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Scarlet Pages

193066 minUnited States
DramaCrimeAdventure
Video edition
Wikimedia Commons
Original language
English
This copy runs
62:55
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

Languages and subtitles

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Wikimedia Commons · Ray Enright · Public domain

Synopsis

A successful lawyer agrees to defend a nightclub performer accused of killing her adoptive father. The case exposes abuse and a coercive arrangement, while drawing the lawyer toward a painful connection with her own past.

Cast

DirectorsRay Enright

Inspirations

Elsie Ferguson repeated a role she had played on Broadway. The adaptation became both her only sound-film appearance and her final screen performance.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

Photograph credit

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  • Elsie Ferguson — Bain News Service; This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ggbain.03462 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing . · Public domain
  • John Halliday — Los Angeles Times · CC BY 4.0
  • Grant Withers — trailer screenshot (RKO) · Public domain
  • Marian Nixon — Photoplay magazine; http://www.silentladies.com/PhtplayNQ.html · Public domain

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