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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.
Length 72 minutes
Actors
Randolph Scott | Mary Astor | Leon Ames | Richard Tucker | Fortunio Bonanova | Claire McDowell | Grant Mitchell | Hardie Albright | David Torrence | Fred Howard | Elspeth Dudgeon | William Janney | Evalyn Knapp | Barbara Leonard | Kate Drain Lawson | Murray Kinnell | Allan Lane | Bill Elliott | George Arliss | Oscar Apfel | Helena Phillips Evans | Eula Guy | Lillian Lawrence | Hale Hamilton | Charles Coleman | Charles E. Evans | Lew Harvey | Harold Minjir | Virginia Hammond | Jack Rutherford | Buddy Roosevelt | Ellinor Vanderveer | Florence Wix | Nola Luxford