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A Successful Calamity (1932)

A Successful Calamity (1932)

Drama Comedy

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!

Release Date: 1932, September 17
Directors: John G. Adolfi
Countries: United States of America
Production: The Vitaphone Corporation, Warner Bros. Pictures
Cast: Randolph Scott, Ellinor Vanderveer, Fortunio Bonanova, Lew Harvey, Buddy Roosevelt, Hardie Albright, Florence Wix, Leon Ames, Bill Elliott, Mary Astor, Elspeth Dudgeon, Murray Kinnell

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

pianist high society pre-code