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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 Awards 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. Glorious Betsy at silentera.com database The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Glorious Betsy Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artist Collection at The Library of Congress by The American Film Institute, c.1978 The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Glorious Betsy(Wayback Machine) 1957 MOVIES FROM AAP Warner Bros Features & Cartoons SALES BOOK DIRECTED AT TV 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.
At the ball, Captain Bonaparte is announced—and Betsy realizes that her lover is Napoleon's brother. They marry immediately. Soon after, Jerome receives word that Napoleon wants him to return to France to wed Princess Fredericka of Wurtemberg (Betty Blythe).
Betsy and Jerome travel to France, but the Emperor refuses to recognize their marriage, denying Betsy the right to set foot on French soil. Jerome swears he will never enter France without his wife. Napoleon privately convinces Betsy that if she truly loves Jerome, she must give him up for the good of France. Betsy bids him goodbye “until tomorrow,” knowing it is forever.
In Baltimore, months later, a despairing Betsy gives birth to a son. Jerome, on his way to be wed to the princess, escapes his carriage and returns to America. He and Betsy are reunited, while their baby gurgles contentedly in his cradle.
| Marion Talley, Soprano, and Beniamino Gigli, Tenor, of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Singing "Verranno a te sull'aura" (Borne on the Sighing Breeze) from Act 1 of Lucia di Lammermoor | 1927 |
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