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.

Comedy Drama

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)

Richard Tucker

(Lawrence - Partington's Partner)

Charles Coleman

(Emmy's Musicale Butler)

Jack Rutherford

(Wilton's Chauffeur (as John Rutherford))

Helena Phillips Evans

(Lily - the Wilton's Cook (as Helena Phillips))

Bill Elliott

(Polo Player (uncredited))

Charles E. Evans

(Furniture Mover (uncredited))

Lew Harvey

(Photographer at Train (uncredited))

Fred Howard

(Reporter at Train (uncredited))

Lillian Lawrence

(Musicale Guest (uncredited))

Kate Drain Lawson

(Musicale Guest (uncredited))

Nola Luxford

(Mary (uncredited))

Buddy Roosevelt

(Polo Player With Drinks (uncredited))

Ellinor Vanderveer

(Musicale Guest (uncredited))

Florence Wix

(Musicale Guest (uncredited))