Fatal Lady
Cast & Crew
Edward Ludwig
Mary Ellis
Walter Pidgeon
John Halliday
Ruth Donnelly
Alan Mowbray
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Synopsis
On her debut as an opera star, Mary Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Mary attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. Phil's brother David distrusts her lack of interest in Phil, believing it to be a ploy to entrap him for his wealth. After a successful performance, Mary is courted by Uberto Malla, a wealthy patron, and Martan Fontes, director of an opera company in Rio. Malla proposes to Maria and offers her a position in the company in Rio, but she declines. While they are play-acting a scene, Malla is killed, and Mary is suspected as the murderer. She is acquitted, however, and travels with her agents Melba York and Rudy Hochstetter to Paris, with the hopeful Phil in tow. The negative publicity surrounding the murder has reduced Mary to performing in a nightclub as "Malevo, Siren of Song." Although Mary is adamant in her rejection, Phil persists in pursuing her until he is killed while waiting in a car for David. Seeing a connection between the marriage proposals and the murders, David poses as Mary's new suitor to trap the murderer, whom they suspect to be Fontes. The ruse works, and after falling from a catwalk over the stage, the murderer is revealed to be Glinka, who confesses before his death. Mary and David are united in love.
Director
Edward Ludwig
Cast
Mary Ellis
Walter Pidgeon
John Halliday
Ruth Donnelly
Alan Mowbray
Guy Bates Post
Sam Hinds
Norman Foster
Edgar Kennedy
Frank Puglia
Jean Rouverol
Frederic Roland
Laura Treadwell
Armand And Diana
Marshall Sohl
Mitchell Lewis
Harry Depp
Frank Hammond
Lucille Ward
Fern Emmett
Robert Graves
George Davis
Don Brodie
Albert Conti
Fred Vess
Peaches O'neil
Irene Franklin
Maurice Brierre
Russ Bell
Harry Oliver
Kenneth Rundquist
Tudor Williams
Charles Fallon
Maurice Cass
Mario Dominici
Ed Van Sloan
Russell Hicks
Ward Bond
Lucio Villegas
Paul Ellis
Carlos San Martin
Enrique Acosta
Eva Dennison
Isabel Lamal
William Pawley
Robert Du Couedic
Eugene Borden
William Davidson
Jerry Mandy
D'arcy Corrigan
Phil Sleeman
Jacques Lory
Manuel Paris
Genaro Spagnoli
Anna Demetrio
Mariska Aldrich
Hector Sarno
Russ Powell
Antonio Filauri
Alex Melesh
Gaston Glass
Catherine Courtney
Marie Wells
Nina Visaroff
Consuela Moreno
Minerva Sherwood
Virginia Lee
Arturo Turich
Nina Matleva
Maria Melesh
Rosa Caprino
H. O. Perline
Maximo Pilo
Elizabeth Rudnicki
Virginia Ainsworth
Eldon Jones
Jacques Vanaire
Georges Sorel
Crew
Howard Bristol
Gerard Carbonara
Sam Coslow
William Fox
William R. Lipman
Boris Morros
Boris Morros
Ernest Nims
David Ormont
Sam Ornitz
Boris Petroff
Leo Robin
Gioacchino Rossini
Harry Segall
Leon Shamroy
Ralph Slosser
Dick Talmadge
Helen Taylor
Max Terr
Tiffany Thayer
Alexander Toluboff
Victor Young
Adolph Zukor
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Notes
The working title was Brazen. A pre-release article lists Sam Ornitz and Horace McCoy as adaptors. According to news items in Hollywood Reporter, Carole Lombard was considered for the lead role, and Gene Thackrey was signed as co-adaptor with William Lipman. Thackrey's contribution to the final film has not been determined. Hollywood Reporter also reported that actor Dick Talmadge cancelled an arrangement to star in six Reliance Pictures films in order to be second unit director for this film. A contemporary article in Liberty magazine notes that Gaston Glass was a leading man to Sarah Bernhardt; in addition, the magazine claims that Rudolph Valentino's brother Alberto appears in this film. For information about Mary Ellis, see the note above for All the King's Horses.
