Madame Racketeer

Madame Racketeer

72 mins | Comedy | July 23, 1932

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.

Madame Racketeer

72 mins | Comedy | July 23, 1932

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.
Producers
Original title Madame Racketeer
Directors Harry Wagstaff Gribble, Alexander Hall
Writers Harvey Gates, Malcolm Stuart Boylan

Cast

Alison Skipworth

as Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks

Richard Bennett

as Elmer Hicks

George Raft

as Jack Houston

John Breeden

as David Butterworth

Evalyn Knapp

as Alice Hicks

Gertrude Messinger

as Patsy Hicks

Robert McWade

as James Butterworth

J. Farrell MacDonald

as John Adams

Oscar Apfel

as J. Harrington Hagney

Jessie Arnold

as Frankie

Irving Bacon

as Gus, the Desk Clerk

George Barbier

as Warden George Waddell

Frank Beal

as Appleby - Bank Director

Bonita

as Bit Role

Ed Brady

as Taxi Driver

Rita Carlyle

as Inquisitive convict

Anna Chandler

as Stella

Winter Hall

as Minister

Robert Homans

as Chief of Police

Arthur Hoyt

as Shiffem

William Humphrey

as Bank Director

Alfred P. James

as Bank Director

Edgar Lewis

as Bank Director

Kate Morgan

as Maxine

Nellie V. Nichols

as Bit Role

Edward Peil Sr.

as Train Passenger

Scott Seaton

as Bank Director

Cora Shumway

as Matron

Oscar Smith

as Train Porter

Walter Walker

as Arthur Gregory

Eleanor Wesselhoeft

as Mrs. Donkenspeil