The Divine Lady

Director: Frank Lloyd Frank Lloyd

Overview

Frank Lloyd both produced and directed The Divine Lady, a Hollywood slant on the 19th century romance of Lord Horatio Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton. American film star Corinne Griffith, decked out in a blonde wig, is decorative but otherwise unconvincing as Lady Emma, while Hungarian-born Victor Varconi brings an inappropriate continental air to the veddy British Lord Nelson. Both stars found themselves playing second fiddle to Marie Dressler, mugging to her heart's content as Lady Emma's ambitious mother. The scandal surrounding the leading characters' illicit affair is secondary to the film's exciting reconstructions of Nelson's celebrated sea battles. Technically a silent, Divine Lady was released with a Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. Lost in the shuffle during the switch over to talkies in 1929, Divine Lady is forgotten today, totally eclipsed by the immensely successful 1941 film Lady Hamilton, starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/16/2009
UPC:	0883316165386
Original Release:	1929
Rating:	NR
Source:	Warner Archives
Presentation:	[Full Frame]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:40:00
Sales rank:	47,663

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Corinne Griffith	Lady Emma Hamilton
Victor Varconi	Capt. Horatio Nelson
H.B. Warner	Hamilton
Ian Keith	Greville
Marie Dressler	Mrs. Hart
Dorothy Cumming	Queen of Naples
William Conklin	George Romney
Montagu Love	Capt. Hardy
Julia Swayne Gordon	Duchess of Argyle
Michael Vavitch	King Ferdinand
Helen Eddy	Lady Nelson
Evelyn Hall	Duchess of Devonshire
Joan Bennett	Extra

Technical Credits

Forrest Halsey

Agnes Christine Johnston

Frank Lloyd	Director
Forrest Halsey	Screenwriter
Agnes Christine Johnston	Screenwriter
Richard A. Rowland	Producer