The Lady of Scandal
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Directed by | Sidney Franklin |
Based on | the play The High Road by Frederick Lonsdale |
Starring | Ruth Chatterton Basil Rathbone |
Cinematography | Oliver T. Marsh Arthur Miller |
Edited by | Margaret Booth |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date |
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Running time | 76 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Lady of Scandal is a 1930 American pre-Code romance, comedy film, melodrama 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, who try desperately to thwart the match. It is also known by the alternative title of The High Road.
Cast
- Ruth Chatterton as Elsie
- Basil Rathbone as Edward
- Ralph Forbes as John
- Nance O'Neil as Lady Trench
- Frederick Kerr as Lord Trench
- Herbert Bunston as Lord Crayle
- Cyril Chadwick as Sir Reginald
- Effie Ellsler as Lady Minster
- Robert Bolder as Hilary
- Moon Carroll as Alice
- Mackenzie Ward as Ernest
- Edgar Norton as Morton
External links
Categories:
- 1930 films
- American films
- English-language films
- 1930s romantic comedy-drama films
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
- American romantic comedy-drama films
- Films made before the MPAA Production Code
- American black-and-white films
- Films set in England
- American films based on plays
- 1930 comedy films
- 1930 drama films
- 1930s comedy-drama film stubs