Madame X (1929)
Release Date: Aug 17, 1929 Wide
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Alexandre Brisson's weepy 1906 play had already been filmed three times when the 1929 talkie Madame X made its debut. Ruth Chatterton stars as a low-born wife of a socialite, whose aristocratic in-laws kick her out when she gives birth to a baby boy of dubious parentage. The boy, who has been led to believe his mother is dead, grows up to become a renowned attorney (Raymond Hackett). Mama Chatterton takes to the streets, but proudly monitors her son's progress from afar. When Chatterton is
Aug 17, 1929 Wide
Cast
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Ruth Chatterton
Jacqueline Fleuriot -
Lewis Stone
Floriot -
Raymond Hackett
Raymond Fleuriot -
Holmes Herbert
Noel -
John P. Edington
Doctor -
Ullrich Haupt Sr.
Larocque -
Sidney Toler
Merivel -
Mitchell Lewis
Col. Hamby -
Richard Carle
Perissard -
Carroll Nye
Darrell -
Claude King
Valmorin -
Eugénie Besserer
Rose -
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Mary Gordon
Nursemaid -
Dickie Moore
Child
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Ruth Chatterton got Best Actress nomination and Lionel Barrymore a directing nod for the first talkie version of the old sentimental play about an all-suffering mother.
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