The Cheaters (1945)
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A snooty blue-blooded English family learns a bitter lesson about the realities of lower class living in this British comedy. It all happens because the ditzy wife makes a terrible mistake with their money and loses a fortune. Her husband, a banker is at his wit's end as he scrambles about looking for much-needed cash. He tries his wife's wealthy, ailing uncle, but he has bequeathed his fortune to the actress he loved as a boy, (a woman he has never met). The aging star, who long ago disappeared from the screen, has no idea she is an heiress. Meanwhile, just before Christmas the daughter of the family brings home a boozy hambone of a fallen theater star who is short on cash. It is he who finds the missing actress and brings her into the house after convincing her that she and the family are related. Things go swimmingly and wealth is restored until the actor gets drunk and tells her the truth. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Joseph Schildkraut - Mr. M.
- Eugene Pallette - Mr. Pidgeon
- Raymond Walburn - Willie
- Ruth Terry - Therese
- David Holt - Reggie
- Virginia Carroll
- Frances Gladwin
- Norma Varden - Mattie, Mr. Pidgeon's secretary
- Billie Burke - Mrs. Pidgeon
- Ona Munson - Florie
- Ann Gillis - Angela
- Robert Livingston - Stephen Bates
- Robert Greig - MacFarland
- Harriette Haddon
- St. Luke's Choristers
- Byron Foulger - Process Server
- Director(s):
- Joseph Kane
- Writer(s):
- Frances Hyland
- Producer(s):
- Joseph Kane
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