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1932

A Successful Calamity

Directed by John G. Adolfi
WITH A SNAP OF HIS FINGERS HE THROWS MILLIONS AWAY BECAUSE HE WANTED LAUGHS! He turned from a human check book into a human being and taught his family to laugh!

Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.

Duration

1h 12m

Released

September 17, 1932

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Cast34

  • George Arliss
  • Mary Astor
  • Evalyn Knapp
  • Grant Mitchell
  • William Janney
  • David Torrence
  • Hardie Albright
  • Randolph Scott
  • Hale Hamilton

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