FIFTEEN STARS LEAD CAST OF “IF I HAD A MILLION."

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 July 1933, Page 3

FIFTEEN STARS LEAD CAST OF “IF I HAD A MILLION."

Fifteen stars are cast together in “If I Had a Million, ” a Paramount film drama coming attraction at the Regent Theatre. Together they make the most important array of cinema talent which has ever been seen in a single production. The stars are Gary Cooper, George Raft, Wynne Gibson, Charles Laughton, Jack Oakie, Frances Dee, Charlie Ruggles, Alison Skipworth, W. C. Fields, Mary Boland, Roscoe Karns, 'May Robson, Gene Raymond, Lucien Littlefield and Richard Bennett. They play in the story of an eccentric old millionaire, who distributes his fortujie among eight persons whose names he chooses at random from a telephone directory. One of the beneficiaries is an ex-vaudeville actress; another, a lady of dubious past, a third, a rowdy marine; another a young husband; another, an abused clerk in a china shop; another, a condemned murderer only a few hours from the electric chair; another an inhabitant of an old ladies’ home; another, a forger being sought by the police; and the last, an underdog in an office. To each, sudden wealth means something else. Tragedy and comedy follow in the wake of the gifts; its results are sometimes ironic, sometimes romantic. Each chapter of “If I Had a Million” has a different director, and each shows the effect on a person or group, of the sudden gift of 1,000,000 dollars from an eccentric millionaire. Thirty internationally famous authors prepared the scenario, each chapter of which received the attention of a different group. These chapters have been welded into a coherent whole, presentation of which on the screen utilised practically every player at the Paramount studio. Bennett, who plays the millionaire, has the only role which runs through the entire production.