The Laughing Lady (1929 film)

The Laughing Lady
Directed by Victor Schertzinger
Produced by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation
Written by Bartlett Cormack
Arthur Richman
Based on play, The Laughing Lady, by Alfred Sutro[1]
Starring Ruth Chatterton
Clive Brook
Cinematography George J. Folsey
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
 December 28, 1929
Running time
 80 minutes
Country United States
Language English

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 an alternate sound version was produced by Paramount in Hungarian with a Hungarian director and cast.

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

References

  1. ↑ The Laughing Lady as produced on Broadway, Longacre Theatre, February-May 1923
  2. ↑ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:The Laughing Lady



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