Word: grifter
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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Madame Racketeer (Paramount) is a female version of Cracksman Jimmy Valentine in the small town. Alison Skipworth is the grizzled old grifter with formidable dimples. She is the long-forgotten wife of a provincial hotelkeeper (Richard Bennett) and the mother of his two daughters. A rolling stone, she comes back to the starting line for moss, incognito except to her husband. But for $20 she swindled out of the warden as she was leaving her latest penitentiary she is penniless, but she caracoles into town as the Countess of Auburn. She finds one daughter's marriage being blocked...