A Successful Calamity (1932)
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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Cast
- George Arliss — Henry Wilton
- Mary Astor — Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
- Evalyn Knapp — Peggy Wilton
- Grant Mitchell — Connors
- William Janney — Eddie Wilton
- David Torrence — Partington
- Hardie Albright — George Struthers
- Randolph Scott — Larry Rivers
- Hale Hamilton — John Belde
- Fortunio Bonanova — Pietro Rafaelo
- Oscar Apfel — President of the United States
- Leon Ames — Barney Davis
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