Comedy ·Drama · United States of America · 1932 · 1h 12m

A Successful Calamity

Director

Cast

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

Crew

James Van Trees — Director of Photography Howard Bretherton — Editor Bernhard Kaun — Original Music Composer Clare Kummer — Writer Austin Parker — Writer Maude T. Howell — Writer

Tagline

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!

Synopsis

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.

Mood & Themes

Key Collaborators

John G. Adolfi Director James Van Trees Director of Photography Howard Bretherton Editor Bernhard Kaun Original Music Composer Clare Kummer Writer Austin Parker Writer Maude T. Howell Writer Julien Josephson Writer Lucien Hubbard Producer Anton Grot Production Design

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