If I Had a Million
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| If I Had A Million | |
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| Produced by | Emanuel Cohen |
| Written by | Robert Hardy Andrews |
| Starring | Gary Cooper Charles Laughton George Raft W.C. Fields Richard Bennett |
| Music by | John Leipold |
| Cinematography | Harry Fischbeck |
| Release date(s) | 2 December 1932 |
| Running time | 88 min |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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If I Had a Million is an American film released by Paramount Studios in 1932 starring Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, George Raft, W. C. Fields, and Richard Bennett.
It is an anthology film made up of eight different episodes linked by a common theme: what happens to eight otherwise unconnected people when they're picked out of the phone book by a dying multimillionaire (Richard Bennett) and each endowed with a million dollars.
Each episode is directed by a different director, including Ernst Lubitsch, James Cruze, Norman Z. McLeod, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter and Norman Taurog, and scripted by many different writers, amongst whom Joseph L. Mankiewicz makes a large contribution. The cast represents a wide selection of the talent available at Paramount at the time and W.C. Fields, Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, George Raft, May Robson, Charles Ruggles, Jack Oakie, Frances Dee, and Gene Raymond are among the recipients. The film is based on a novel by Robert Andrews.
[edit] Cast
- Gary Cooper as Steve Gallagher
- Charles Laughton as Phineas V. Lambert
- George Raft as Eddie Jackson
- Jack Oakie as Pvt. Mulligan
- Richard Bennett as John Glidden
- Charles Ruggles (credited as Charlie Ruggles) as Henry Peabody
- Alison Skipworth as Emily la Rue
- W.C. Fields as Rollo La Rue
- Mary Boland as Mrs. Peabody
- Roscoe Karns as Pvt. O'Brien
- May Robson as Mrs. Mary Walker
The 1950s television series, The Millionaire, was based on a similar concept.
[edit] References
- Andrews, Robert Hardy. Windfall: A Novel About Ten Million Dollars. The John Day Co., New York, 1931
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