The Sporting Widow
- Original title
- Madame Racketeer
- Year
- 1932
- Running time
- 72 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Alison Skipworth
- Richard Bennett
- George Raft
- John Breeden
- Evalyn Knapp
- Gertrude Messinger
- Robert McWade
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- Music
- Cinematography
Henry Sharp (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy
- Synopsis
- 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. One wishes to marry an upstanding young man, but his priggish father wants him to marry money. The younger daughter has taken up with hood. Though denying any filial bond, the Countess uses her wiles to try to get her family on track and avoid the detective on her trail.
- Awards
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1932: National Board of Review (NBR): Top 10 films
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