The Divine Lady (1928)
The Divine Lady (1928)
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Cast & Crew.
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
Capt. Hardy
William Conklin
Romney
Dorothy Cumming
Queen Maria Carolina
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Release DateDecember 26, 1928
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 39m
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The Divine Lady is a 1929 American pre-Code Vitaphone sound film with a synchronized musical score, sound effects, and some synchronized singing, but no spoken dialogue. It stars Corinne Griffith and tells the story of the love affair between Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton. It featured the theme song "Lady Divine", with lyrics by Richard Kountz and music by Nathaniel Shilkret, which became a popular hit in 1929 and was recorded by numerous artists, such as Shilkret, Frank Munn, Ben Selvin (as the Cavaliers), Smith Ballew, Adrian Schubert, Sam Lanin, and Bob Haring.
The film was adapted by Harry Carr, Forrest Halsey, Agnes Christine Johnston, and Edwin Justus Mayer from the novel The Divine Lady: A Romance of Nelson and Emma Hamilton by E. Barrington. It was directed by Frank Lloyd.
The film won the Academy Award for Best Director and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Corinne Griffith) and Best Cinematography. It is the only film to be awarded Best Director without a Best Picture nomination (one year earlier, Two Arabian Knights was awarded for Best Director of a Comedy Picture without being nominated for Best Picture).