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