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The Laughing Lady (1929 film)
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Wikipedia article
'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.[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=10187 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:'The Laughing Lady'] 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.:fr:Kacag asszony It was released in the USA 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
References
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