Prosperity (1932) 720p Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Anita Page, Norman Foster
Longtime friends become feuding mothersinlaw when their children marry. Maggie Warren (Marie Dressler) retires as head of the family bank, ceding her longheld position to her son, John (Norman Foster). John marries Helen (Anita Page), and, despite the antipathy between their mothers, the two live together happily. But when Helen s mother, Lizzie (Polly Moran), accidentally prompts a run on the bank, Maggie learns that John blew their emergency bonds on a getrichquick scam. Hoping to save the bank, Maggie sets out on a search for the con men who duped her son.
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