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Glorious Betsy is a american film of genre Drama directed by Alan Crosland released in USA on 25 april 1928 with Dolores Costello

Glorious Betsy (1928)

Glorious Betsy
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Released in USA 25 april 1928
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Biography,    Historical
Rating58% 2.91212.91212.91212.91212.9121

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. The film was directed by Alan Crosland with cinematography by Hal Mohr. A mute print of this film, minus its Vitaphone tracks, survives in the Library of Congress, and while their copy of this film is missing some of the sound reels, it is unknown whether other copies of the sound have been preserved elsewhere.

Although the film was written by both Anthony Coldeway and Jack Jarmuth (the latter credited only for title cards), only Coldeway was nominated for the Academy Award.

Synopsis

The film is a semi-historical narrative and depicts the real-life courtship, marriage, and forced breakup of Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, and his wife from the American south, Elizabeth Patterson. Napoleon did not approve of the union (despite the fact that her family was one of the wealthiest in America) and the marriage was annulled. Jérôme was subsequently forced to marry Catharina of Württemberg. They had one child, depicted in the film, Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte. In order to provide a "happy ending", Jérôme in the film leaves France to be with his wife. However, in historical fact he remained in Europe.

Actors

Dolores Costello

(Betsy Patterson)Conrad Nagel

(Jérôme Bonaparte)John Miljan

(Preston)Marc McDermott

(Col. Patterson)Betty Blythe

(Princess Fredericka)
And :
Paul Panzer
Andres de Segurola
Michael Vavitch
Clarissa Selwynne
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