Independent Films, Film Profiles

If I Had a Million

If I Had a Million (1932) is a Paramount Studios anthology motion picture starring Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, George Raft, W. C. Fields, and Richard Bennett.Each movie is directed by a different directors, including Ernst Lubitsch, James Cruze, Norman Z. McLeod, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter and Norman Taurog, and the screenplays scripted by many different writers, among whom Joseph L. Mankiewicz makes a large contribution.The cast represents a wide selection of the talent available at Paramount at the time and W. C. Fields, Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, George Raft, May Robson, Charles Ruggles, Jack Oakie, Frances Dee, and Gene Raymond are among the recipients.If I Had a Million is based on a novel by Robert Andrews.The 1950s television series, The Millionaire, was based on a similar concept.The stories tell of what happens to eight otherwise unconnected people when they are picked out of the phone book by a dying multimillionaire (Richard Bennett) and each endowed with a million dollars.