Love is a Racket

Jun 18, 1932

1h 11m

★ 5.3

He puts the unfair sex on the spot

Overview

A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue who's beholden to a penthouse gangster.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

First National Pictures

Warner Bros. Pictures

Love is a Racket Trailers

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Cast

James 'Jimmy' Russell

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Sally Condon

Ann Dvorak

Mary Wodehouse

Frances Dee

Stanley Fiske

Lee Tracy

Edward Griswold 'Eddie' Shaw

Lyle Talbot

Burney Olds

Warren Hymer

Max Boncour

André Luguet

Aunt Hattie Donovan

Cecil Cunningham

Betty, Switchboard Operator (uncredited)

Polly Walters

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