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Madame Racketeer
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Madame Racketeer

Jul 23, 1932
1h 12m
★ 5.3

Overview

International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.

Genres

Comedy

Cast

Alison Skipworth

Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks

Alison Skipworth

Richard Bennett

Elmer Hicks

Richard Bennett

George Raft

Jack Houston

George Raft

John Breeden

David Butterworth

John Breeden

Evalyn Knapp

Alice Hicks

Evalyn Knapp

Gertrude Messinger

Patsy Hicks

Gertrude Messinger

Robert McWade

James Butterworth

Robert McWade

J. Farrell MacDonald

John Adams

J. Farrell MacDonald

Oscar Apfel

J. Harrington Hagney

Oscar Apfel

Jessie Arnold

Frankie

Jessie Arnold

Irving Bacon

Gus, the Desk Clerk

Irving Bacon

George Barbier

Warden George Waddell

George Barbier

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