
A Successful Calamity
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.
A Successful Calamity
Rating
5.2/10
Release Date
1932-09-17
Runtime
72 minutes
Status
Released
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
Production Companies

The Vitaphone Corporation

Warner Bros. Pictures