"If you've ever wanted to see what 1930s Hollywood thought 'cool' kids looked like, Newly Rich is your movie. It is worth watching today only if you have a soft spot for early talkies or if you find the idea of child stars joining a dock gang hilarious. People who hate 'precocious' kids in movies should stay far, far away from this one. It starts out in a small town with two widows who are basically the original stage moms. They take their kids to Hollywood because, of course, every kid in 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.
Virginia Hammond
Edna May Oliver
Billy West
Noah Young
Ben Hall
Frank Baker
Dannie Mac Grant
Eric Wilton
Ben Taggart
Bruce Line
Lynton Brent
Olaf Hytten
Lester Dorr
Louise Fazenda
Howard Goldstein
Wilson Benge
Ivan Linow
John Rogers
George Regas
Dell Henderson
Mitzi Green
Betty Jane Graham
Jackie Searl
Herbert Evans
Lawrence Grant
Agnes Brand Leahy, Edward E. Paramore Jr., Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Sinclair Lewis
United States
If you've ever wanted to see what 1930s Hollywood thought 'cool' kids looked like, Newly Rich is your movie. It is worth watching today only if you have a soft spot for early talkies or if you find the idea of child stars joining a dock gang hilarious. People who hate 'precocious' kids in movies should stay far, far aw...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Norman Taurog
Charley Chase
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