"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).
Is this one actually worth your time? If you love Pre-Code movies where women get to be complicated and a little bit 'bad' without the movie immediately throwing them off a bridge, you’ll probably dig this. ☕ But if you can't stand old-fashioned stage acting or plots that rely on giant coincidences, you should probab...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Guthrie McClintic
Dallas M. Fitzgerald
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"Is this one actually worth your time? If you love Pre-Code movies where women get to be complicated and a little bit 'bad' without the movie immediately throwing them off a bridge, you’ll probably dig this. ☕ But if you can't stand old-fashioned stage acting or plots that rely on giant coincidences, you should probably skip it and watch something like The Sign of the Cross instead. I went into this mostly because I wanted to see Ivor Novello, who was apparently a huge deal in England back the..."
Samuel Hoffenstein, Zoe Akins, Rudolph Bernauer, Rudolf Österreicher
United States
1928 · IMDb —
