A Lady's Morals
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A Lady's Morals
Plot
Metropolitan Opera diva Grace Moore made her film debut in MGM's A Lady's Morals. The film purports to be the biography of "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind, who was ballyhooed to stardom by 19th-century showman P.T. Barnum (Wallace Beery, who'd re-create the role in 1934's The Mighty Barnum). Most of the story, however, is given over to the fabricated romance between Lind (Moore) and young composer Paul Brandt (Reginald Denny), who gives her up when stricken with blindness. As if this wasn't trouble enough, Lind loses her voice at the height of her career; she regains her golden throat, but Paul is lost to her forever. Grace Moore sings seven songs during the film's amazingly brief (75-minute) running time, two of them operatic classics. The anemic box-office showing of A Lady's Morals and her follow-up vehicles briefly squelched Grace Moore's hopes for film stardom, but a few years later she enjoyed enormous success in a series of Columbia musicals. ~ Hal Erickson, RoviCast
- Grace Moore - Jenny Lind
- Reginald Denny - Paul Brandt
- Françoise Rosay
- Wallace Beery - P.T. Barnum
- André Luguet
- André Berley
- Gus Shy - Olaf
- Jobyna Howland - Josephine
Credit
Cedric Gibbons - Art Director, Sammy Lee - Choreography, Adrian - Costume Designer, Sidney Franklin - Director, Margaret Booth - Editor, George Barnes - Cinematographer, Dorothy Farnum - Screen Story, Hanns Kraly - Screenwriter, John Meehan - Screenwriter, Arthur Richman - Screenwriter, Claudine West - Screenwriter| A Lady without Passport (1950 Film), A Lady to Love (1930 Film) | |
| A Lady's Profession (1933 Film), A Lake (2008 Film) |
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A Lady's Morals
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| Directed by | Sidney Franklin |
| Produced by | Irving Thalberg |
| Written by | Dorothy Farnum Hanns Kräly John Meehan Arthur Richman Claudine West |
| Starring | Grace Moore Reginald Denny Wallace Beery Gilbert Emery |
| Music by | Vincenzo Bellini |
| Cinematography | George Barnes |
| Editing by | Margaret Booth |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | November 8, 1930 |
| Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
A Lady's Morals is a 1930 film offering a highly fictionalized account of singer Jenny Lind. The movie features Grace Moore as Lind, Reginald Denny as a lover, and Wallace Beery as P. T. Barnum; Beery would play Barnum again four years later in The Mighty Barnum. The film contains some fine opera arias by Moore and was directed by Sidney Franklin.
According to the Internet Movie Database, the film Jenny Lind is an alternate French language version of A Lady's Morals; only two actors are listed in both versions (Grace Moore and Paul Porcasi), and different actors are listed for PT Barnum (Wallace Beery, André Berley), as well as different directors and other crew.[1]
Wallace Beery would play Barnum again in The Mighty Barnum four years later, with Virginia Bruce as Jenny Lind.
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Cast
- Grace Moore as Jenny Lind
- Reginald Denny as Paul Brandt
- Wallace Beery as P. T. Barnum
- Jobyna Howland as Josephine
- Gus Shy as Olaf
- Gilbert Emery as Broughm
- George F. Marion as Innkeeper
- Paul Porcasi as Innkeeper
Soundtrack
- "It Is Destiny"
- Lyrics by Clifford Grey
- Music by Oscar Straus
- Copyright 1930 by Harms Inc.
- Played by Reginald Denny on piano and sung by Grace Moore
- Reprised by Grace Moore singing and on piano
- "Rataplan"
- from "La fille du régiment"
- Music by Gaetano Donizetti
- Played at an opera house with Grace Moore singing as Marie
- "Student's Song"
- Music by Oscar Straus
- Lyrics by Clifford Grey
- Sung by students escorting Grace Moore home
- "Oh Why"
- Lyrics by Arthur Freed
- Music by Herbert Stothart and Harry M. Woods
- Copyright 1930 Harms Inc.
- Played by Grace Moore singing and on piano
- "Casta Diva"
- from "Norma"
- Music by Vincenzo Bellini
- Played at an opera house and sung by Grace Moore as Norma
- "Swedish Pastorale"
- Written by Howard Johnson and Herbert Stothart
- Sung by a group in Sweden
- "Lovely Hour"
- Words and Music by Carrie Jacobs Bond
- Copyright 1929 by Carrie Jacobs-Bond & Son
- Sung first by Grace Moore offscreen
- Reprised by her at P.T.Barnum's show in New York City
- "I Hear Your Voice"
- Music by Oscar Straus
- Lyrics by Clifford Grey
References
External links
- A Lady's Morals at the Internet Movie Database
- A Lady's Morals at AllRovi
- A Lady's Morals plot by Sanderson Beck (1999)
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