A Successful Calamity
A wealthy industrialist tests the loyalty of his spoiled children and selfish wife by pretending to be broke.
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"George Arliss is a Wall Street banker. He has just spent a year traveling abroad, negotiating international bond settlements on behalf of the nation. His reward is the thanks of the President. What he really wants is to get home to his family, his daughter Evalyn Knapp, his son William Janney and his beautiful second wife Mary Astor. He looks forward to making some deals in the daytime and basking in the bosom of his family at night. They're all delighted, but terribly busy with musicales and polo and redecorating his room to throw out his comfortable chair. Fortunately his valet, Grant W..."
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The play by Clare Kummer originally opened on Broadway at the Booth Theatre on 5 February 1917, and ran for 144 performances before closing for the summer (there was no air conditioning in those days). It then reopened on 10 October 1917 at the Plymouth Theatre. The opening night cast included Katharine Alexander, William Gillette, Estelle Winwood and Roland Young.
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A wealthy industrialist tests the loyalty of his spoiled children and selfish wife by pretending to be broke.