A Successful Calamity (1932)
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!
1932 · NR · 1h 12m · Comedy, Drama
Genres: Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: John G. Adolfi
Writers: Clare Kummer, Julien Josephson, Maude T. Howell
Music by: Bernhard Kaun
Cinematography: James Van Trees
Editor: Howard Bretherton
Cast
George Arliss as Henry WiltonMary Astor as Emmy 'Sweetie' WiltonEvalyn Knapp as Peggy WiltonGrant Mitchell as ConnorsWilliam Janney as Eddie WiltonDavid Torrence as PartingtonHardie Albright as George StruthersRandolph Scott as Larry RiversHale Hamilton as John BeldeFortunio Bonanova as Pietro RafaeloOscar Apfel as President of the United StatesLeon Ames as Barney DavisMore like this
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