Superstitous contemporaries could adjudge the movie "The Scarlet Lady" (28) an ominous aura because not only Valentina Zimina but also some other involved persons died prematurely in the next ten years. The director Alan Crossland died at the age of 41 in 1936 due to a road accident, the leading actress Lya de Putti died at the age of 34 in 1931 due to a pneumonia she contracted after an operation because she swallowed a chicken bone, the leading actor Warner Oland died at the age of 58 in 1938 due to a bronchial pneumonia because of alcohol abuse and the actor Otto Matieson dies at the age of 38 in 1932.
