Millionaire for a Day (1921)
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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