Scarlet Pages
About Scarlet Pages
In 1911 Mary Bancroft gives up a baby she cannot keep. By 1930 she is a New York lawyer who will not marry District Attorney John Remington. At a nightclub she sees Nora Mason, her daughter, though neither woman knows it. Nora's adoptive father, Dr. Henry Mason, tries to hand her to Gregory Jackson. Nora shoots him. Mary defends her. In court Nora describes the abuse, Mary learns who she is and faints, and the jury acquits Nora.
Cast & crew
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Ray Enright directed it for First National. Warner Bros. distributed it. The script comes from the 1929 Broadway play by Samuel Shipman and John B. Hymer, which Elsie Ferguson had played on stage. William Rees photographed it. It opened in the United States on 28 September 1930. It was Ferguson's first sound film and her last.
Themes
Background
A 1930 First National pre-Code drama about a lawyer who discovers the defendant is the child she gave away.
Making
Ferguson came to the film from the same role on Broadway. She did not make another picture after it.
Look
William Rees shot the nightclub floor and the courtroom.
Music
Ernö Rapée and Louis Silvers scored it. Marian Nixon sings 'I'm Walking on Air.'
Notes
- Elsie Ferguson plays Mary Bancroft. Marian Nixon plays Nora. John Halliday plays Remington. Grant Withers plays Robert Lawrence.
- Wilbur Mack plays Dr. Henry Mason. William B. Davidson plays Gregory Jackson.
- Marian Nixon sings 'I'm Walking on Air,' by Archie Gottler and George W. Meyer.
- Ernö Rapée and Louis Silvers are credited with the music.
Scenes
- Mary watches Nora dance and does not know her.
- Nora shoots Dr. Mason after he tries to sell her to Jackson.
- Mary faints when the adoption is read in court.
