Sudden Money is a 1939 American comedy film directed by Nick Grinde, written by Lewis R. Foster, and starring Charlie Ruggles, Marjorie Rambeau, Charley Grapewin, Broderick Crawford, Billy Lee and Evelyn Keyes.
Particularly head of the family Sweeney, a frustrated drummer who decides to reassemble his old college ragtime band.
Off to an expensive finishing school goes the Pattersons' daughter, Mary, while son Junior is enrolled in a military academy.
Mary's new beau Johnny Jordan and his father are appalled by the family's behavior, and she ends up expelled from school.
But after he wins a small cash prize himself, the family begins once again thinking big.