Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952) review

Samuel Fulton (Charles Coburn), one of the richest men on Earth, has no heirs to leave his fortune, so he takes an anonymous visit to the family of the love of his life and meddles with their lives to teach them about how money isn't everything, etc.  It's a lot of schmaltzy Americana - where the soda jerks are Rock Hudson and the patrons are James Dean - that shows how social climbing Harriet (Lynn Bari) will do anything to impress her neighbors and put up a front (everything has to be French, including her dogs) and is trying to dictate who her daughter (Piper Laurie) will marry (she's in love with Hudson).  As usual with Sirk it's glossy and a little plastic, and ends right when Christmas time rolls around for the warm-and-cozies (family > wealth).  The most important piece of advice in it will be lost on most: never trade on margin.