New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford

1931 film

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New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
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Directed by	Sam Wood
Written by	Charles MacArthur (adaptation)
Based on	"The Wallingford Stories" by George Randolph Chester
Produced by	Harry Rapf
Starring	William Haines Jimmy Durante
Cinematography	Oliver T. Marsh
Edited by	Frank Sullivan
Production company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	October 3, 1931 (1931-10-03)
Running time	87-96 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford is a 1931 American pre-Code crime / romantic comedy film directed by Sam Wood and starring William Haines as a con artist and Jimmy Durante as his pickpocket buddy. The film is based on a series of stories by George Randolph Chester published in Cosmopolitan.

Plot

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Cast

William Haines as Jimmy Wallingford
Jimmy Durante as Clarence 'Schnozzle'
Ernest Torrence as Blackie Daw
Leila Hyams as Dorothy Layton
Guy Kibbee as Police Sergeant McGonigal
Hale Hamilton as Charles Harper
Robert McWade as Horace Tuttle
Clara Blandick as Mrs Maggie Layton
Walter Walker as Frank Layton
Alfred Allen as Ship's Captain (uncredited)
Henry Armetta as Henry, a Barber (uncredited)
Lucy Beaumont as Mrs. Dalrymple, a Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
Robert Bolder as Minor Role (uncredited)
Sidney Bracey as Joe the Waiter (uncredited)
Allan Cavan as Hotel Cashier (uncredited)
Sydney Jarvis as Chief of Police Morgan (uncredited)
Tom Kennedy as Truck Driver (uncredited)
Edwin Maxwell as Adam Carver the Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Charles R. Moore as Bootblack (uncredited)
William H. O'Brien as Private Dining Room Waiter (uncredited)
Joe Sawyer as Willis the Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)
Rolfe Sedan as Barber (uncredited)
Phillips Smalley as Stockholder (uncredited)

Reception

Mordaunt Hall wrote in The New York Times that "the film affords many a good laugh and most of the ideas are developed quite neatly" and that Haines' performance was "emphatically satisfactory."

References

Mordaunt Hall (October 10, 1931). "The Screen; An Artful Swindler. The Divorce Mill. Espionage and Romance". The New York Times.

External links

v t e Charles MacArthur
Plays written	Lulu Belle (1926) The Front Page (1928) Twentieth Century (1932) Jumbo (193 Ladies and Gentlemen (1939)
Family	Helen Hayes (second wife) James MacArthur (son) John D. MacArthur (brother) J. Roderick MacArthur (nephew)

v t e Films directed by Sam Wood
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Films directed by Sam Wood

Double Speed (1920)
Excuse My Dust (1920)
The Dancin' Fool (1920)
Sick Abed (1920)
What's Your Hurry? (1920)
A City Sparrow (1920)
Her Beloved Villain (1920)
Her First Elopement (1920)
The Snob (1921)
The Outside Woman (1921)
Peck's Bad Boy (1921)
The Great Moment (1921)
Under the Lash (1921)
Don't Tell Everything (1922)
Her Husband's Trademark (1922)
Her Gilded Cage (1922)
Beyond the Rocks (1922)
The Impossible Mrs. Bellew (1922)
My American Wife (1922)
Prodigal Daughters (1923)
Bluebeard's 8th Wife (1923)
His Children's Children (1923)
The Next Corner (1924)
Bluff (1924)
The Female (1924)
The Mine with the Iron Door (1924)
The Re-Creation of Brian Kent (1925)
Fascinating Youth (1926)
One Minute to Play (1926)
Rookies (1927)
A Racing Romeo (1927)
The Fair Co-Ed (1927)
The Latest from Paris (1928)
Telling the World (1928)
So This Is College (1929)
It's a Great Life (1929)
They Learned About Women (1930)
The Girl Said No (1930)
The Sins of the Children (1930)
Way for a Sailor (1930)
Paid (1930)
A Tailor Made Man (1931)
The Man in Possession (1931)
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford (1931)
Huddle (1932)
Prosperity (1932)
The Barbarian (1933)
Hold Your Man (1933)
Christopher Bean (1933)
The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)
Stamboul Quest (1934)
Let 'Em Have It (1935)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Whipsaw (1935)
The Unguarded Hour (1936)
A Day at the Races (1937)
Madame X (1937)
Navy Blue and Gold (1937)
Lord Jeff (1938)
Stablemates (1938)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Raffles (1939)
Our Town (1940)
Rangers of Fortune (1940)
Kitty Foyle (1940)
The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
Kings Row (1942)
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Casanova Brown (1944)
Guest Wife (1945)
Saratoga Trunk (1945)
Heartbeat (1946)
Ivy (1947)
Command Decision (1948)
The Stratton Story (1949)
Ambush (1950)

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