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The Cheat

6.0191559mNRMovieDrama

A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.

DirectorCecil B. DeMille
WritersHector Turnbull·Jeanie Macpherson
ProducersJesse L. Lasky·Cecil B. DeMille

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Cast · Directed by Cecil B. DeMille

FWFannie Ward
Fannie Ward
Edith Hardy
SHSessue Hayakawa
Sessue Hayakawa
Hishuru Tori [Haka Arakau]
JDJack Dean
Jack Dean
Richard Hardy
JNJames Neill
James Neill
Jones
YA
Yutaka Abe
Tori's valet
DO
Dana Ong
District attorney
HC
Hazel Childers
Mrs. Reynolds
AW
Arthur H. Williams
Courtroom judge
DR
Dick La Reno
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
LLLucien Littlefield
Lucien Littlefield
Hardy's Secretary (uncredited)
RHRaymond Hatton
Raymond Hatton
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

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