The Laughing Lady (1929 film)

The Laughing Lady
Directed byVictor Schertzinger
Written byBartlett Cormack
Arthur Richman
Based onplay, The Laughing Lady, by Alfred Sutro[1]
Produced byParamount Famous Lasky Corporation
StarringRuth Chatterton
Clive Brook
CinematographyGeorge J. Folsey
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • December 28, 1929 (1929-12-28)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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.[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.

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.[3][circular reference] 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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References

  1. ^ The Laughing Lady as produced on Broadway, Longacre Theatre, February-May 1923
  2. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:The Laughing Lady
  3. ^ fr:Kacagó asszony


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