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The Lady of Scandal. The Lady of Scandal is a 1930 American pre-Code romance-comedy-drama film directed by Sidney Franklin, based on the 1927 play The High Road by Frederick Lonsdale, and starring Ruth Chatterton, Basil Rathbone and Ralph Forbes. Its plot follows a British actress who becomes involved with a member of an aristocratic family ...
The Lady of Scandal: Directed by Sidney Franklin. With Ruth Chatterton, Basil Rathbone, Ralph Forbes, Nance O'Neil. A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.
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- Romance, Comedy, Drama
- Sidney Franklin
- 1930-05-24
Barry Thomson. . . ( m. 1942; died 1960) . Ruth Chatterton (December 24, 1892 – November 24, 1961) was an American stage, film, and television actress, aviator and novelist. She was at her most popular in the early to mid-1930s, and in the same era gained prominence as an aviator, one of the few female pilots in the United States at the time ...
A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires. British nobleman John (Ralph Forbes) falls in love with famous actress Elsie (Ruth Chatterton) and forces the marriage issue by publishing their engagement. He plans to take her to his father's estate to meet his ...
6,858ft (8 reels) Elsie, a popular English actress, falls in love with John, a young nobleman, who takes her to visit his family's estate, where his relatives hope she will be sufficently bored to give him up. Instead, her freshness soon invigorates the staid family members, and a secret affair develops between Elsie and Edward, the prospective ...
- Sidney Franklin
- Ruth Chatterton
The Lady of Scandal (1930) ** (out of 4) This early talkie features Ruth Chatterton playing Elsie Hilary, a British actress who is engaged to a man from a snobbish rich family. Everyone in the family objects to her "nature" except for Edward (Basil Rathbone) who finds himself falling for her.
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The. Lady of Scandal. (1930) 76 minutes, b&w. The Lady of Scandal was originally called The High Road, the same title as Frederick Lonsdale’s play upon which the film is based. The change in title (announced in The Film Daily, April 24, 1930) is puzzling because there is no scandal involved on the part of Ruth Chatterton's character.
