Once a Lady is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Guthrie McClintic and starring Ruth Chatterton, Ivor Novello and Jill Esmond.

The film, produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures, is a remake of the Pola Negri silent film Three Sinners (1928).

[1][2] The film was the final attempt by British matinée idol Novello to establish himself in Hollywood.

[3] A young Russian woman marries a wealthy Englishman, and has a daughter with him.

After she has an affair with one of his friends, she is forced to leave Britain and moves to Paris.