The Laughing Lady is a 1929 sound film melodrama directed by Victor Schertzinger, starring Ruth Chatterton and produced and released by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation.[2] It is based on a 1922 British play, The Laughing Lady, by Alfred Sutro. The play was brought to New York in 1923 and put on Broadway starring Ethel Barrymore.
A 1924 Paramount silent film retitled A Society Scandal starred Gloria Swanson. It is now lost.
In 1930 a sound version, A Kacago Asszony, was produced by Paramount at its studio in Joinville, France, in Hungarian with a Hungarian director and cast.[3][circular reference] It was released in the US by Paramount in 1931.
Jeanne Eagels was to star in the film but died before production began.
Cast
- Ruth Chatterton - Marjorie Lee
- Clive Brook - Daniel Farr
- Dan Healy - Al Brown
- Nat Pendleton - James Dugan
- Raymond Walburn - Hector Lee
- Dorothy Hall - Flo
- Nedda Harrigan - Cynthia Bell (*as Hedda Harrigan)
- Lillian B. Tonge - Parker
- Marguerite St. John - Mrs. Playgate
- Hubert Druce - Hamilton Playgate
- Alice Hegeman - Mrs. Collop
- Joe King - City Editor
- Helen Hawley - Rose
See also
References
External links
- The Laughing Lady at IMDb
- The Laughing Lady at tcm.com
- lantern slide(archived)
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