The Laughing Lady is a 1929 American sound film melodrama directed by Victor Schertzinger, starring Ruth Chatterton and produced and released by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation. 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. The film "deal[s] with rape , divorce and hypocrisy in New York's high society".
A 1924 Paramount silent film retitled A Society Scandal starred Gloria Swanson, now lost, was the first adaptation of the play.
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. 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 List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
References
External links
The Laughing Lady at tcm.com lantern slide (archived)