Dishonored Lady is a film starring Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American actress celebrated for her great beauty who was a major contract star of MGM's "Golden Age".Lamarr also co-invented – with composer George Antheil – an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, necessary to wireless...

, Dennis O'Keefe

Dennis O'Keefe

Dennis O'Keefe was an American actor. Born as Edward Vance Flanagan he was the son of Irish vaudevillians working in the United States...

, John Loder

John Loder (actor)

John Loder was a British-American actor. He was born William John Muir Lowe in London.-Early life:Loder's father was General W. H. M. Lowe, the British officer to whom Patrick Pearse, the leader of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland, surrendered...

, William Lundigan

William Lundigan

William Lundigan was an American film actor. His films include Dodge City , The Fighting 69th , The Sea Hawk , Santa Fe Trail , Dishonored Lady , Pinky , Love Nest with Marilyn Monroe, The House on Telegraph Hill , I'd Climb the Highest Mountain and Inferno...

, and Natalie Schafer

Natalie Schafer

Natalie Schafer was an American actress, best known as Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell on CBS's sitcom Gilligan's Island .-Early life and career:...

, directed by Robert Stevenson

Robert Stevenson (director)

Robert Stevenson was an English film writer and director. He was educated at Cambridge University where he became the president of both the Liberal Club and the Cambridge Union Society....

, and released by United Artists

United Artists

United Artists Corporation is an American film studio. The original studio of that name was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks....

. The film is based on the play Dishonored Lady (1930) by Edward Sheldon

Edward Sheldon

Edward Brewster Sheldon was an American dramatist. His plays include Salvation Nell and Romance , which was made into a motion picture with Greta Garbo....

 and Margaret Ayer Barnes

Margaret Ayer Barnes

Margaret Ayer Barnes was an American playwright, novelist, and short-story writer....

.

In 1936, a US Federal Court said that the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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 film Letty Lynton

Letty Lynton

Letty Lynton is a 1932 MGM drama film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery and Nils Asther. The film was directed by Clarence Brown, and based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes. Crawford plays the title character, in a tale of love and blackmail.The film has...

(1932), based on a novel by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes

Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes

Marie Adelaïde Lowndes, née Belloc , was a prolific English novelist.Active from 1904 until her death, she had a literary reputation for combining exciting incident with psychological interest...

, also plagiarized the Sheldon-Barnes play Dishonored Lady. This has resulted in Letty Lynton being out of distribution since 1936.

The film is also known as Sins of Madeleine.

Cast

• Hedy Lamarr
  Hedy Lamarr
  Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American actress celebrated for her great beauty who was a major contract star of MGM's "Golden Age".Lamarr also co-invented – with composer George Antheil – an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, necessary to wireless...
  
   as Madeleine Damien
• Dennis O'Keefe
  Dennis O'Keefe
  Dennis O'Keefe was an American actor. Born as Edward Vance Flanagan he was the son of Irish vaudevillians working in the United States...
  
   as Dr. David Cousins
• John Loder
  John Loder (actor)
  John Loder was a British-American actor. He was born William John Muir Lowe in London.-Early life:Loder's father was General W. H. M. Lowe, the British officer to whom Patrick Pearse, the leader of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland, surrendered...
  
   as Felix Courtland
• William Lundigan
  William Lundigan
  William Lundigan was an American film actor. His films include Dodge City , The Fighting 69th , The Sea Hawk , Santa Fe Trail , Dishonored Lady , Pinky , Love Nest with Marilyn Monroe, The House on Telegraph Hill , I'd Climb the Highest Mountain and Inferno...
  
   as Jack Garet
• Morris Carnovsky
  Morris Carnovsky
  Morris Carnovsky was an American stage and film actor born in St. Louis, Missouri. He worked briefly in the Yiddish theatre before attending Washington University in St. Louis...
  
   as Dr. Richard Caleb
• Natalie Schafer
  Natalie Schafer
  Natalie Schafer was an American actress, best known as Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell on CBS's sitcom Gilligan's Island .-Early life and career:...
  
   as Ethel Royce
• Paul Cavanagh
  Paul Cavanagh
  Paul Cavanagh was an English film actor. He appeared in over 100 films between 1928 and 1959. He was born in Chislehurst and died in London from a heart attack....
  
   as Victor Kranish
• Douglas Dumbrille as District Attorney
• Margaret Hamilton
  Margaret Hamilton
  Margaret Hamilton was an American film actress known for her portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz...
  
   as Mrs. Geiger, landlady
• Nicholas Joy as Defense Attorney