Glorious Betsy

{{short description|1928 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Glorious Betsy

| image = Glorious Betsy 1928 poster.jpg

| caption = 1928 theatrical poster

| director = {{unbulleted list|Alan Crosland|Gordon Hollingshead}}

| producer =

| based_on = {{Based on|Glorious Betsy
1908 play|Rida Johnson Young}}

| screenplay = {{unbulleted list|Anthony Coldeway|Jack Jarmuth}}

| starring = {{unbulleted list|Dolores Costello|Conrad Nagel}}

| music =

| cinematography = Hal Mohr

| editing = Thomas Pratt

| studio = Warner Bros. Pictures

| distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1928|4|26}}

| runtime = 80 minutes (7-8 reels; 7,091 feet)

| country = United States

| budget = $198,000Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 6 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551

| gross = $965,000

| language = Sound (Part-Talkie)
English Intertitles

}}

Glorious Betsy is a 1928 sound part-talkie drama film. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. The film is based on the 1908 play of the same name by Rida Johnson Young, and it stars Dolores Costello. It was produced by Warner Bros. and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Adaptation in 1929. The film was directed by Alan Crosland with cinematography by Hal Mohr.{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1929 |title=The 1st Academy Awards (1929) Nominees and Winners |publisher=Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences |access-date=May 19, 2019}}

A mute print of this sound film survives in the Library of Congress. The Vitaphone soundtrack discs, which are needed to restore the sound to the film, may exist in private hands but are not currently known to exist at any archive.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/G/GloriousBetsy1928.html Glorious Betsy at silentera.com database]The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971[https://web.archive.org/web/20150918193349/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=9393 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:Glorious Betsy]Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artist Collection at The Library of Congress by The American Film Institute, c.1978[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.2592/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Glorious Betsy][https://archive.org/details/mediahistory&tab=collection?and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22Motion%20pictures%20--%20Catalogues%22 1957 MOVIES FROM AAP Warner Bros Features & Cartoons SALES BOOK DIRECTED AT TV] Vitaphone track survive incomplete at UCLA Film and Television Archive.

Although the film was written by both Anthony Coldeway and Jack Jarmuth (the latter credited only for title cards); only Coldeway was nominated for the Academy Award.

The 1961 Warner Bros. film Splendor in the Grass features a scene in which Bud Stamper (Warren Beatty) and his friends watch the film in a theater.