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Millionaire for a Day (1921)
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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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.
Rating:NR
Genre:Comedy
Written By:William Addison Lathrop
In Theaters:7/18/1921
Box Office:
Runtime:
Studio:Guy Empey Productions
Cast
Wilfrid North, Aubrey M. Kennedy
Director
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
Chester Bishop
A Wall Street financier
Emily Fitzroy
A newly rich woman of the West
Louise Best
A newly rich woman of the West's daughter
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