A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all the money. But the humbled (and impoverished) Fonda finds true love in the arms of Pat Paterson, who cares nothing for material things.


Spendthrift (1936)
He ran a fortune into a shoestring in his hunt for romance!
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Henry Fonda
Townsend Middleton

Pat Paterson
Valerie 'Boots' O'Connell

Mary Brian
Sally Barnaby

George Barbier
Uncle Morton Middleton

Edward Brophy
Bill McGuire

Richard Carle
Popsy

Spencer Charters
Col. Barnaby

June Brewster
Topsy Martin

Halliwell Hobbes
Beuhl - the Butler