A Successful Calamity
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!
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.
1932-09-17
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Cast
Director
John G. Adolfi
George Arliss as Henry Wilton
Mary Astor as Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
Evalyn Knapp as Peggy Wilton
Grant Mitchell as Connors
William Janney as Eddie Wilton
David Torrence as Partington
Hardie Albright as George Struthers
Randolph Scott as Larry Rivers
Hale Hamilton as John Belde
Fortunio Bonanova as Pietro Rafaelo
Oscar Apfel as President of the United States
Leon Ames as Barney Davis
Elspeth Dudgeon as Musicale Guest (uncredited)
Allan Lane as Polo Player (uncredited)
Claire McDowell as Struthers' Secretary (uncredited)
Murray Kinnell as Alfred Curtis - The Broker
Harold Minjir as Watson - Eddie's Valet (as Harold Minjur)
Barbara Leonard as Pauline - The French Maid
Eula Guy as Jane - the Cook's Helper
Virginia Hammond as Mrs. Langstreet
Richard Tucker as Lawrence - Partington's Partner
Charles Coleman as Emmy's Musicale Butler
Jack Rutherford as Wilton's Chauffeur (as John Rutherford)
Bill Elliott as Polo Player (uncredited)
Lew Harvey as Photographer at Train (uncredited)
Kate Drain Lawson as Musicale Guest (uncredited)
Nola Luxford as Mary (uncredited)
Buddy Roosevelt as Polo Player With Drinks (uncredited)
Ellinor Vanderveer as Musicale Guest (uncredited)
Florence Wix as Musicale Guest (uncredited)