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Prosperity (film)

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'Prosperity' is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy-drama film starring Marie Dressler and Polly Moran. The two leading actresses play longtime matriarchal ladies comically sparring off each other, and trying to control their intertwined lives.

Plot



Maggie Warren (Dressler) inherited a family bank during the Depression and Lizzie Praskins (Moran) is one of her biggest depositors. Maggies son John is engaged to Lizzies's daughter Helen. All kinds of farces happen when the would-be mothers-in-law battle for setting the wedding's protocol including their different preferences of choosing the pastor to perform the ceremony.

As the story goes on, Lizzie has a panic attack based on rumors about the bank going to belly-up. She hysterically withdraws all her money causing all other customers in the bank to panic and they in return take out their money. The Warren family bank is forced to close. Maggies naive son gets swindled out of his mothers bonds. As farces go, at the end the swindlers are caught and Maggies matriarchal resourcefulness with her wised-up son gets the bank solvent again, and the two matriarchal families are bonded with mirthful resolutions.

[https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9504E7D61E31E333A25755C2A9679D946394D6CF New York Times][http://www.answers.com/topic/prosperity-film-1 review review from answer.com][https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=110&dat=19321212&id=wAkJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kTsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6565,5628821 Ludington Daily News (Dec 12 1932)]

Cast



* Marie Dressler as Maggie Warren

* Polly Moran as Lizzie Praskins

* Anita Page as Helen Praskin

* Norman Foster as John Warren

* Jacquie Lyn as Cissy

* Jerry Tucker as Buster

* Charles Giblyn as Mayor

* Frank Darien as Ezra Higgins

* Henry Holland as John Roche

Box office



According to MGM records the film earned $1,166,000 in the US and Canada and $348,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $378,000.

References




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