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The Love Racket
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Wikipedia article
'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.[http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=8356 'The Woman on the Jury' as produced on Broadway at the Eltinge 42nd Street theatre, August 15, 1923; IBDb.com] The film is now considered lost.[http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arnefirstnational.html 'The Love Racket' at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: 'First National Pictures' (1929)][http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7108/default.html The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:'..The Love Racket']
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
References
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