Acting
Dressler and Moran's volcanic chemistry — they truly despise each other on screen.
Production
Authentic bank-run panic that hits different post-2008.
Writing
Sharper one-liners than most comedies ninety years later.
Director
Sam Wood
Marie Dressler
Maggie Warren
Polly Moran
Lizzie Praskins
Anita Page
Helen Praskins Warren
Norman Foster
John Warren
John Miljan
Holland
Jacquie Lyn
Cissy Warren
Jerry Tucker
Buster Warren
Charles Giblyn
Mayor
Frank Darien
Ezra Higgins
Henry Armetta
Henry a Barber
John Roche
Holland's Cohort Knapp
Edward Brophy
Ice Cream Salesman (uncredited)
Claire Du Brey
Bank Depositor Spreading Rumor (uncredited)
Herbert Prior
George the Dentist (uncredited)
Walter Walker
Maggie's Husband in Photo (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Marie Dressler's final film before her death at 65; she was the biggest box office draw in America in 1932.
The 'prosperity' of the title is bitter irony — released months before FDR's inauguration, it captures the exact moment Americans stopped believing in the market.
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