That Hamilton Woman

That Hamilton Woman

Infobox_Film
name = That Hamilton Woman (Lady Hamilton)


caption =
imdb_id = 0034272
writer = Walter Reisch
R.C. Sherriff
starring = Laurence Olivier
Vivien Leigh
director = Alexander Korda
producer = Alexander Korda
music = Miklos Rozsa
distributor = London Films (UK)
United Artists (US)
released = 1941
runtime = 128 min.
language = English
budget = |

"That Hamilton Woman" (1941) -- the original British title was simply "Lady Hamilton" -- is a historical film drama, produced and directed by Alexander Korda for Alexander Korda Films.

It tells the story of Emma Hamilton, who was mistress to Admiral Horatio Nelson, played respectively by Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. Heather Angel also appears in the film in the minor part of a street prostitute. The story begins with a decrepit, now-alcoholic Lady Hamilton thrown into debtor's prison in the slums of Calais, and shows her past life by means of a flashback, as she narrates the story to her skeptical fellow inmates.

Stars Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier were newlyweds at the time of filming and were considered a "dream couple". "That Hamilton Woman" is one of two films they made together.

In one scene Nelson (Laurence Olivier) says he has received orders from Admiral Hood. Ironically Olivier would go on to play Admiral Hood 43 years later in "The Bounty" (1984).

This was Sir Winston Churchill's favorite film.Fact|date=February 2008 Flora Fraser's "Emma, Lady Hamilton" claims that Churchill watched the movie over a hundred times. Fraser speculates that the fascination was Lady Hamilton's "originality."

Cast

* Vivien Leigh as Emma, Lady Hamilton
* Laurence Olivier as Admiral Horatio Nelson
* Alan Mowbray as Sir William Hamilton
* Gladys Cooper as Lady Frances Nelson
* Henry Wilcoxon as Captain Hardy
* Guy Kingford as Captain Troubridge
* Halliwell Hobbes as Rev Nelson
* Sara Allgood as Mrs Cadogon-Lyon
* Gilbert Emery as Lord Spencer
* Miles Mander as Lord Keith
* Heather Angel as a street girl

References

* "Time Out Film Guide" - published by Penguin Books - ISBN 0-14-029395-7
* "Chronicle of the Cinema" - published by DK Publishing - ISBN 0-7894-2249-2
* "Emma, Lady Hamilton" - published by Alfred A. Knopf - ISBN 0-394-53053-5

External links

* [http://www.vivien-leigh.com/photos/ Film Stills]


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