The Divine Lady is a 1929 film which tells the story of the love affair between Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton. It stars Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi , H.B. Warner, Ian Keith , Marie Dressler, Dorothy Cumming , William Conklin and Montagu Love .
The movie was adapted by Harry Carr , Forrest Halsey , Agnes Christine Johnston and Edwin Justus Mayer from the novel The Divine Lady: a Romance of Nelson and Emma Hamilton by E. Barrington . It was directed by Frank Lloyd.
It won the Academy Award for Directing and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Corinne Griffith) and Best Cinematography.
The movie was a silent film, but it had incidental music and a theme song.