A Successful Calamity

5.6 1932 72 min

NR

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 bro…

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Director: John G. Adolfi
Writers: Clare Kummer, Maude T. Howell, Julien Josephson, Austin Parker
Classification: NR

Cast

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George Arliss Henry Wilton

Mary Astor Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton

Evalyn Knapp Peggy Wilton

Grant Mitchell Connors

William Janney Eddie Wilton

David Torrence Partington

Hardie Albright George Struthers

Randolph Scott Larry Rivers

Hale Hamilton John Belde

Fortunio Bonanova Pietro Rafaelo

Oscar Apfel President of the United States

Leon Ames Barney Davis

Elspeth Dudgeon Musicale Guest (uncredited)

Allan Lane Polo Player (uncredited)

Claire McDowell Struthers' Secretary (uncredited)

Murray Kinnell Alfred Curtis - The Broker

Harold Minjir Watson - Eddie's Valet (as Harold Minjur)

Barbara Leonard Pauline - The French Maid

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