The Idle Rich (1929)

Directed by

William Churchill deMille

Genre

romantic comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 28m

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy family deals with the complications of a young woman entering their lives. The story follows their romantic entanglements and social adjustments.

light-heartedplayfuldatedromanticbreezywhimsicalcheerful

What happens

The Idle Rich is a 1929 American Pre-Code early sound comedy film produced and released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer and directed by William C. deMille. It is based on the Broadway play White Collars by Edith Ellis, which had played at the Egan Theater in Los Angeles in 1924 before moving to the Cort Theatre in New York. The film is extant, and was released on DVD in 2012 from WarnerArchive Collection. This film was remade in 1938 as Rich Man, Poor Girl with Robert Young and Ruth Hussey. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• This Thing Called Love (1929)
• The Awful Truth (1929)
• Wise Girls (1929)
• The Fall of Eve (1929)
• Sunny Side Up (1929)
• Modern Love (1929)
• The Exalted Flapper (1929)
• Rich People (1929)