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Dishonored Lady
Dishonored Lady is a 1947 American film noir crime film directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Hedy Lamarr, Dennis O'Keefe, and John Loder. It is based on the 1930 play "Dishonored Lady" by Edward Sheldon and Margaret Ayer Barnes. The film is also known as Sins of Madeleine. Hedy Lamarr and John Loder were married when they made this film; they divorced before the year was out.
It is the story of a beautiful art department editor at a high-profile Manhattan fashion magazine who becomes
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In the courtyard standing before the firing squad, she declines a blindfold. After a short delay, due to a futile protest from a youthful intelligence officer, she is shot.
Production.
Sternberg based his "espionage melodrama" loosely on the exploits and demise of Dutch spy Mata Hari, with screenplay by Daniel Nathan Rubin. The title "Dishonored" as conferred upon the film by studio executives over Sternberg's objections - "the lady spy was not dishonored, but killed by firing squad" - because