The Woman Racket

{{short description|1930 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Woman Racket

| image =

| caption =

| director = Robert Ober
Albert H. Kelley
Paul Bern (uncredited)

| producer = Metro Goldwyn Mayer

| based_on = {{based on|Night Hostess
1928 novel|Philip Dunning
Frances Dunning}}

| writer = Albert Shelby Le Vino

| starring = Blanche Sweet

| music = William Axt

| cinematography = J. Peverell Marley

| editing = Anton Stevenson
Basil Wrangell

| distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

| released = {{Film date|1930|01|24}}

| runtime = 70 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

The Woman Racket is an extant 1930 Pre-Code talking film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Tom Moore and Blanche Sweet. It is based on a 1928 Broadway play, Night Hostess by Philip Dunning. In January 2012 the film became available on DVD from the Warner Archive collection home library.{{cite news|title=Obituary: Blanche Sweet, Film Actress|date=September 7, 1986|work=The New York Times|page=42|quote=Miss Sweet's three talkies were "Always Together" (1929), "The Woman Racket" and "The Silver Horde," (both 1930).}}The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=13442 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:The Woman Racket][http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=10714 Night Hostess, Broadway play upon which The Woman Racket is based, at the Martin Beck Theatre, September 12, 1928 to December 1928]; IBDb.com; accessed July 23, 2015. It was one of Blanche Sweet's three talking films.