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The Battle of the Sexes

Drama | Comedy

5.2

Release Date

October 12, 1928

Duration

88 min

Status

Released

Language

en

Overview

Gum-chewing frizzy-haired golddigger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly middle-aged real estate tycoon, William Judson. Marie moves into Judson's apartment building and contrives to meet and seduce him, plying him with compliments, music, swoons, décolletage, and batted eyes. When his loyal wife (and their two children) see him out catting with Marie at a night club, mom's devastated and confronts him. He moves out. Babe wants Marie to sell Judson worthless bonds. Will mom commit suicide? Will sis shoot the floozy? Will pops figure out he's being a fool?

Casts

Jean Hersholt

William Judson

Jean Hersholt

Phyllis Haver

Marie Skinner

Phyllis Haver

Belle Bennett

Mrs. Judson

Belle Bennett

Sally O'Neil

Ruth, the Daughter

Sally O'Neil

Don Alvarado

Babe Winsor

Don Alvarado

William Bakewell

The Son

William Bakewell

John Batten

Judson's Friend

John Batten

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