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A Successful Calamity

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!

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A Successful Calamity — Plot

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.

  • Release date
  • September 17, 1932
  • Runtime
  • 72 min
  • Genres
  • Comedy, Drama
  • Director
  • John G. Adolfi

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A Successful Calamity — Cast

George Arliss photo George Arliss Henry Wilton Mary Astor photo Mary Astor Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton Evalyn Knapp photo Evalyn Knapp Peggy Wilton Grant Mitchell photo Grant Mitchell Connors William Janney photo William Janney Eddie Wilton David Torrence photo David Torrence Partington Hardie Albright photo Hardie Albright George Struthers Randolph Scott photo Randolph Scott Larry Rivers

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