The Glorious Lady

Name: The Glorious Lady
Genre: Drama
Released: 1919-10-19
Duration: 56 min
Rating: 6
Cast: Olive Thomas, Matt Moore, Evelyn Brent

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56m

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During the annual English celebration in which peasants and aristocrats mingle, the Duke of Loame, a contestant in the "point-to-point" horse race, is thrown from his horse and saved by Ivis... Read allDuring the annual English celebration in which peasants and aristocrats mingle, the Duke of Loame, a contestant in the "point-to-point" horse race, is thrown from his horse and saved by Ivis Benson, a tenant farmer's daughter, who was leading the race. Both are injured and they f... Read allDuring the annual English celebration in which peasants and aristocrats mingle, the Duke of Loame, a contestant in the "point-to-point" horse race, is thrown from his horse and saved by Ivis Benson, a tenant farmer's daughter, who was leading the race. Both are injured and they fall in love during the duke's visits while Ivis recovers, to the dismay of his mother and ... Read all

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Director
- George Irving
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- George M. Arthur(scenario)
- Edmund Goulding(story)
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Matt Moore and Olive Thomas in The Glorious Lady (1919)

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6/10

Couldn't They Adopt?

Because his family is as old as dirt, Matt Moore is the Duke of Loame. He's also the last of his line. Fortunately, he's fallen in love with the daughter of his estate's largest tenant, Olive Thomas. When it turns out she is barren, everyone is all atwitter, because she can't carry on the line. Evelyn Brent sees her chance to become a wealthy Duchess, and persuades Miss Thomas to seek a divorce, because Moore loves her too much to do so himself.

This sort of gossipy nonsense is the sort of thing that Selznick figured would carry Miss Thomas to stardom. She was a beautiful young woman, discovered by Ziegfeld for his Follies in 1915, had been appearing in the movies since 1915..... but it would be the next year that she would hit the heights with The Flapper. Then she would die of mercury poisoning in Paris while vacationing there with husband Jack Pickford, only 25. Gossip pursued her in death as well as life, and her ghost is said to haunt the New Amsterdam Theater, where Ziegfeld staged the Follies.

This movie is a well-constructed and produced trifle.

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