The Lady Refuses (1931)

Description

The Lady Refuses is a 1931 American pre-Code melodrama film, directed by George Archainbaud, from a screenplay by Wallace Smith, based on an original story by Guy Bolton and Robert Milton. It stars Betty Compson as a destitute young woman on the verge of becoming a prostitute, who is hired by a wealthy man to woo his never-do-well son away from the clutches of a gold-digger (Margaret Livingston). The plot is regarded as risqué enough to appear in at least one collection of pre-Code Hollywood films.

Cast:

• Ivan Lebedeff-Margaret Livingston in The Lady Refuses
• Betty Compson as June
• John Darrow as Russell Courtney
• Gilbert Emery as Sir Gerald Courtney
• Margaret Livingston as Berthine Waller
• Ivan Lebedeff as Nikolai Rabinoff
• Edgar Norton as Sir Gerald’s Butler
• Daphne Pollard as Apartment House Maid
  (cast list as per AFI database)