If I Had a Million
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| If I Had A Million | |
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| Directed by | Multiple directors[1] |
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| Produced by | Emanuel Cohen |
| Written by | Robert Hardy Andrews (story) multiple writers[2] |
| Starring | Gary Cooper Charles Laughton George Raft W. C. Fields Richard Bennett |
| Music by | John Leipold |
| Cinematography | Harry Fischbeck Charles Edgar Schoenbaum Gilbert Warrenton Alvin Wyckoff (all uncredited) |
| Editing by | LeRoy Stone |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | December 2, 1932 |
| Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
If I Had a Million (1932) is a Paramount Studios anthology motion picture starring Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, George Raft, W. C. Fields, and Richard Bennett.
Each movie is directed by a different directors, including Ernst Lubitsch, James Cruze, Norman Z. McLeod, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter and Norman Taurog, and the screenplays scripted by many different writers, among 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.
If I Had a Million is based on a novel by Robert Andrews.[3]
The 1950s television series, The Millionaire, was based on a similar concept.
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[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 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
[edit] Synopsis
The stories tell of what happens to eight otherwise unconnected people when they are picked out of the phone book by a dying multimillionaire (Richard Bennett) and each endowed with a million dollars.
[edit] Notes
- ^ James Cruze directed the segment Death Cell; H. Bruce Humberstone directed the segment The Forger; Ernst Lubitsch directed the segment The Clerk; Norman Z. McLeod directed the segments China Shop and Road Hogs; Stephen Roberts directed the segments Violet and Grandma; William A. Seiter directed the segment The Three Marines; Norman Taurog directed the segments Prologue and Epilogue; also Lothar Mendes did uncredited direction.
- ^ Credited writers were: Claude Binyon, Whitney Bolton, Malcolm Stuart Boylan, John Bright, Sidney Buchman, Lester Cole, Isabel Dawn, Boyce DeGaw, Oliver H.P. Garrett, Harvey Gates, Grover Jones, Ernst Lubitsch, Lawton Mackall, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, William Slavens McNutt and Robert Sparks. Uncredited writers include Harvey Gates.
- ^ Andrews, Robert Hardy. Windfall: A Novel About Ten Million Dollars. The John Day Co., New York, 1931
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