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Millionaire for a Day (1921)
Directed by Aubrey M. Kennedy, Wilfrid North
Comedy
Bobbie Walters, a cab driver in a Midwest city who is trying to save enough money to marry his sweetheart, Dorothy Wright, an attendant at the cigar and newspaper counter of a large hotel, is able to amass $15,000. He acts like a millionaire and soon is fleeced of the money by two Wall Street swindlers. Broke, Bobbie is forced to work as a bellboy at Dorothy's hotel. After a series of struggles and adventures, Bobby wins a fortune in the oil fields of Louisiana, despite the efforts of his rivals, who dynamite his oil derricks.
Cast
Arthur Guy Empey
Bobbie Walters
Harry Burkhardt
Jim Warner
Florence Martin
Dorothy Wright
Templar Saxe
Gamble Mason
W
William Eville
'Surething' Silvers
Denton Vane
A get-rich-quick engineer
M
Maggie Weston
Bobby's housekeeper
Evelyn Sherman
Dorothy's mother
C
Chester Bishop
A Wall Street financier
Emily Fitzroy
A newly rich woman of the West
L
Louise Best
A newly rich woman of the West's daughter
H
Harry Lee
The foreman
Crew
- Director
- Aubrey M. Kennedy, Wilfrid North
- Writer
- William Addison Lathrop
- Director of Photography
- James Fleming
- Producer
- Arthur Guy Empey
Details
- Release date
- 1921-07-18
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Guy Empey Productions