Millionaire for a Day (1921)
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.
- Date of release
- 1921-07-18
- TMDB
- 10.0 / 10 (1)
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Wilfrid North, Aubrey M. Kennedy
Casting
- Arthur Guy Empey — Bobbie Walters
- Harry Burkhardt — Jim Warner
- Florence Martin — Dorothy Wright
- Templar Saxe — Gamble Mason
- William Eville — 'Surething' Silvers
- Denton Vane — A get-rich-quick engineer
- Maggie Weston — Bobby's housekeeper
- Evelyn Sherman — Dorothy's mother
- Chester Bishop — A Wall Street financier
- Emily Fitzroy — A newly rich woman of the West
- Louise Best — A newly rich woman of the West's daughter
- Harry Lee — The foreman
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