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A Successful Calamity

A Successful Calamity

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 17, 1932

Runtime

1h 12m

Genres

Comedy, Drama

User Score

52%

Original Title

A Successful Calamity

Production Companies

The Vitaphone Corporation, Warner Bros. Pictures

Director

John G. Adolfi

Description

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.