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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.
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
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
- 8.4K
- robert fells
Jérôme Bonaparte, assuming the name "Jerome Laverne," visits Baltimore, where he poses as a teacher and wins the love of Elizabeth "Betsy" Patterson, a society girl. After marrying Elizabeth, he reveals himself to be the brother of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
Synopsis by Hans J. Wollstein. The romance between Jerome Bonaparte and Baltimore debutante Elizabeth Patterson was given the full treatment by Warner Bros., who starred their leading purveyors of cinematic passion, Conrad Nagel and Dolores Costello, both fresh from Tenderloin (1927).
Glorious Betsy. Napoleon Bonaparte (Pasquale Amato) interferes with his brother's (Conrad Nagel) marriage to an American (Dolores Costello).
- Drama
Glorious Betsy is a 1928 silent film with talking sequences. It is based on a play of the same name by Rida Johnson Young and starring Dolores Costello. It was produced by Warner Bros. and was nominated for (but did not win) an Academy Award for Best Writing, Adaptation in 1929.
