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Once a Lady is a american film of genre Drama directed by Guthrie McClintic released in USA on 7 november 1931 with Ruth Chatterton

Once a Lady (1931)

Once a Lady
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Released in USA 7 november 1931
Length 1h20
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating59% 2.957752.957752.957752.957752.95775

Once a Lady is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Guthrie McClintic and starring Ruth Chatterton, Ivor Novello and Jill Esmond. The film, produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures, is a remake of the Pola Negri silent film Three Sinners (1928). The film was the final attempt by British matinée idol Novello to establish himself in Hollywood.

Synopsis

A young Russian woman (Chatterton) marries a wealthy Englishman (Novello), and has a daughter with him. After she has an affair with one of his friends, she is forced to leave Britain and moves to Paris. Many years later, her daughter approaches her, needing her help.

Actors

Ruth Chatterton

(Anna Keremazoff)Ivor Novello

(Bennett Cloud)Jill Esmond

(Faith Penwick)Geoffrey Kerr

(Jimmy Fenwick)Doris Lloyd

(Lady Ellen Somerville)
And :
Herbert Bunston
Bramwell Fletcher
Theodore von Eltz
Ethel Griffies
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