It Pays to Advertise!

1936•1h 16m

Comedy

Mr. Miller is the CEO of a big soap company whose son Henry like to spend his father's money but isn't interesting in working. Henry's laziness makes Mr. Miller upset and stressed out, so he assigns his young secretary (who the son also is in love with) to figure out a way to make Henry work and she will get 10,000 crowns ($1000). But things doesn't really to turn out the way Mr. Miller imagined.

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Production

Fribergs Filmbyrå AB

Language

Status

Released

Release Date

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Region US · Lang EN

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Cast

Thor Modéen

Miller

Håkan Westergren

Henry Miller

Åke Söderblom

Ambrosius Bergman

Birgit Tengroth

Mary Lind, secretary

Valdemar Dalquist

Oskar Fagerberg

Anders Henrikson

Adolf Fagerberg

Eric Abrahamsson

Karlsson

Ruth Stevens

Eva Zander

Hjördis Petterson

Eric Gustafson

Ka Nerell

Sven-Eric Gamble

Arnold Sjöstrand

Hartwig Fock

Ingrid Luterkort

Margit Tirkkonen

Sonja Claesson

Jullan Jonsson

Oscar Åberg

Jean Claesson

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