Newly Rich

Film

Newly Rich

United States
Director
Norman Taurog
Year
1931

Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sissy. For publicity, the rival families go to London to meet a middle European boy King. The three kids decide they need to escape their stifling lives and run away to the docks and join a gang.

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Directed by

Norman Taurog

Written by

Sinclair Lewis, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Edward E. Paramore Jr.