Trafalgar. Because nominations were not announced in the early years of Oscars, it has allowed revisionists to suddenly, in the last few years, proclaim that Corinne Griffith was a nominee for best actress. This makes no sense as Griffith would have been the SIXTH nominee on the list. The academy might have played around in the first several years, but they never had SIX acting nominees. Mary Pickford won for Coquette. The other nominees have always been Bessie Love for The Broadway Melody, Betty Compson for The Barker, Ruth Chatterton for Madame X, and Jeanne Eagels for The Letter. Now out of nowhere, Griffith as been added as the stealth nominee. No way. If there WERE no official nominees announced, how did Griffith suddenly appear as a nominee 70 years after the fact? Nothing against Miss Griffith, whom I liked very much in The Garden of Allah, but she was NOT nominated for an Oscar, despite the trumpetings of TCM and the revisionism of the official Oscar web pages. Check any Oscar book printed before 1995. NO GRIFFITH! Oh and I would have voted for Bessie Love.

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