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The Idle Rich

192980 minUnited States
ComedyRomance
Video edition
Wikimedia Commons
Original language
English
This copy runs
79:54
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · arkiver@archive.org · Public domain

Synopsis

A wealthy businessman marries his secretary and tries to fit into her family's modest home. His offers of money and opportunities meet resistance, exposing how pride and class assumptions complicate his good intentions.

Cast

DirectorsWilliam C. deMille

Inspirations

The film adapts Edith Ellis's play White Collars. Domestic space brings the family's principles and the newcomer's habits into immediate, practical conflict.

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