THE GLAMOUROUS ROMANCE OF THE BELLE OF BALTIMORE AND NAPOLEON'S BROTHER
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.
- 5.8
- 1928
- Released
- 1h 20m
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 FrederickaReleased
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Reviews
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