The Woman Racket

The Woman Racket
Directed by Robert Ober
Albert H. Kelley
Paul Bern (uncredited)
Produced by Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Written by Philip Dunning (based on his play Night Hostess)
Starring Blanche Sweet
Music by William Axt
Cinematography J. Peverell Marley
Edited by Anton Stevenson
Basil Wrangell
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
January 24, 1930
Running time
70 minutes
Country United States
Language English

The Women Racket is an extant 1930 Pre-Code talking film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Tom Moore and Blanche Sweet. It is based on a 1928 Broadway play, Night Hostess by Philip Dunning. In January 2012 the film became available on DVD from the Warner Archive collection home library.[1][2][3][4] It was one of Blanche Sweet's three talking films. An example of the pre-Code dialogue in the film:

Tom: Julia, see that star up there?
Julia: Tom! Every man I've known has tried to show me that star up there.

Cast

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References

  1. "Obituary: Blanche Sweet, Film Actress". The New York Times. September 7, 1986. p. 42. Miss Sweet's three talkies were "Always Together" (1929), "The Woman Racket" and "The Silver Horde," (both 1930).
  2. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
  3. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:The Woman Racket
  4. Night Hostess, Broadway play upon which The Woman Racket is based, at the Martin Beck Theatre, September 12, 1928 to December 1928; IBDb.com; accessed July 23, 2015.

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