The Cheat
Drama
A Beautiful Girl- Gambling with one man for the love of another, until her selfishness plunged them into a crisis of disgrace!
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?
1931-11-28
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Cast
Director
George Abbott
Tallulah Bankhead as Elsa Carlyle
Harvey Stephens as Jeffrey Carlyle
Irving Pichel as Hardy Livingstone
Ann Andrews as Mrs. Albright
Edward Keane as Defense Attorney
Robert Strange as District Attorney
Porter Hall as Leslie (uncredited)
Arthur Hohl as Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Millard Mitchell as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Beatrice Hagen as Dancer (uncredited)
Loretta Andrews as (uncredited)
Barbara Brown as (uncredited)
Bess Flowers as (uncredited)
Jack Gargan as (uncredited)
Victor Kilian as (uncredited)
Ethelreda Leopold as (uncredited)
Harold Miller as (uncredited)
Ronald R. Rondell as (uncredited)
Benny Rubin as (uncredited)