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The Woman Racket
''The Woman Racket'' is an extant 1930 Pre-Code talking film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Tom Moore and Blanche Sweet. It is based on a 1928 Broadway play, ''Night Hostess'' by Philip Dunning. In January 2012 the film became available on DVD from the Warner Archive collection home library.''Night Hostess'', Broadway play upon which ''The Woman Racket'' is based, at the Martin Beck Theatre, September 12, 1928 to December 1928
IBDb.com; accessed July 23, 2015. It was one of Blanche Sweet's three talking films.


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Robert Ober
Robert Howard Ober (May 10, 1881 – December 7, 1950) was an American stage and silent-screen actor. Early life Robert Howard Ober was born on May 10, 1881, in Bunker Hill, Illinois, to parents Robert Howard Ober Sr. and Joella W. Ober (née Davis). He attended Divoll grade school in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis. Career Ober started his theater career in St. Louis, Missouri at the Century Theatre. His first stage appearance was with the Colonel Hopkins Stock Company in the play ''In Mizzoura''. He also played in ''My Friend from India'' and ''Arizona''. He went on tour in the production of ''Madame X''. He then performed with the Harry Davis Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then moved to New York City. Ober appeared in '' The Little Gray Lady'', '' Gallops'', '' Brewster's Millions'' and '' Ready Money''. He appeared with Fay Templeton in ''Forty-five Minutes from Broadway''. He also appeared with Arnold Daly in '' You Can ...
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Tenen Holtz
Tenen Holtz (born Alex Elihu Tenenholtz; February 17, 1887 – July 1, 1971) was an American actor. He appeared in nearly 60 films between 1926 and 1961. Biography Holtz was born in Imperial Russia, and came to the United States when he was seven years old. While he was in elementary school, he began working, but he pursued studies in evening high school to improve his language abilities. Jacob Pavlovich Adler observed Holtz performing in a school production and not only gave him a permanent pass to Adler's playhouse but also allowed him to attend rehearsals. His first appearance in amateur Yiddish theatre plays occurred in 1903 in the staged readings of the works of Yiddish author Sholom Aleichem. In July 1926, he went to California "to see what all these pictures were about", he said. His film debut came in ''Upstage''. Holtz's final television appearance was as murder victim Otto Joseph in the 1964 ''Perry Mason'' episode, "The Case of the Arrogant Arsonist". He died in ...
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1930 Crime Drama Films
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Films Directed By Albert H
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Films
This is a list of feature films originally released and/or distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (to include MGM/UA Entertainment Co., MGM/UA Communications Co., MGM–Pathe Communications Co. and MGM/UA Distribution Co.). This list does not include films from United Artists before it merged with MGM (except for co-productions), nor does it include other studios that MGM acquired (such as Orion Pictures, The Samuel Goldwyn Company, Cannon Films). The pre-May 1986 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer catalogue is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery through the Turner Entertainment Co. Lists The films are divided into lists by decade: * List of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films (1924–1929) * List of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films (1930–1939) * List of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films (1940–1949) * List of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films (1950–1959) * List of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films (1960–1969) * List of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films (1970–1979) * List of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films (1980–1989) * List of Metro-Goldw ...
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Blanche Sweet Filmography
__NOTOC__ This is the filmography for Blanche Sweet. According to the Internet Movie Database, Sweet appeared in 161 films between 1909 and 1959. ---- 1909 - 1910 - 1911 - 1912 - 1913 - 1914 - 1915 - 1916 - 1917 - 1919 - Later films - References ---- 1909 * ''A Man with Three Wives'' (lost) * ''A Corner in Wheat'' * ''In Little Italy'' * ''To Save Her Soul'' * ''The Day After'' * ''Choosing a Husband'' 1910 * ''The Rocky Road'' * ''All on Account of the Milk'' * ''A Romance of the Western Hills'' * ''The Kid'' * '' A Flash of Light'' * '' Love in Quarantine'' 1911 * '' The Two Paths'' * ''Heart Beats of Long Ago'' * ''His Daughter'' * ''The Lily of the Tenements'' * '' A Decree of Destiny'' * ''Was He a Coward?'' * ''The Lonedale Operator'' * ''Priscilla's April Fool Joke'' * ''The Spanish Gypsy'' * ''Priscilla and the Umbrella'' * '' The Broken Cross'' * ''How She Triumphed'' (lost) * ''The Country Lovers'' * ''The New Dress'' * ''The Whit ...
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Richard Travers
Richard Travers (15 April 1885 – 20 April 1935) was a Canadian film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 140 films between 1912 and 1930. Selected filmography *''Homespun'' (1913) short for Essanay *''The Ambition of the Baron'' (1915) *''The Romance of an American Duchess'' (1915) *''The White Sister'' (1915) *''Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines'' (1916) * '' The Phantom Buccaneer'' (1916) * ''The Trufflers'' (1917) *''The White Moll'' (1920) *''The Single Track'' (1921) * ''The Rider of the King Log'' (1921) *''The Mountain Woman'' (1922) * ''Dawn of Revenge'' (1922) * ''Notoriety'' (1922) *''The Acquittal'' (1923) *'' The Broad Road'' (1923) *''Mary of the Movies'' (1923) – cameo *'' The Rendezvous'' (1923) * ''The House of Youth'' (1924) *'' Head Winds'' (1925) * '' The Truthful Sex'' (1926) * ''The Dangerous Dude'' (1926) * ''The Still Alarm'' (1926) *'' Lightnin''' (1925) *'' Melting Millions'' (1927) *''The Man Without a Face'' (1928) *'' The Black ...
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Eugene Borden
Eugene Borden (born Élysée Eugène Prieur-Bardin, March 21, 1897 – July 2, 1971) was an American character actor in silent and sound films. Born in France, he immigrated to the United States as a teenager, and entered the film industry a short time later. He appeared in over 150 films, as well as shorts, serials, and television shows. Life and career Born in Paris, France, on March 21, 1897, Borden immigrated to the United States in 1914 at the age of 17. By 1917 he had entered the film industry, appearing in a featured role in Christy Cabanne's ''The Slacker''. Over the next 43 years, Borden appeared in 160 feature films, usually in uncredited roles, many of which were as characters do menial labor, such as headwaiters, porters, pursers and coachmen. During his long career in films, Borden appeared in many notable movies. During the silent era, he appeared in such notable productions as: George D. Baker's ''Revelation'' (1918); '' Blue Blood'' (1925), directed by Scott R ...
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Tom London
Tom London (born Leonard T. Clapman; August 24, 1889 – December 5, 1963) was an American actor who played frequently in B-Westerns. According to ''The Guinness Book of Movie Records'', London is credited with appearing in the most films in the history of Hollywood, according to the 2001 book ''Film Facts'', which says that the performer who played in the most films was "Tom London, who made his first of over 2,000 appearances in '' The Great Train Robbery, 1903''. He used his birth name in films until 1924. Life and career Born in Louisville, Kentucky, London got his start in movies as a props man in Chicago, Illinois. His debut was in 1915 in the Western ''Lone Larry'', performing under his own name. The first film in which he was billed under his new name was ''Winds of Chance'', a World War I film, in which he played "Sgt. Rock". London was a trick rider and roper, and used his trick skills in scores of Westerns. In the silent-film era, he often played villainous roles, ...
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