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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.

• 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

• List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)

• The Laughing Lady at IMDb.com
• The Laughing Lady at tcm.com
• synopsis at AllMovie
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