A Successful Calamity (1932)

Comedy Drama

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.

Updated May 27 2020

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US -

1932-09-17

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Keywords:

pianist pre-code high society

FACTS

Runtime: 72 mins Rating: 6.0

Cast

Randolph Scott

Larry Rivers

Mary Astor

Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton

Leon Ames

Barney Davis

Fortunio Bonanova

Pietro Rafaelo

Claire McDowell

Struthers' Secretary (uncredited)

Grant Mitchell

Connors

Hardie Albright

George Struthers

David Torrence

Partington