A Successful Calamity
A Successful Calamity
Release: 1932-09-17
·Runtime: 72m
·★ 5.2
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
The Vitaphone Corporation
Warner Bros. Pictures
Cast
George Arliss
as Henry Wilton
Allan Lane
as Polo Player (uncredited)
Claire McDowell
as Struthers' Secretary (uncredited)
Murray Kinnell
as Alfred Curtis - The Broker
Richard Tucker
as Lawrence - Partington's Partner
Lew Harvey
as Photographer at Train (uncredited)
Mary Astor
as Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
Hardie Albright
as George Struthers
Oscar Apfel
as President of the United States
Harold Minjir
as Watson - Eddie's Valet (as Harold Minjur)
Eula Guy
as Jane - the Cook's Helper
Charles Coleman
as Emmy's Musicale Butler
William Janney
as Eddie Wilton
Randolph Scott
as Larry Rivers
Fortunio Bonanova
as Pietro Rafaelo
Kate Drain Lawson
as Musicale Guest (uncredited)
Evalyn Knapp
as Peggy Wilton
Hale Hamilton
as John Belde
Virginia Hammond
as Mrs. Langstreet
Nola Luxford
as Mary (uncredited)
Grant Mitchell
as Connors
David Torrence
as Partington
Buddy Roosevelt
as Polo Player With Drinks (uncredited)
Leon Ames
as Barney Davis
Elspeth Dudgeon
as Musicale Guest (uncredited)
Barbara Leonard
as Pauline - The French Maid
Florence Wix
as Musicale Guest (uncredited)
Bill Elliott
as Polo Player (uncredited)
Ellinor Vanderveer
as Musicale Guest (uncredited)
Jack Rutherford
as Wilton's Chauffeur (as John Rutherford)
