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A Lady's Morals

A LADY'S MORALS

CREDITS

1930, 86 minutes, BW.
Director, Sidney Franklin; Screenplay, Hans Kraly, Claudine West, John Meehan and Arthur Richmond; Story, Dorothy Farnham; Music Director, Herbert Stothart.

CAST

Jenny Lind, Grace Moore; Paul Brandt, Reginald Denny; P.T. Barnum, Wallace Beery; Josephine, Jobyna Howland; Broughm, Gilbert Emery; Olaf, Gus Shy; Innkeeper, George F. Marion; Maretti, Paul Porcasi; Zerga, Giovanni Martino.

SONGS

Is It Destiny?; The Student's Song; I Hear Your Voice by Clifford Grey and Oscar Straus; Oh Why by Arthur Freed, Herbert Stothart and Henry M. Woods; Lovely Hour by Carrie Jacobs Bond; Swedish Pastorale by Howard Johnson and Stothart; Casta Diva by Bellini.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

"A highly romantic and greatly fictionalized account of the life of Jenny Lind ('the Swedish nightingale'). . .screenwriters. . .partnered the Swedish soprano with a cocky young composer called Paul Brandt (Reginald Denny) who, in the course of the narrative, is hurt in a riot and goes blind."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

NOTES

". . .the film's raison d'etre was the flowing presence of Miss Moore. . .and the arias and songs she sang throughout."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"Originally called The Soul Kiss; neither title indicates what a big, heavy-spirited M-G-M musical tearjerker this is."
- Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights At The Movies

"A costume play that rises above traditional handicaps. The picture is full of brilliant touches and has some fine pictorial backgrounds."
- Variety

The screen debut of Metropolitan Opera star Grace Moore.

Wallace Beery, who portrays P.T. Barnum in this film, would go on to portray Barnum in a biography titled The Great Barnum in 1934.

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