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If I Had A Million (1932) was a Comedy - Drama Film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and Lothar Mendes and produced by Louis D. Lighton, Emanuel Cohen and Benjamin Glazer.

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"If I Had a Million," or A Taste of Money

By David on Sep 4, 2012 From The Man on the Flying Trapeze

In the 1932 film "If I Had a Million," a cantankerous millionaire (Richard Bennett, the real-life father of actresses Constance and Joan Bennett) decides to stiff his greedy relatives and leave a million dollars to eight people picked at random from the city directory. It was a big year for "all-st... Read full article


"If I Had a Million," or A Taste of Money

By David on Sep 4, 2012 From The Man on the Flying Trapeze

In the 1932 film "If I Had a Million," a cantankerous millionaire (Richard Bennett, the real-life father of actresses Constance and Joan Bennett) decides to stiff his greedy relatives and leave a million dollars to eight people picked at random from the city directory. It was a big year for "all-st... Read full article


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Mrs. Peabody: Now, Henry, I don't want to reproach you, but I want you to feel like a dirty little rat, Sweetheart.


Mrs. Mary Walker: There ain't any jail of steel or stone that can hold a body prisoner as tight as one built of old age... and lack of money.


Agnes: I'd like nothing better than to knock your ears down into your neck.
Rollo La Rue: I suppose you forget the day I busted you in the nose in Cincinnatah!


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Facts about

$1,000,000 in 1932 had the same purchasing power as $15,700,000 in 2009.
Production dates for each segment are as follows: "Road Hogs" 9 September 1932-12 September 1932; "Violet" 14 September 1932-15 September 1932; "Death Cell" mid-September 1932; "The Forger" late September 1932; "Grandma" 30 September 1932-5 October 1932; "China Shop" 4 October 1932-10 October 1932; "The Three Marines" 14 October 1932-17 October 1932; and "Prologue" 14 October 1932-25 October 1932.
Three sequences intended for the movie were not in the final print: "The Pheeneys" with Cary Grant and Miriam Hopkins, "The Man Who Drops Dead" by Oliver H.P. Garrett, directed by Thornton Freeland and Clive Brook, and "The Randall Marshalls" with Sylvia Sidney, Carole Lombard and Fredric March, and directed by Lothar Mendes. It is not known if the first 2 segments were filmed and dropped or simply not filmed. The last sequence was partially filmed, but dropped because March would not participate in retakes without salary.
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