| The Laughing Lady | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Victor Schertzinger |
| Written by | Bartlett Cormack Arthur Richman |
| Based on | play, The Laughing Lady, by Alfred Sutro [1] |
| Produced by | Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation |
| Starring | Ruth Chatterton Clive Brook |
| Cinematography | George J. Folsey |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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. [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. The film "deal[s] with rape , divorce and hypocrisy in New York's high society". [3]
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. [4] [5] It was released in the US by Paramount in 1931.
Jeanne Eagels was to star in the film but died before production began.
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