Glorious Betsy

“THE GLAMOUROUS ROMANCE OF THE BELLE OF BALTIMORE AND NAPOLEON'S BROTHER”

5.8(9)19281h 20m

DramaHistory

Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost.

Director

Alan Crosland

Cast

Dolores Costello

Betsy Patterson

Conrad Nagel

Jérôme Bonaparte

John Miljan

Preston

Marc McDermott

Col. Patterson

Pasquale Amato

Napoleon

Michael Vavitch

Capt. St. Pierre

Andrés de Segurola

Capt. Du Fresne

Paul Panzer

The Ship's Captain

Clarissa Selwynne

Aunt Mary

Betty Blythe

Princess Fredericka

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

3y ago

6.0

Dolores Costello (Betsy) is really quite mesmerising in this otherwise straightforward love story. She comes from wealthy Southern states plantation stock and takes a shine to her teacher. Needless to say, there is a bit of a gap in the social standing between them, until he - really Jerome Bonaparte (Conrad Nagel), brother to Napoleon - the First Consul of France, is invited to a ball hosted by h...