10 Jan 1930
Playing Around
New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go.
Madame Racketeer
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.
Top Billed Cast
Alison Skipworth Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks
Richard Bennett Elmer Hicks
George Raft Jack Houston
John Breeden David Butterworth
Evalyn Knapp Alice Hicks
Gertrude Messinger Patsy Hicks
Robert McWade James Butterworth
J. Farrell MacDonald John Adams
Oscar Apfel J. Harrington Hagney
Jessie Arnold Frankie
Irving Bacon Gus, the Desk Clerk
George Barbier Warden George Waddell
Frank Beal Appleby - Bank Director
Bonita Bit Role
Ed Brady Taxi Driver
Rita Carlyle Inquisitive convict
Anna Chandler Stella
Winter Hall Minister
Arthur Raymond Hill Shanks
Robert Homans Chief of Police
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