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The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss (released in the U.S. in 1937 as "Romance and Riches"), the 1936 Alfred Zeisler English riches-to-rags-to-more-riches romantic melodrama ("E. Phillips Oppenheim's Novel"; "Based on 'The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss'"; a clever story about a millionaire English playboy who goes to his doctor because, in spite of his riches, he is bored, and the doctor "prescribes" him to work at a regular job without any of his own money to help him, and then the doctor bets him 50,000 pounds that he can't stick with it for a year; a similar plot would be used five years later in Preston Sturges' "Sullivan's Travels", and Grant reused this concept in his "An Affair to Remember" in 1957) starring Cary Grant (in the title role as Ernest Bliss), Mary Brian, Peter Gawthorne, Henry Kendall, and Leon M. Lion. Note that Cary Grant's star in Hollywood had been rising steadily in the years before this movie, but he still was primarily cast as the love interest of a bigger female star. Perhaps that is why he went to England to make this movie where he was clearly the central character, and if it was intended that this would make the studios take him more seriously, it worked, because soon after this movie, he made some of his best films in the late 1930s and early 1940s! Also note that Grant was English, as was the entire cast, with the exception of Mary Brian, who was American, and had been a star in silent pictures. She was 30 years old when this movie was made, just two years younger than Grant (and at one point they were engaged). Brian was at the tail end of her career, and if this movie was hoped to revive it, it didn't really work, because she returned to America and appeared in movies for lesser studios.
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