The Cheat

A Beautiful Girl- Gambling with one man for the love of another, until her selfishness plunged them into a crisis of disgrace!

The Cheat — 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?

• Release date
• November 28, 1931
• Runtime
• 67 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• George Abbott

The Cheat — Cast

Tallulah Bankhead Elsa Carlyle Harvey Stephens Jeffrey Carlyle Irving Pichel Hardy Livingstone

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Jay Fassett Terrell Ann Andrews Mrs. Albright

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William Ingersoll Croupier

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Hanaki Yoshiwara Japanese Servant

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Willard Dashiell Judge