Top Billed Cast

Gladys George
Jacqueline Fleuriot / Miss Pran / Madame X
Warren William
Bernard Fleuriot
John Beal
Raymond Fleuriot
Reginald Owen
Maurice Dourel
William Henry
Hugh Fariman Jr.
Henry Daniell
Lerocle
Phillip Reed
Jean Rochin
Lynne Carver
Helene
Emma Dunn
Rose, Fleuriot's Houskeeper
Ruth Hussey
Annette
Luis Alberni
Scipio
George Zucco
Dr. LaFarge
Cora Witherspoon
Nora
Jonathan Hale
Hugh Fariman Sr.
Adia Kuznetzoff
Captain Dorcas
Lowden Adams
Fleuriot's Butler
Stanley Andrews
Gendarme Testifying in Court
Sam Ash
Silent Gendarme at Villa
Joseph E. Bernard
Deck Steward on Yacht
Arthur Blake
Ferguson
Anita Camargo
Mexican Girl
Harvey Clark
Meryval
Ronnie Cosby
Peter Simonds
Nick De Ruiz
Hotel Porter
Donald Douglas
Mr. Edison
Barry Downing
Raymond Fleuriot, Age 3
Art Dupuis
Clerk at Newspaper Office
Leila Esparza
Girl
Fred Farrell
Porter
Christian J. Frank
Jailer
Helen Freeman
Nurse
Edward Gargan
Mate of Dorcas
Helen Giere
Mother
Frank Hagney
Jailer
Mahlon Hamilton
Spectator
Clarence Harvey
Fleuriot's Clerk
Edward Keane
Gendarme at Villa
Louis LaBey
Doctor in Court
Hal Le Sueur
Spectator
Edward LeSaint
Detective
Theodore Lorch
Pawnbroker
Viola Louie
Girl
Max Lucke
Wine Waiter
Francisco Marán
Gendarme in Court
Louis Mercier
French Newspaper Employee
Torben Meyer
Peridcord
Robert Middlemass
Prefect of Police
Belle Mitchell
Nun
Dickie Moore
Allan Simonds
Leonard Mudie
Prosecutor Valmorin
George Ovey
Bartender in Montage
Gene Perry
Gendarme with Prefect of Police
J.H. Peters
Spectator
Paul Porcasi
Hotel Gran Via Proprietor
Gene Reynolds
Raymond Fleuriot, Age 12-14
Katherine Sabichi
Customer at Nora's
Ferdinand Schumann-Heink
Maitre d'Hotel
Henry Taylor
Taxi Driver
Jacques Vanaire
Waiter
Frederick Vogeding
Gendarme in Court for Jacqueline
Charles Waldron
President of Court
E. Alyn Warren
Clerk
Nina Borget
Customer at Nora's
Christina Montt
Suzie
Bill Bradley
Attorney in Court (uncredited)

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Fri Jul 18 2025

When young lawyer “Raymond” (Raymond Hackett) is tasked with defending a self-confessed murderess, he tries to learn a little of just what drove her to commit a crime that she won’t explain nor attempt to hide from. It’s that retrospective that introduces us to “Madame X”. She (Ruth Chatterton) was a young woman married to an indifferent man “Louis” (Lewis Stone) whose unkindness drove her into the arms of another man. He died quite quickly afterwards, and her jealous husband forbade her access to their three year old son. Disconsolate, the woman took to a path of destitution and absinthe and t...