Glorious Betsy

Apr 25, 1928

1h 20m

★ 5.8

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

History

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Cast

Betsy Patterson

Dolores Costello

Jérôme Bonaparte

Conrad Nagel

Preston

John Miljan

Col. Patterson

Marc McDermott

Napoleon

Pasquale Amato

Capt. St. Pierre

Michael Vavitch

Capt. Du Fresne

Andrés de Segurola

The Ship's Captain

Paul Panzer

Aunt Mary

Clarissa Selwynne

Princess Fredericka

Betty Blythe

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