What woman, best remembered as the mistress of Lord Nelson and as the muse of George Romney, was the movie That Hamilton Woman, based on?
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That Hamilton Woman That Hamilton Woman, (also known as Lady Hamilton and The Enchantress), is a 1941 black-and-white historical film drama, produced and directed by Alexander Korda for his British company during his exile in the United States. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, the film tells the story of the rise and fall of Emma Hamilton, dance-hall girl and courtesan, who married Sir William Hamilton, British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples. She later became mistress to Admiral Horatio Nelson.
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Emma, Lady Hamilton Emma, Lady Hamilton (26 April 1765; baptised 12 May 1765 – 15 January 1815), model and actress, is best remembered as the mistress of Lord Nelson and as the muse of George Romney.
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The President's Lady The President's Lady is a 1953 biographical film of the life of American president, Andrew Jackson, and his marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The film was made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Henry Levin, and produced by Sol C. Siegel with Levin as associate producer. The screenplay was by John Patrick, based on the 1951 novel by Irving Stone, the music score by Alfred Newman, and the cinematography by Leo Tover.
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Notorious Woman Notorious Woman was a 1974 BBC television serial based on the life of the French author George Sand. It starred Rosemary Harris in the title role. The seven episodes were written by Harry W. Junkin and directed by Waris Hussein.
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Margaret Kennedy Margaret Kennedy (23 April 1896 – 31 July 1967) was an English novelist and playwright. Her most successful work, as a novel and as a play, was "The Constant Nymph". She was a productive writer and several of her works were made into films.
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The Sporting Duchess The Sporting Duchess is a lost 1920 silent film drama directed by George Terwilliger and starring Alice Joyce. It is based on the 1895 play "The Sporting Duchess" by Henry Hamilton, Cecil Raleigh and Augustus Thomas. It was produced and released by the Vitagraph Company of America.
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Juliette Compton Juliette Compton (May 3, 1899 – March 19, 1989) was an American actress whose career began in the silent film era and concluded with "That Hamilton Woman" in 1941.
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Royal Castle Hotel The Royal Castle Hotel is a hotel in Dartmouth, Devon, England. Guests have included Queen Victoria, Sir Francis Drake, and Mary (who later became Mary II of England). The hotel was used as a location for the 1984 film, "Ordeal by Innocence", which was based on the 1958 Agatha Christie novel of the same name. Agatha Christie renamed the hotel the Royal George in 'The Regatta Mystery', a short story that first appeared in The Strand Magazine in 1936 and which currently forms part of the 1991 short story collection Problem at Pollensa Bay. It holds three stars in the AA rating system and looks across Dartmouth Harbour and the River Dart estuary.
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Westward Passage Westward Passage is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Robert Milton and starring Ann Harding, Laurence Olivier, ZaSu Pitts and Irving Pichel. A woman falls in love and marries, but soon discovers how unpleasant her new husband is. The film marked Olivier's second major role in the United States. It was not a commercial or critical success, and Olivier did not make another film in America until 1939 when he starred in "Wuthering Heights". The film recorded a loss of $250,000.
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Harriette Wilson Harriette Wilson (22 February 1786 – 10 March 1845) is the author of "The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson: Written by Herself" (1825). Wilson was a famed British Regency courtesan who became the mistress of William, Lord Craven at the age of 15. Later in her career, she went on to have business arrangements with Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and other significant politicians.
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Maria Foote Maria Stanhope, Countess of Harrington (1797?-1867), better known as Maria Foote, was an English actress and peeress in the nineteenth century.
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A Southern Maid (film) A Southern Maid is a 1933 British musical film directed by Harry Hughes and starring Bebe Daniels, Clifford Mollison and Hal Gordon. It is based on the operetta "A Southern Maid" by Harold Fraser-Simson. A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure. It was part of the cycle of operetta films popular in Britain in the mid-1930s.
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Female (1933 film) Female is a 1933 Warner Bros. pre-Code film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Ruth Chatterton and George Brent. It is based on the novel of the same name by Donald Henderson Clarke.
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Fanny Hill Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (popularly known as Fanny Hill, an anglicisation of the Latin "mons veneris", mound of Venus) is an erotic novel by English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748. Written while the author was in debtors' prison in London, it is considered "the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel". It is one of the most prosecuted and banned books in history.
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Marguerite Churchill Marguerite Churchill (December 26, 1910 – January 9, 2000) was an American film actress with a film career spanning from 1929 to 1952. She is best known today as John Wayne's first leading lady, in "The Big Trail" (1930).
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A Lost Lady (film) A Lost Lady is a 1934 American drama film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring by Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Morgan, and Ricardo Cortez. Based on the novel "A Lost Lady" by Willa Cather, with a screenplay by Gene Markey and Kathryn Scola, the film is about a woman whose fiancé is murdered by his mistress' husband two days before their wedding. Her uncle sends her away to the mountains, where she meets a man who looks after her and eventually proposes. She accepts even though she does not love him.
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Paulette Goddard Paulette Goddard (born Marion Levy; June 3, 1910 – April 23, 1990) was an American actress. A child fashion model and a performer in several Broadway productions as a Ziegfeld Girl, she became a major star of Paramount Pictures in the 1940s. Her most notable films were her first major role, as Charles Chaplin's leading lady in "Modern Times", and Chaplin's subsequent film "The Great Dictator". She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "So Proudly We Hail!" (1943). Her husbands included Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich Maria Remarque.
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Gone with the Wind (film) Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name. The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and directed by Victor Fleming. Set in the American South against the backdrop of the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, the film tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, from her romantic pursuit of Ashley Wilkes, who is married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, to her marriage to Rhett Butler. The leading roles are portrayed by Vivien Leigh (Scarlett), Clark Gable (Rhett), Leslie Howard (Ashley), and Olivia de Havilland (Melanie).
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Grace Moore Grace Moore (December 5, 1898January 26, 1947) was an American operatic soprano and actress in musical theatre and film. She was nicknamed the "Tennessee Nightingale." Her films helped to popularize opera by bringing it to a larger audience. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in "One Night of Love".
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Lady Gangster Lady Gangster is a 1942 Warner Bros. B picture film noir directed by Robert Florey, credited as "Florian Roberts". It is based on the play "Gangstress, or Women in Prison" by Dorothy Mackaye, who had spent ten months of a one-to-three-years sentence in San Quentin State Prison. "Lady Gangster" is a remake of the pre-Code film, "Ladies They Talk About" (1933). Jackie Gleason plays a supporting role.
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Laura Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough Frances Laura Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough ("née" Charteris; 10 August 1915 – 19 February 1990), was a British noblewoman and socialite. She was variously Viscountess Long, Countess of Dudley and became Duchess of Marlborough upon her fourth marriage, to John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough. She was the sister of novelist Hugo Charteris and Ann Charteris (who married Ian Fleming), as well as the granddaughter of Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss. Her third husband, Michael Temple Canfield, was the former husband of Lee Radziwill, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. During World War II, she served as an auxiliary nurse.
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The President's Mistress The President's Mistress is a 1978 American made-for-television drama mystery film produced by Kings Road Entertainment starring Beau Bridges, Karen Grassle, Susan Blanchard and Larry Hagman.