A Successful Calamity(1932)
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.
Movie: A Successful Calamity
Top 10 Billed Cast
Henry Wilton
Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
Peggy Wilton
Connors
Eddie Wilton
Partington
George Struthers
Larry Rivers
John Belde
Pietro Rafaelo
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