Glorious Betsy

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.

The film is a semihistorical narrative and depicts the reallife courtship, marriage, and forced breakup of Jrme 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. Jrme was subsequently forced to marry Catharina of Wrttemberg. They had one child, depicted in the film, Jrme Napoleon Bonaparte. In order to provide a happy ending, Jrme in the film leaves France to be with his wife. However, in historical fact he remained in Europe.

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