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Millionaire for a Day

Jul 18, 1921
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Comedy

PLOT

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.

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CAST

Arthur Guy Empey
Bobbie Walters
Harry Burkhardt
Jim Warner
Florence Martin
Dorothy Wright
Templar Saxe
Gamble Mason
William Eville
'Surething' Silvers
Denton Vane
A get-rich-quick engineer
Maggie Weston
Bobby's housekeeper
Evelyn Sherman
Dorothy's mother
Directed by Wilfrid North

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Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
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Production
Guy Empey Productions
Country
US
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