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.
Jeanne Eagels was to star in the film but died before production began.