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The Divine Lady Overview:

The Divine Lady (1929) was a Drama - Historical Film directed by Frank Lloyd and produced by Frank Lloyd, Walter Morosco and Richard A. Rowland.

The film was based on the novel The Divine Lady: A Romance of Nelson and Emma Hamilton written by E. Barrington published in 1924.

Academy Awards 1928/29 --- Ceremony Number 2 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best ActressCorinne GriffithNominated
Best CinematographyJohn SeitzNominated
Best DirectorFrank LloydWon
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The Divine Lady BlogHub Articles:

THE DIVINE LADY

By Dan Day, Jr. on Mar 13, 2024 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

For the last few weeks Turner Classic Movies has been showing a marathon of Oscar-nominated features. Most of these are films that I have seen over and over again, but TCM did happen to sneak in an obscure title: the 1929 THE DIVINE LADY, about the famous love affair between Lady Emma Hamilton and B... Read full article

Review: The Divine Lady (1929) (1)

By Pretty Clever Film Gal on Dec 17, 2012 From Pretty Clever Films

The Divine Lady (1929) is an historical drama based on the true life love affair between Emma Hart and Admiral Horatio Nelson of the British Navy. The story opens with the arrival of slatternly Emma Hart, a cook’s daughter, at the home of Charles Greville. Emma becomes Greville’s kept wo... Read full article

Review: The Divine Lady (1929) (2)

By Pretty Clever Film Gal on Dec 17, 2012 From Pretty Clever Films

The Divine Lady (1929) is an historical drama based on the true life love affair between Emma Hart and Admiral Horatio Nelson of the British Navy. The story opens with the arrival of slatternly Emma Hart, a cook’s daughter, at the home of Charles Greville. Emma becomes Greville’s kept wo... Read full article

The Divine Lady – 1929

By Pretty Clever Film Gal on May 11, 2011 From Pretty Clever Films

Thanks to TCM’s “Silent Sunday,” every Monday afternoon is like Christmas morning. I fire up Tivo to find an alluring, brightly wrapped package and I tear into it. Sometimes, it’s an awesome toy, the very one I wanted and sometimes it’s a… sweater. Sweaters are ju... Read full article

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The Divine Lady Facts
This film was a joint preservation project of the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Museum of Modern Art Department of Film in cooperation with the Czechoslovak Film Archive. It was restored in conjunction with the project American Moviemakers: The Dawn of Sound.
In September 1928, Warner Bros. Pictures purchased a majority interest in First National Pictures and from that point on, all "First National" productions were actually made under Warner Bros. control, even though the two companies continued to retain separate identities until the mid-1930's, after which time "A Warner Bros.-First National Picture" was often used.
This was the very first sound film ever exhibited in Argentina. Max Glücksmann presented this film, which was distributed by MGM, with its original Vitaphone soundtrack in the Grand Splendid Movie Theater that also have Movietone equipment.
With this film, Frank Lloyd became one of only two directors to win the best director Oscar without their movie also being nominated for best picture. The only other film to win a directing Oscar without a best picture nomination was Two Arabian Knights, which won the only Oscar ever given for Comedy Direction to Lewis Milestone. Both Lloyd and Milestone won additional best director Oscars for directing best picture winners, Lloyd for Cavalcade and Milestone for All Quiet on the Western Front.
Vitaphone production reels #3031-3040
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