Slightly Scarlet (1930 film)

{{short description|1930 film}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2020}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Slightly Scarlet

| image = Slightly Scarlet lobby card 2.jpg

| caption = Lobby card

| director = Louis J. Gasnier
Edwin H. Knopf

| writer = Howard Estabrook
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Percy Heath (play)

| starring = Evelyn Brent

| cinematography = Allen G. Siegler

| editing = Eda Warren

| distributor = Paramount Pictures

| released = {{film date|1930|2|22}}

| runtime = 70 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

Slightly Scarlet is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy drama film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and Edwin H. Knopf and starring Evelyn Brent and Clive Brook.{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/110606/Slightly-Scarlet/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105103130/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/110606/Slightly-Scarlet/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 5, 2012 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Hal Erickson |title=Slightly Scarlet |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2012 |access-date=September 25, 2011 }}The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 published by The American Film Institute, c.1971 The film was shot in several different language versions, with different casts. The French version was titled L'énigmatique Mr. Parkes, and stars Claudette Colbert as Lucy and Adolphe Menjou as Parkes.{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=53975 | publisher=American Film Institute | title=L'énigmatique Mr. Parkes: Detail View |access-date=August 15, 2017}}