The Laughing Lady (1929 film)

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 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