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!

Released: 1932-09-17

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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.

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George Arliss

as Henry Wilton

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Mary Astor

as Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton

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Evalyn Knapp

as Peggy Wilton

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William Janney

as Eddie Wilton

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David Torrence

as Partington

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Hardie Albright

as George Struthers

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Randolph Scott

as Larry Rivers

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Hale Hamilton

as John Belde

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Fortunio Bonanova

as Pietro Rafaelo

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Oscar Apfel

as President of the United States

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Leon Ames

as Barney Davis

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Elspeth Dudgeon

as Musicale Guest (uncredited)

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Allan Lane

as Polo Player (uncredited)

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Claire McDowell

as Struthers' Secretary (uncredited)

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Murray Kinnell

as Alfred Curtis - The Broker

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Harold Minjir

as Watson - Eddie's Valet (as Harold Minjur)

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Barbara Leonard

as Pauline - The French Maid

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Eula Guy

as Jane - the Cook's Helper

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Virginia Hammond

as Mrs. Langstreet

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