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New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
1931 film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford is a 1931 American pre-Code crime / romantic comedy film directed by Sam Wood and starring William Haines as a con artist and Jimmy Durante as his pickpocket buddy. The film is based on a series of stories by George Randolph Chester published in Cosmopolitan.
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Plot
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Cast
- William Haines as Jimmy Wallingford
- Jimmy Durante as Clarence 'Schnozzle'
- Ernest Torrence as Blackie Daw
- Leila Hyams as Dorothy Layton
- Guy Kibbee as Police Sergeant McGonigal
- Hale Hamilton as Charles Harper
- Robert McWade as Horace Tuttle
- Clara Blandick as Mrs Maggie Layton
- Walter Walker as Frank Layton
- Alfred Allen as Ship's Captain (uncredited)
- Henry Armetta as Henry, a Barber (uncredited)
- Lucy Beaumont as Mrs. Dalrymple, a Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
- Robert Bolder as Minor Role (uncredited)
- Sidney Bracey as Joe the Waiter (uncredited)
- Allan Cavan as Hotel Cashier (uncredited)
- Sydney Jarvis as Chief of Police Morgan (uncredited)
- Tom Kennedy as Truck Driver (uncredited)
- Edwin Maxwell as Adam Carver the Hotel Manager (uncredited)
- Charles R. Moore as Bootblack (uncredited)
- William H. O'Brien as Private Dining Room Waiter (uncredited)
- Joe Sawyer as Willis the Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)
- Rolfe Sedan as Barber (uncredited)
- Phillips Smalley as Stockholder (uncredited)
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Reception
Mordaunt Hall wrote in The New York Times that "the film affords many a good laugh and most of the ideas are developed quite neatly" and that Haines' performance was "emphatically satisfactory."[1]
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