''Jenny Lind'' is a 1932 American

Pre-Code Pre-Code Hollywood was the brief era in the American film industry between the widespread adoption of sound in film in 1929LaSalle (2002), p. 1. and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines, popularly known ...

musical film directed by

Arthur Robison Arthur Robison (June 25, 1883 – October 20, 1935) was a German film director and screenwriter of the silent era. He directed 20 films between 1916 and 1935. Selected filmography * '' A Night of Horror'' (1916) * '' What Belongs to Darkne ...

and starring

Grace Moore Mary Willie Grace Moore (December 5, 1898January 26, 1947) was an American operatic soprano and actress in musical theatre and film.Obituary ''Variety'', January 29, 1947, page 48. She was nicknamed the "Tennessee Nightingale." Her films helped ...

, André Luguet and

André Berley André Berley (13 January 1890 – 26 November 1936) was a French actor. Berley was born André Edmond Obrecht in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Selected filmography * ''The Passion of Joan of Arc'' (1928) * '' Olimpia'' (1930) * '' The ...

.Gevinson p. 1372 It is a French-language remake of the 1930 film ''

A Lady's Morals ''A Lady's Morals'' is a 1930 American pre-Code film offering a highly fictionalized account of opera singer Jenny Lind. The movie features Grace Moore as Lind, Reginald Denny as a lover, and Wallace Beery as P. T. Barnum. The film contains so ...

'', which also starred Moore but had a largely different cast and crew. Alternative language versions were common during the early years of

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until

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became more widespread. The film portrays the career of the nineteenth century Swedish

opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libr ...

singer Jenny Lind.

Cast

as Jenny Lind * André Luguet as Paul Brandt *

as P.T. Barnum * Françoise Rosay as Rosatti * Mona Goya as Selma * Georges Mauloy as Garcia *

Paul Porcasi Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) * Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...

as Maretti * Adrienne D'Ambricourt as Adèle *

Giovanni Martino Giovanni Martino or Giovanni Martini, also known as John Martin (1852, Sala Consilina - 24 December 1922, New York City) was an Italian-American soldier and trumpeter. He served both in Italy with Giuseppe Garibaldi and in the United States under ...

as Zerga

References

Bibliography

* Gevinson, Alan. ''Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960''. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

* 1932 films 1932 musical films 1930s French-language films American musical films Films directed by Arthur Robison 1930s biographical films American biographical films Biographical films about singers Films set in the 19th century Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films American black-and-white films Cultural depictions of Jenny Lind Cultural depictions of P. T. Barnum Remakes of American films 1930s American films {{musical-film-stub