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Madame X
Also known as [Absinthe]
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Ten reels
Directed by Lionel Barrymore
Cast: Lewis Stone [Floriot], Ruth Chatterton [Jacqueline], Raymond Hackett [Raymond], Holmes Herbert [Noel], Eugenie Besserer [Rose], John P. Edington [the doctor], Mitchell Lewis [Colonel Hanby], Ullric Haupt (Ullrich Haupt) [Laroque], Sidney Toler [Merivel], Richard Carle [Perissard], Carroll Nye [Darrell], Claud King (Claude King) [Valmorin], Chappell Dossett [the judge], Douglas Scott [Raymond, as a child], Henry Armetta [the hotel owner], Agostino Borgato [a hotel porter], Jack Chefe [a nightclub waiter], Carrie Daumery [a dining room guest], Mary Gordon [the nursemaid], Sydney Jarvis [a gendarme at the trial], Sôjin Kamiyama [the Asian physician], Ronnie Cosby [a boy at the puppet show], Derry Dee [a boy at the puppet show], Edith Fellows [a girl at the puppet show], Frankie Genardi [a boy at the puppet show], Dickie Moore [a boy at the puppet show], Philip Sleeman [the sidewalk cafe waiter]
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Screenplay by Willard Mack, from the play La Femme X . . . by Alexandre Bisson. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons. Costume design by David Cox. Music by William Axt and Sam Wineland. Cinematography by Arthur Reed. Sound recording engineering by Russell Franks and Douglas Shearer. Film editor, William S. Gray. / Released 17 August 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric [?] Movietone? sound system. / The play was previously filmed as Madame X (1920). / Full-sound film.
Drama.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.3328.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 13 December 2024.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.2709; AFI-F2 n. F2.3328; Baer-Film p. 1; Vermilye-Twenties pp. 239-240 : Website-IMDb.
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