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Glorious Betsy. Glorious Betsy is a 1928 sound part-talkie drama film. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. The film is based on the 1908 play of ...
Oct 1, 2020 · This late silent film originally had talking sequences but the Vitaphone sound discs are now lost. The story was based on a famous play that was loosely base...
- 80 min
- 8.5K
- robert fells
Glorious Betsy: Directed by Alan Crosland. With Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, John Miljan, Marc McDermott. The real-life courtship, marriage, and forced breakup of Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, and his rich wife from the American south, Elizabeth Patterson.
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- Drama, History
- Alan Crosland
- 1928
GLORIOUS BETSY (1928) THE SCREEN. By MORDAUNT HALL. Betsy and Bonaparte. GLORIOUS BETSY, with Dolores Costello. Conrad Nagel, John Miljan, star Marc MacDermott, Betty Blythe, Pasquale Amato, Paul Panzer, Andrea de Sgurola and others, base on the play by Rita Johnson Young, directed by Alan Crosland; Vitaphone accompaniment and other special ...
- 81 min
Glorious Betsy is a 1928 sound part-talkie drama film. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. The film is based on the 1908 play of the same name by Rida Johnson Young, and it stars Dolores Costello. It was produced by Warner Bros. and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Adaptation in ...
The real-life courtship, marriage, and forced breakup of Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, and his rich wife from the American south, Elizabeth Patterson. Napoleon did not approve of the union and fixes him up with another girl. Jérôme Bonaparte, assuming the name "Jerome Laverne," visits Baltimore, where he poses as a teacher and wins ...
A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost. Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects.
