Made in 1929, The Divine Lady is Vitaphone sound film with synchronized musical score and sound effects but no spoken dialogue.
The film is directed by Frank Lloyd, who received an Oscar Award in the second year of the kudos.
It is 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.
The melodramatic tale revolves around love affair between Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton, played by Corinne Griffith, who was Oscar nominated. Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh made a better, more famous version of this story in 1940, That Hamilton Woman.
Oscar Nominations: 3
Director: Frank Lloyd
Actress: Corinne Griffith
Cinematography: John Seitz
Oscar Awards:
Frank Lloyd won the Best Director Oscar for three films. He is one of the few Oscar director to win this kudo for a film that was not even nominated. He is better known for making The Mutiny on the Bounty, which won the 1935 Best Picture Oscar.
Famous for her beauty, Griffith did not make a successful transition to the sound era and her career faded. She retired from the screen in 1932. The Best Actress winner was Mary Pickford for Coquette.
