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