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.
Director John G. Adolfi
Cast
Mary Astor
Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
David Torrence
Partington
Leon Ames
Barney Davis
Murray Kinnell
Alfred Curtis - The Broker
Kate Drain Lawson
Musicale Guest (uncredited)
George Arliss
Henry Wilton
Oscar Apfel
President of the United States
Nola Luxford
Mary (uncredited)
Grant Mitchell
Connors
Allan Lane
Polo Player (uncredited)
Harold Minjir
Watson - Eddie's Valet (as Harold Minjur)
Barbara Leonard
Pauline - The French Maid
Jack Rutherford
Wilton's Chauffeur (as John Rutherford)
Florence Wix
Musicale Guest (uncredited)
Randolph Scott
Larry Rivers
Fortunio Bonanova
Pietro Rafaelo
Elspeth Dudgeon
Musicale Guest (uncredited)
Richard Tucker
Lawrence - Partington's Partner
Lew Harvey
Photographer at Train (uncredited)
Ellinor Vanderveer
Musicale Guest (uncredited)
Hale Hamilton
John Belde
Bill Elliott
Polo Player (uncredited)
William Janney
Eddie Wilton
Claire McDowell
Struthers' Secretary (uncredited)
Eula Guy
Jane - the Cook's Helper
Evalyn Knapp
Peggy Wilton
Hardie Albright
George Struthers
Virginia Hammond
Mrs. Langstreet
Charles Coleman
Emmy's Musicale Butler
Buddy Roosevelt
Polo Player With Drinks (uncredited)