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The Laughing Lady is a american film of genre Drama directed by Victor Schertzinger released in USA on 28 december 1929 with Ruth Chatterton

The Laughing Lady (1929)

The Laughing Lady
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Released in USA 28 december 1929
Length 1h20
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating65% 3.2929653.2929653.2929653.2929653.292965

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. 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.

Actors

Ruth Chatterton

(Marjorie Lee)Clive Brook

(Daniel Farr)Nat Pendleton

(James Dugan)Raymond Walburn

(Hector Lee)Joe King

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