Success at Any Price

Success at Any Price

Film still of Colleen Moore and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. from Success at Any Price.
Directed by J. Walter Ruben
Produced by Merian C. Cooper (executive producer)
Written by John Howard Lawson
Howard J. Green
Starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Genevieve Tobin
Frank Morgan
Colleen Moore
Music by Max Steiner
Edited by Jack Hively
Production
company
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Release dates
  • May 3, 1934 (1934-05-03)

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Country United States
Language English

Success at Any Price is a 1934 sound film starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Genevieve Tobin, Frank Morgan and silent film star Colleen Moore. It is based on the 1932 play Success Story by John Howard Lawson.

Plot

Joe, an amoral capitalist and boyfriend of Sarah Griswold, gets a job as a clerk in a New York City advertising agency and starts to work his way to the top. He is fired, but Sarah intervenes on his behalf and he manages to create an ad that earns him a promotion. He meets the mistress of his boss and decides he wants to win her from him. The company is in trouble, but Joe has invested wisely and sells out his boss to his competitor. He abandons Sarah and proposes to the mistress, who marries him. Joe becomes head of his agency, but because he neglects his new wife, she becomes the mistress of another man. He attempts suicide, but Sarah rescues him and nurses him back to health.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ "Success At Any Price: Technical Details". theiapolis.com. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Success Story". New York Times. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
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