Hearts Divided (1936)
IT'S GAY! GRAND! GLORIOUS!
Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.
- Date of release
- 1936-06-20
- TMDB
- 5.5 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Music, History
- Director
- Frank Borzage
Casting
- Marion Davies — Betsy Patterson
- Dick Powell — Jerome Bonaparte
- Claude Rains — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Beulah Bondi — Mother of Napoleon and Jerome
- Henry Stephenson — Charles Patterson
- Clara Blandick — Aunt Ellen
- Charles Ruggles — Henry
- Edward Everett Horton — John
- Arthur Treacher — Sir Harry
- George Irving — Thomas Jefferson
- Walter Kingsford — Pichon
- Etienne Girardot — Du Fresne
Interesting facts
Hearts Divided is a 1936 American musical film about the real-life marriage between American Elizabeth 'Betsy' Patterson and Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon. It stars Marion Davies and Dick Powell as the couple. The film was a remake of the 1928 silent film Glorious Betsy, which was in turn based on the play Glorious Betsy by Rida Johnson Young. In real life, they were married in Baltimore, before sailing for Europe. Napoleon annulled the marriage, in spite of the existence of a child, and forced Jerome to marry Catharina of Württemberg, making him king of Westphalia. “Luckily, Hollywood treats the lovers Betsy and Jerome with a little more compassion.
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