The Cheat
A Beautiful Girl- Gambling with one man for the love of another, until her selfishness plunged them into a crisis of disgrace!
1931 en 67 minutes
Rating: 6.3
Plot
Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler. Though loved by her husband Jeff, she's spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile, Jeff wants to stop spending while he completes business deals that could make them rich. One night, on a hunch, she bets and loses big at a casino, and then she doubles her problems with more impulsive decisions. Hardy Livingstone, a wealthy Casanova just back from the Orient, makes a play for her. Elsa dallies with Hardy, but soon, his insistence and her dire financial affairs seem destined to lead to adultery. Who's the cheat?
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Cast
Tallulah Bankhead
Elsa Carlyle
Harvey Stephens
Jeffrey Carlyle
Irving Pichel
Hardy Livingstone
Jay Fassett
Terrell
Ann Andrews
Mrs. Albright
William Ingersoll
Croupier
Hanaki Yoshiwara
Japanese Servant
Willard Dashiell
Judge
Edward Keane
Defense Attorney
Robert Strange
District Attorney
Porter Hall
Leslie (uncredited)
Arthur Hohl
Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Millard Mitchell
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Jimmy Granato
Orchestra Musician (uncredited)
Henry Warwick
Butler (uncredited)
Margaret Carthew
Dancer (uncredited)
Beatrice Hagen
Dancer (uncredited)
Juanita Hagen
Dancer (uncredited)
Suzanne Wunderlich
Dancer (uncredited)
Lulu Yoo
Dancer (uncredited)
Gwen Zetter
Dancer (uncredited)
Loretta Andrews
(uncredited)
Barbara Brown
(uncredited)
Bess Flowers
(uncredited)
Jack Gargan
(uncredited)
Victor Kilian
(uncredited)
Ethelreda Leopold
(uncredited)
Harold Miller
(uncredited)
Patsy Moran
(uncredited)
Ronald R. Rondell
(uncredited)
Benny Rubin
(uncredited)
Bee Stephens
(uncredited)
