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A Successful Calamity

09/17/1932

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1hr 12min

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Comedy

,Drama

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!

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • George Arliss
  • Mary Astor
  • Evalyn Knapp
  • Grant Mitchell
  • William Janney

    Directors

  • John G. Adolfi
  • Howard Bretherton

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • The Vitaphone Corporation
  • Warner Bros. Pictures

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

George Arliss

Henry Wilton

Mary Astor

Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton

Evalyn Knapp

Peggy Wilton

Grant Mitchell

Connors

William Janney

Eddie Wilton

David Torrence

Partington

Hardie Albright

George Struthers

Randolph Scott

Larry Rivers

Hale Hamilton

John Belde

Fortunio Bonanova

Pietro Rafaelo

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