- A wealthy industrialist tests the loyalty of his spoiled children and selfish wife by pretending to be broke.
- 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 fortune-hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, polo coach Larry Rivers; Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.—Robert
- A family pulls together to help a member in financial trouble.
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By what name was A Successful Calamity (1932) officially released in Canada in English?
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