A Successful Calamity
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1932-09-17
Runtime: 72 mins
Director: John G. Adolfi
Writer: Clare Kummer, Julien Josephson, Maude T. Howell, Austin Parker
Spoken language: English
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Original title: A Successful Calamity
Production Companies: The Vitaphone Corporation, Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Countries: United States of America
Cast
George Arliss
Mary Astor
Evalyn Knapp
Grant Mitchell
William Janney
David Torrence
Hardie Albright
Randolph Scott
Hale Hamilton
Fortunio Bonanova
Oscar Apfel
Leon Ames
Elspeth Dudgeon
Allan Lane
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