Hearts Divided (1936)
- Starring:
- Dick Powell, Marion Davies, (more)
- Director(s):
- Frank Borzage
Synopsis of Hearts Divided
A remake of 1928's Glorious Betsy (itself based on a stage play by Rida Johnson Young), Hearts Divided is based, believe it or not, on a true story. Marion Davies stars as 19th-century Baltimore belle Betsy Patterson, who falls in love with Jerome Bonaparte (Dick Powell) -- the younger brother of Napoleon Bonaparte (Claude Rains) himself. Though in real life Betsy and Jerome were married, for the purposes of the film they are parted before the nuptials, as part of Napoleon's long-range plans to place a Bonaparte at the head of every European nation. The Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart musical score emphasizes the artificiality of the whole endeavor, which despite its basis in fact is never believable for a single moment. The film's brevity (70 minutes) is its principal redeeming factor. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Hearts Divided
- Dick Powell - Capt. Jerome Bonaparte
- Charlie Ruggles - Napoleon
- Claude Rains - Napoleon
- Henry Stephenson - Charles Patterson
- John Larkin - Isham
- Etienne Girardot - Du Fresne
- Hobart Cavanaugh - Innkeeper
- Hattie McDaniel - Mammy
- Beulah Bondi - Madame Letizia
- The Hall Johnson Choir
- Marion Davies - Betsy Patterson
- Arthur Treacher - Sir Harry
- Edward Everett Horton - John
- Clara Blandick - Aunt Ellen
- Walter Kingsford - Pichon
- Halliwell Hobbes - Cambaceres
- George Irving - Thomas Jefferson
- Sam McDaniel - Servant
- Philip Hurlic - Pippin
- Director(s):
- Frank Borzage
- Writer(s):
- Rida Johnson Young, Laird Doyle, Casey Robinson
- Producer(s):
- Marion Davies, Harry Joe Brown
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