A Successful Calamity (1932)

Name: A Successful Calamity
Director: John G. Adolfi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1932-09-17
Duration: 1 h 12 min
Cast: George Arliss, Mary Astor, Evalyn Knapp, Grant Mitchell

Comedy Drama

Director: John G. Adolfi

Cast: George Arliss, Mary Astor, Evalyn Knapp, Grant Mitchell

Runtime72 min

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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.

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Fans of classic Hollywood comedies will enjoy the witty, nuanced performance of George Arliss as the elderly millionaire who stages a faux bankruptcy to test his self-absorbed family in the 1932 film A Successful Calamity, directed by John G. Adolfi.

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A Successful Calamity is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film starring George Arliss, supported by Mary Astor and Evalyn Knapp, and directed by John G. Adolfi. Based on the 1917 play A Successful Calamity by Clare Kummer, the film is about an elderly millionaire who must deal with his selfish, young second wife and a pair of spoiled, grown children.