Millionaire for a Day (1921)

10.0/10 0 min Comedy

Overview

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.

Cast

Arthur Guy Empey

Bobbie Walters

Harry Burkhardt

Jim Warner

Florence Martin

Dorothy Wright

Templar Saxe

Gamble Mason

Denton Vane

A get-rich-quick engineer

Evelyn Sherman

Dorothy's mother

Emily Fitzroy

A newly rich woman of the West

Harry Warren

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