The Idle Rich
Wealth and position clash with poverty in a sterling talking feature drama made from the stage success, "White Collars"!
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- Comedy
Overview
Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Her family, part of "the great middle class" (as blowhard nephew Henry keeps reminding us), is happy for Joan, but reluctant to take charity from Will. He moves in with them, and they keep resisting, until one day he takes drastic action.
Keywords
- marriage
- middle class
- class distinction
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 15, 1929
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Cast
- Kenneth Gibson,James Neill,Edythe Chapman,Paul Kruger,Leila Hyams,Bessie Love,Robert Ober,Conrad Nagel
- Director
- William C. deMille
- Writer
- Clara Beranger,Edgar Franklin
- Cinematography
- Leonard Smith
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0020014