Glorious Betsy (1928)

Directed by

Alan Crosland, Gordon Hollingshead

Genre

drama film, silent film, biographical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 20m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman in 19th century France marries a man she loves but faces family disapproval. The story follows her romantic and personal struggles.

old-fashionedromantichistoricalmelodramaticquietstagedformalarchival

What happens

Glorious Betsy is a 1928 sound part-talkie drama film. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. The film is based on the 1908 play of the same name by Rida Johnson Young, and it stars Dolores Costello. It was produced by Warner Bros. and nominated for 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 sound film survives in the Library of Congress. The Vitaphone soundtrack discs, which are needed to restore the sound to the film, may exist in private hands but are not currently known to exist at any archive. Vitaphone track survives complete apart from the sound disc to reel 5 at UCLA Film & Television Archive. 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. The 1961 Warner Bros. film Splendor in the Grass features a scene in which Bud Stamper (Warren Beatty) and his friends watch the film in a theater. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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