The Battle of the Sexes
12/10/1928
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?
Movie Information
Jean Hersholt
as William Judson
Phyllis Haver
as Marie Skinner
Belle Bennett
as Mrs. Judson
Sally O'Neil
as Ruth, the Daughter
Don Alvarado
as Babe Winsor
William Bakewell
as The Son
John Batten
as Judson's Friend
