A Successful Calamity
Released: September 17, 1932Runtime: 72 min
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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George Arliss
as Henry Wilton
Mary Astor
as Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
Evalyn Knapp
as Peggy Wilton
Grant Mitchell
as Connors - Wilton's Butler
Hardie Albright
as George Struther - Peggy's Beau
William Janney
as Eddie Wilton
David Torrence
as Partington
Randolph Scott
as Larry Rivers - The Polo Coach
Hale Hamilton
as John Belde - Wilton's Business Associate
Fortunio Bonanova
as Pietro Rafaelo - The Pianist
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