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UNITED STATES · 1928
The Battle of the Sexes
Synopsis
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
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United States · Classical Hollywood
Films with Similar Themes
infidelity · con artists · seduction · marital conflict · gold digging
