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A Successful Calamity (1932)
Directed by John G. Adolfi
Overview
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.
Rated NR | Length 72 minutes
Actors
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 | Claire McDowell | Murray Kinnell | Harold Minjir | Barbara Leonard | Eula Guy | Virginia Hammond | Richard Tucker | Charles Coleman | Jack Rutherford | Helena Phillips Evans | Bill Elliott | Charles E. Evans | Lew Harvey | Fred Howard | Lillian Lawrence | Kate Drain Lawson | Nola Luxford | Buddy Roosevelt | Ellinor Vanderveer | Florence Wix