The Love Racket
1929 film
- December 8, 1929 (1929-12-08) (United States)
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The Love Racket is a 1929 American early sound crime drama film produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was directed by William A. Seiter and starred Dorothy Mackaill. It is based on a Broadway play, The Woman on the Jury by Bernard K. Burns, and is a remake of a 1924 silent film of the same name which starred Bessie Love.[1][2] The film is now considered lost.[3][4]
Myrtle Stedman reprises her role from the silent version in this film.
Cast
- Dorothy Mackaill as Betty Brown
- Sidney Blackmer as Fred Masters
- Edmund Burns as George Wayne
- Myrtle Stedman as Marion Masters
- Edwards Davis as Judge Davis
- Webster Campbell as Prosecuting Attorney
- Clarence Burton as Defense Attorney
- Alice Day as Grace Pierce
- Edith Yorke as Mrs. Pierce
- Martha Mattox as Mrs. Slade
- Tom Mahoney as Detective McGuire
- Jack Curtis as John Gerrity
See also
- List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
References
- ^ White Munden, Kenneth (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930. University of California Press. p. 460. ISBN 0-520-20969-9.
- ^ The Woman on the Jury as produced on Broadway at the Eltinge 42nd Street theatre, August 15, 1923; IBDb.com
- ^ The Love Racket at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: First National Pictures (1929)
- ^ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:..The Love Racket
External links
- The Love Racket at IMDb
- The Love Racket at AllMovie
- Lobby poster
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Films directed by William A. Seiter
- The Kentucky Colonel (1920)
- Eden and Return (1921)
- Hearts and Masks (1921)
- The Foolish Age (1921)
- Passing Through (1921)
- Boy Crazy (1922)
- Gay and Devilish (1922)
- Up and at 'Em (1922)
- When Love Comes (1922)
- The Understudy (1922)
- The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
- Little Church Around the Corner (1923)
- Daddies (1924)
- His Forgotten Wife (1924)
- The White Sin (1924)
- Listen Lester (1924)
- The Family Secret (1924)
- Helen's Babies (1924)
- The Fast Worker (1924)
- The Mad Whirl (1925)
- Dangerous Innocence (1925)
- The Teaser (1925)
- Where Was I? (1925)
- What Happened to Jones (1926)
- Skinner's Dress Suit (1926)
- Rolling Home (1926)
- Take It from Me (1926)
- The Cheerful Fraud (1927)
- The Small Bachelor (1927)
- Thanks for the Buggy Ride (1928)
- Good Morning, Judge (1928)
- Waterfront (1928)
- Outcast (1928)
- Why Be Good? (1929)
- Smiling Irish Eyes (1929)
- Footlights and Fools (1929)
- The Love Racket (1929)
- Strictly Modern (1930)
- Back Pay (1930)
- The Truth About Youth (1930)
- Sunny (1930)
- Going Wild (1930)
- Kiss Me Again (1931)
- Big Business Girl (1931)
- Too Many Cooks (1931)
- Caught Plastered (1931)
- Way Back Home (1931)
- Girl Crazy (1932)
- Young Bride (1932)
- Is My Face Red? (1932)
- Hot Saturday (1932)
- If I Had a Million (segment "The Three Marines", 1932)
- Hello, Everybody! (1933)
- Diplomaniacs (1933)
- Rafter Romance (1933)
- Chance at Heaven (1933)
- Sons of the Desert (1933)
- Love Birds (1934)
- We're Rich Again (1934)
- The Richest Girl in the World (1934)
- Roberta (1935)
- The Daring Young Man (1935)
- If You Could Only Cook (1935)
- The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936)
- The Moon's Our Home (1936)
- Dimples (1936)
- Stowaway (1936)
- Life Begins in College (1937)
- This Is My Affair (1937)
- Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)
- Room Service (1938)
- Thanks for Everything (1938)
- Susannah of the Mounties (1939)
- Allegheny Uprising (1939)
- It's a Date (1940)
- Hired Wife (1940)
- Nice Girl? (1941)
- Appointment for Love (1941)
- Broadway (1942)
- You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
- Destroyer (1943)
- A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)
- Four Jills in a Jeep (1944)
- Belle of the Yukon (1944)
- The Affairs of Susan (1945)
- That Night with You (1945)
- Little Giant (1946)
- I'll Be Yours (1947)
- Up in Central Park (1948)
- One Touch of Venus (1948)
- Borderline (1950)
- Dear Brat (1951)
- The Lady Wants Mink (1953)
- Champ for a Day (1953)
- Make Haste to Live (1954)
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