Millionaire for a Day (1921)
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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.
- Release date
- July 18, 1921
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Arthur Guy Empey as Bobbie Walters
- Harry Burkhardt as Jim Warner
- Florence Martin as Dorothy Wright
- Templar Saxe as Gamble Mason
- William Eville as 'Surething' Silvers
- Denton Vane as A get-rich-quick engineer
- Maggie Weston as Bobby's housekeeper
- Evelyn Sherman as Dorothy's mother
- Chester Bishop as A Wall Street financier
- Emily Fitzroy as A newly rich woman of the West
Crew
- Aubrey M. Kennedy · Director
- Wilfrid North · Director
- Arthur Guy Empey · Writer
- William Addison Lathrop · Writer
- Arthur Guy Empey · Producer
- James Fleming · Cinematographer