Success at Any Price was a 1934 sound film starring former silent film actress Colleen Moore

Colleen Moore

Colleen Moore was an American film actress, and one of the most fashionable stars of the silent film era.-Early life:...

 and Douglas Fairbanks Jr..

Cast

• Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - Joe Martin
• Genevieve Tobin
  Genevieve Tobin
  Genevieve Tobin was an American actress.The daughter of a vaudeville performer, Tobin made her film debut in 1910 in Uncle Tom's Cabin as Eva. She appeared in a few films as child, and formed a double act with her sister Vivian. Their brother, George, also had a brief acting career...
  
   - Agnes (Carter)
• Frank Morgan
  Frank Morgan
  Frank Morgan was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of the title character in the film The Wizard of Oz.-Early life:...
  
   - (Raymond) Merritt
• Colleen Moore
  Colleen Moore
  Colleen Moore was an American film actress, and one of the most fashionable stars of the silent film era.-Early life:...
  
   - Sarah [Griswold]
• Edward Everett Horton
  Edward Everett Horton
  Edward Everett Horton was an American character actor. He had a long career in film, theater, radio, television and voice work for animated cartoons. He is especially known for his work in the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.-Early life:Horton was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Isabella...
  
   - [Harry] Fisher
• Nydia Westman
  Nydia Westman
  Nydia Eileen Westman was an American actress and singer of stage, screen and television.-Career:Westman's career ranged from episodic appearances on TV sitcoms and uncredited bit roles in movies to appearances in groundbreaking films Nydia Eileen Westman (February 19, 1902 – May 23, 1970) was an...
  
   - Dinah
• Allen Vincent - Geoffrey Halliburton
• Henry Kolker
  Henry Kolker
  Henry Kolker was an American stage and film actor and director...
  
   - Hatfield

Story

Joe, an amoral capitalist and friend to Sarah Griswold, gets a job as a clerk in an advertising agency and starts to work his way to the top. He is fired, but Sarah intervenes on his bahalf and he manages to create an ad that earns him a promotion. He meets the mistress of his boss and decides he wants to win her from him. The company is in trouble, but Joe has invested wisely and sells out his boss to hs competitor. He abandons Sarah and propses to the mistress, who marries him. Joe becomes head of his agency, but because he neglects his new wife, she becomes the mistress of another man. He attempts suicide, but Sarah rescues him and nurses him back to health.

Background

Based on the play Success Story by John Howard Lawson, as produced by Group Theatre, Inc. (New York, 26 Sep 1932). Colleen's romantic interest in this film, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., was almost a decade younger than her (or maybe a decade older, depending on what her real birthdate was). However, nobody would have guessed. She retained a youthful but mature look into the 1930s. Superficially like many of Colleen's earlier roles (long-suffering woman whose beloved who has abandoned her), the story and her character hacked the old fairy-tale character as her earlier films, reflecting the grittier, more realistic feel Depression-era audiences wanted from films. This film was released less than a week after Social Register

Social Register (1934 film)

Social Register is a 1934 musical comedy-drama film starring Colleen Moore. The film re-united her with her old friend and one of the first directors to give her film career a start, Marshall Neilan. The film was based on the 1931 play of the same name by Anita Loos and John Emerson.-Story:Patsy...

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Footnotes

• Jeff Codori (2012), Colleen Moore; A Biography of the Silent Film Star, McFarland Publishing,(Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-4969-9, EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8899-5).

External Links

• Success at Any Price at IMDb.com
• http://furglamor.com/2010/07/04/furs-on-film-success-at-any-price/
• http://www.nndb.com/films/439/000267635/
• http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/112154/Success-at-Any-Price/overview