Love Is a Racket

Love Is a Racket

He puts the unfair sex on the spot

1932•1h 11m•5.3/10

CrimeDramaRomance

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.3/10(15)

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

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Production

First National Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

James 'Jimmy' Russell

Ann Dvorak

Ann Dvorak

Sally Condon

Frances Dee

Frances Dee

Mary Wodehouse

Lee Tracy

Lee Tracy

Stanley Fiske

Lyle Talbot

Lyle Talbot

Edward Griswold 'Eddie' Shaw

Warren Hymer

Warren Hymer

Burney Olds

André Luguet

André Luguet

Max Boncour

Cecil Cunningham

Cecil Cunningham

Aunt Hattie Donovan

Polly Walters

Polly Walters

Betty, Switchboard Operator (uncredited)

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