''Success at Any Price'' is a 1934 sound film starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Genevieve Tobin,

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and silent film star Colleen Moore. It is based on the 1932 play '' Success Story'' by John Howard Lawson.

Plot

Joe, an amoral capitalist and boyfriend of Sarah Griswold, gets a job as a clerk in a

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advertising agency and starts to work his way to the top. He is fired, but Sarah intervenes on his behalf and he manages to create an ad that earns him a promotion. He meets the mistress of his boss and decides to woo the mistress away. The company is in trouble, but Joe has invested wisely and sells out his boss to his competitor. He abandons Sarah and proposes to the mistress, who marries him. Joe becomes head of his agency, but because he neglects his new wife, she becomes the mistress of another man. He attempts suicide, but Sarah rescues him and nurses him back to health.

Cast

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr., (December 9, 1909 – May 7, 2000) was an American actor, producer and decorated naval officer of World War II. He is best known for starring in such films as ''The Prisoner of Zenda'' (1937), '' Gunga Din'' (1939) ...

as Joe Martin * Genevieve Tobin as Agnes

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Merritt * Colleen Moore as Sarah riswold*

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Fisher *

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as Dinah *

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as Hatfield *

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as Geoffrey Halliburton

References

Bibliography

* Jeff Codori (2012), ''Colleen Moore; A Biography of the Silent Film Star''
McFarland Publishing
(Print , EBook ).

External links

* * * * {{J. Walter Ruben 1934 films 1934 drama films American business films American drama films American black-and-white films Films about businesspeople American films based on plays Films directed by J. Walter Ruben Films set in New York City RKO Pictures films 1930s English-language films 1930s American films