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Prosperity

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1hr 27min
Genres:
Comedy,Drama
Release:
1932
Director:
Sam Wood
Starring:
Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Anita Page  ...more
Synopsis: Maggie Warren (Marie Dressler) is the matriarch of a banking family who has run the Warren Bank for years, until she turns it over to her son John (Norman Foster) to run, following his marriage to Helen (Anita Page). Maggie and Helen's mother Lizzie (Polly Moran) don't really get along that well, but they tolerate each other -- barely -- for the sake of the children and grandchildren. Then comes the stock market crash, and the Great Depression, and the wave of bank failures -- and a rumor that starts ... Full Synopsis
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Bruce Eder, AMG Review
Prosperity is a strange if well-intentioned movie. Some moments of it are almost Capra-esque, in its story about a family trying to keep the bank they own afloat, and save its depositors' assets -- in that sense, it resembles Frank Capra's American Madness, released three months earlier that same year. But neither the screenplay, co-authored by Sylvia Thalberg (sister of MGM production chief Irving ... Full Review
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Marie Dressler
Maggie Warren
Polly Moran
Lizzie Praskins
Anita Page
Helen Praskins
Norman Foster
John Warren
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