A Lady's Morals

A Lady's Morals is a 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Sidney Franklin. Its plot is a highly fictionalized account of opera singer Jenny Lind. The film features Grace Moore as Lind, Reginald Denny as a lover and Wallace Beery as P. T. Barnum. It contains operatic arias by Moore.
Wallace Beery would play Barnum again four years later in The Mighty Barnum, with Virginia Bruce as Jenny Lind.

Cast

Grace Moore as Jenny Lind
Reginald Denny as Paul Brandt
Wallace Beery as P. T. Barnum
Jobyna Howland as Josephine
Gus Shy as Olaf
Gilbert Emery as Broughm
George F. Marion as Innkeeper
Paul Porcasi as Innkeeper
Karl Dane as Swede in Audience

Soundtrack

"It Is Destiny": Lyrics by Clifford Grey, music by Oscar Straus, played by Reginald Denny on piano and sung by Grace Moore
"Rataplan" : Music by Gaetano Donizetti, sung by Moore
"Student's Song": Music by Oscar Straus, lyrics by Clifford Grey, sung by students escorting Jenny home
"Oh Why": Lyrics by Arthur Freed, music by Herbert Stothart and Harry M. Woods, played by Moore singing and on piano
"Casta Diva" :'' Music by Vincenzo Bellini, played at an opera house and sung by Moore
"Swedish Pastorale": Written by Howard Johnson and Herbert Stothart, sung by a group in Sweden
"Lovely Hour": Words and music by Carrie Jacobs-Bond, sung first by Moore off-screen and reprised at P. T. Barnum's show in New York
"I Hear Your Voice": Music by Oscar Straus, lyrics by Clifford Grey

Reception

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Mordaunt Hall called the film's title "meaningless and unsuitable" and wrote: "This story, one of half-truths and fiction,... is a conventional narrative and although Mr. Franklin delivers some imaginatively conceived sequences, there are others that are emphatically old fashioned in design.... It is too mindful of the old things in motion pictures."

Remake

The film was remade as the 1932 American French-language film titled Jenny Lind.