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Madame X

1929, Movie, NR, 95 mins

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The first sound version of Frenchman Alexandre Bisson's classic tearjerker starring Chatterton (whose appearance here launched her as one of the first major female stars of the talkies) as the bored wife of a diplomat whose affair with a playboy leads her on a path of self-destruction. Routine in most respects, and the first directing effort by actor Lionel Barrymore. His skill behind the camera is evident, but the overly histrionic material prevents any true sparks from fly... read more leave a comment
Jacqueline (Ruth Chatterton), on her sojourn in China, rejects the advances of Naval officer Darrell (Carroll Nye) in Madame X, 1929, directed by Lionel Barrymore, from Alexandre Bisson's play.
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Posted: 1/29/2009
Opening credit sequence for the first talkie-version of Madame X, 1929, directed by Lionel Barrymore, from the play by Alexandre Bisson, starring Ruth Chatterton and Lewis Stone.
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Posted: 1/29/2009
Jacqueline (Ruth Chatterton) engages in cynical chat with Laroque (Ullrich Haupt), the Alsatian hustler who will become her victim, in the 1929 version of Madame X, directed by Lionel Barrymore.
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Posted: 1/29/2009
Lana Turner is a fallen woman on trial for murder who is defended by the son she abandoned years earlier in the seventh movie version of Madame X (1966).
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Posted: 8/1/2008
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Year: 1929
Rated NR

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Cast
Ruth Chatterton: Jacqueline
Lewis Stone: Floriot
Raymond Hackett: Raymond
Holmes Herbert: Noel
Eugenie Besserer: Rose
John P. Edington: Doctor

 

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