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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1223

A Lady's Morals

193087 minUnited States France

Musical Biography

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: English
This copy runs: 86:43
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Sidney Franklin · Public domain

Synopsis

A dramatized Jenny Lind pursues a singing career while romance and theatrical promotion shape her public life. Operatic performances connect the fictionalized story to the talent that made the historical singer famous.

Cast

Grace Moore

Reginald Denny

Wallace Beery

Gilbert Emery

DirectorsSidney Franklin

Historical context

Grace Moore plays Lind, with Wallace Beery as P. T. Barnum. The film is a highly fictionalized star biography; contemporary criticism also challenged its mixture of historical material and invented romance.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 15, 2026.

Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

Reginald Denny — Photoplay Publishing Company (Life time: 1980) · Public domain
Wallace Beery — MGM studio photographer · Public domain
Gilbert Emery — DVD (Selznick Studio - United Artists); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936 film) · Public domain

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