A New Leaf (1971), The Taming of the Shrew (1967), Period of Adjustment (1962), Hands Across the Table (1935), Dil Dhadakne Do (2015), Anna Lucasta (1958), The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), Woman of Straw (1964) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Marrying For Money movies.
Storyline: Charlie talks wealthy farmer's daughter Tillie into eloping with him (and taking her father's money). In the city Tillie gets drunk and lands in jail while Charlie runs off with her money and his old girlfriend Mabel. Later Charlie reads that Tillie (now working as a waitress) has inherited the estate of her multi-millionaire uncle. Charlie dumps Mabel and talks Tillie into moving into her uncle's villa, and Mabel arranges to become a housemaid there. The uncle (never really dead) returns and summons the police to have them all thrown out.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: heiress, father, uncle, con artist, girlfriend, police officer, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees in Auckland. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her own, despite his angry objections. Eddie is the Maori she takes as her lover. Nina works at a restaurant where Eddie cooks. For a price, she agrees to marry a Chinese, another restaurant employee, so that he (and his Chinese wife) can establish permanent residency. The money gives her the independence she needs to leave her parents' house and move in with Eddie. Complications arise when Eddie realizes the depth of her father's fury and the strength of Nina's family ties.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: father, daughter, lover, cook, sister, maori, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is love with a poor dancer, but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: singer, dancer, nightclub employee, louis xv, madame du barry, charming, new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Richard Field is a successful businessman who has become romantically involved with younger employee Diane Lovering, but he is unable to persuade his grasping wife to grant him a divorce out of his dysfunctional marriage. Diane meets dashing rancher Mike Bradley through his wise-cracking pal Johnnie on a South American ocean voyage, and they begin a shipboard romance that carries over to his Argentinian ranch. Diane decides to return to New York and tell Richard in person that she intends to marry Mike Bradley. When Diane gets there Richard surprises her with a wedding ring and the morning newspaper citing Mrs. Field is in Reno obtaining a divorce. Richard had to agree not only to a large monetary settlement but was forbidden to see his sons. Diane didn't have the heart to tell Richard about Mike and decides to marry him. Diane writes a "Dear John letter" to Mike explaining a calculated mercenary decision that she prefers the position and financial status that Field's can offer her over the love that Mike can. However, is she meant to be Mrs. Field or Mrs. Bradley?—duke1029@aol.com
Plot Keywords: wealthy man, secretary, rancher, wife, friend, melodramatic, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing development. He proposes and Dodie accepts. Dodie next meets Pete, who she thinks is rich, but she soon finds out that he is just a boat mechanic. They have fun on their date and Pete proposes and Dodie accepts. Then Dodie meets Neil Patterson who is rich. They go to Mexico on his yacht and have fun on their date. Neil proposes and Dodie accepts. Now she has to choose.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: pretty woman, boyfriend, blue-collar worker, millionaire, fiancé, best friend, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mimi has tried everything to become the bride to Alan, but he chooses Elizabeth instead. The ironic part is that Mimi's mother writes romance novels and neither one has had any luck with men. So Mimi decides to get a job as an illustrator at the New York Chronicle where her friend Jimmy works. When Alan and Liz return from their honeymoon, Alan wants to keep Mimi at his side, and Mimi has no objections - in the beginning.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: young woman, heiress, playboy, mother, illustrator, friend, airy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jason Kelly, the grandson of Dick Kelly, loses his grandmother about two weeks before his wedding to Meredith. He tries to assist his grandfather and console him for his loss, but was rather tricked into a spring break road trip; chasing youth once again. with the help of Shadia and Lenore, the two men go on an adventure they'll never forget.
Plot Keywords: lawyer, boss, daughter, grandfather, college student, fiancé, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Max Clemington (Robert Cummings) and his father are both looking to marry wealthy women. The task would be far easier if either one of them had any money of their own. Max decides on Martha Gray (Ruth Hussey), but Martha says no when he says that he is poor as she admits she is also. So she accepts the proposal of Sir George Kelvin (Reginald Owen), but changes her mind by the next day. When Florian Clemington (Nigel Bruce) tries to win money gambling for Max's wedding, he loses a bundle. When Max finds out about the debt, he decides to marry the wealthy Lady Joan Culver (Dame Judith Anderson) to keep Florian out of jail. But Max is not in love with Lady Joan.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: father, son, swindler, heiress, widow, wealthy man, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Jack and Jerry are not playing professional baseball with the Blue Sox, they are packing them in on the Vaudeville circuit. Jack is engaged to Mary, but a gold digger named Daisy has worked her way into his confidence. When Mary sees Jack and Daisy together, she leaves Jack and Jack marries Daisy the next day. When Daisy decides that she wants into the Vaudeville act, she has Jack dump both Jerry and his baseball contract. But Jack soon finds that - no act - means no money - means no Daisy.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: baseball player, vaudevillian, best friend, gold digger, baseball manager, fiancée, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dhaneshwar Pitamber, has four daughters. All the four daughters are not ready to marry, each one having their own reason. The daughters always play mischievous tricks on the one coming with a proposal of marriage, and their gang leader is the youngest daughter Durga. Kader Khan is so desperate to get his daughters married that he is ready to give a dowry of five crores to each son-in-law. Raja and Kanahaiya are small time con men at the airport. Raju Patel is an NRI from America who comes to India to get married to one of the daughters of Dhaneshwar. Raja and Dhaneshwar mistake Raja as Raju Patel and take him home. In order to get five crores Raja solves the problems of the daughters and makes them ready for getting married. How Raja solves the daughter's problems forms the crux of the story. Ashish Vidyarthi as a don obsessed in becoming a villain in films, plays a key character in the whole story.—gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: con man, wealthy girl, sister, amusing, hilarious, hysterical, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dolly (Sonam Kapoor) seems like the perfect bride to go with the perfect family, maybe too perfect as her unsuspecting grooms from all sorts of ethnic and religious backgrounds find out the hard way that she's a serial con artist who makes away with their wealth after wedding them. Its upto police inspector Robin (Pulkit Samrat) and two disgruntled grooms Sonu (Rajkumar Rao) and Manjot (Varun Sharma) to catch the group of thieves in the act.
Plot Keywords: young woman, bride, groom, con artist, police officer, victim, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Eve has married the man of her dreams but when they return to live in the house willed to him by his first wife who died under horrific circumstances, it becomes a waking nightmare as Eve falls into a spiral of suspicion and madness.
Plot Keywords: businessman, daughter, caregiver, husband, suspenseful, emotional, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Janie (Ginger Rogers) is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love. Three men are after her hand in marriage: car salesman Tom (George Murphy), Chicago millionaire Dick (Alan Marshal) and auto mechanic Harry (Burgess Meredith). But Janie just can't seem to make up her mind between them. While fantasizing about her futures with each of the men, Janie spends her time desperately trying to juggle between them until she can make her decision.
Plot Keywords: telephone operator, mechanic, car dealer, millionaire, boyfriend, playful, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Although Romano (Marcello Mastroianni) has no personal wealth, his wife, Elisa (Silvana Mangano), has more than enough money to support him, and this situation allows him to indulge in the finer things of life. While enjoying a solo spa getaway, he meets Anna (Elena Safonova) and becomes so smitten with her that he decides to follow her home to Russia, where he swears his love and promises to return. Upon reuniting with Elisa, however, Romano suddenly finds himself torn between the two women.
Plot Keywords: husband, young woman, mistress, wife, government official, endearing, amusing ...
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