A Successful Calamity

Overview

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.

Directed by John G. Adolfi

Top cast

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

Eula Guy

Jane - the Cook's Helper

Virginia Hammond

Mrs. Langstreet

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