That Hamilton Woman (1941)

I love this movie so much

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Absolutely Fantastic

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

So many reasons for see it ! from the status of testimony about the spirit of a period to the performances - Vivien Leigh is magnificent as Emma Hilton - to the naval battle and the imposible love story. it is not a film for define it. and not an artistic delight. or a masterpiece. after its end, you discover it as a very personal message. sure, romanticism is present. and it could appear as the basic ingredient. but the film gives more than a sensitive story. but a kind of ...spell. about succes and sacrifice and fall. using the perfect couple.

Very beautiful Vivien Leigh is perfectly cast as very beautiful Emma Hamilton, and her performance is one of her very best. Laurence Olivier is very good as Horatio Nelson, although I think that Lesley Howard might have been even better. The movie's chief failing is not showing the love and respect both Emma and Horatio felt for Sir William Hamilton, who was their constant companion while he lived. I suppose that wasn't possible in 1941 under the code. 9/10

Vivien Leigh (Lady Hamilton) is caught shoplifting and put in a cell where she recounts her life story to Heather Angel. It's a story that reveals her to be the ex-mistress of Laurence Olivier (Lord Nelson) and ex-wife of Alan Mowbray (Lord Hamilton) and it details her romance with the English naval hero up until his death at the 'Battle of Trafalgar'.The film is long but this doesn't seem to matter as the story captures the audience from the beginning. The cast are all good and, apart from the leads of Leigh and Olivier, mentions must go to Alan Mowbray who ends up as an hallucinating wreck and, in particular, Gladys Cooper (Lady Nelson) who holds her dignity and whose every scene is filled with tension.There are some powerful scenes, eg, Vivien Leigh receiving the news of her lover's death, and the film gives you a bit of everything - romance, humour, drama and good actors. It ends rather suddenly - it would have been interesting to know what happens next and what happens to the child - but the story doesn't take things that far. To her, Lady Hamilton's life ends at the battle of Trafalgar.

Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh star in "That Hamilton Woman," a 1941 film directed by Alexander Korda. It's the true story of Emma Hamilton (Leigh) and her long affair with Lord Nelson (Olivier). The story actually sticks pretty close to the true facts, though by necessity it leaves out a great deal. The story is told by Lady Hamilton herself in flashback.The real Emma was a prostitute who, as in the story, eventually marries her ex-fiancé's uncle and has the title of Lady Hamilton. She becomes a very famous artist's model - this is completely left out of the film. She falls in love with Lord Nelson, and the two embark on an affair that produces a child.Vivien Leigh makes a smashing Lady Hamilton - beautiful, desirable, determined. She photographs beautifully in black and white. Olivier is a stoic Nelson, a great naval hero who can't stay away from his duty, despite massive injuries.A very opulent production with two stars whose real-life story had some parallels to Hamilton and Nelson, "That Lady Hamilton" is a very absorbing film that Leigh fans in particular will not want to miss.