The Divine Lady
The Divine Lady is a 1929 film which tells the story of the love affair between Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton. It stars Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith, Marie Dressler, Dorothy Cumming, William Conklin and Montagu Love.The movie was 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. It was directed by Frank Lloyd.
It won the Academy Award for Directing and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Corinne Griffith) and Best Cinematography.
The movie was a silent film, but it had incidental music and a theme song.
