James Stewart Barbara Hale James Gleason Natalie Wood
Cinematography
Joseph LaShelle
Edited by
J. Watson Webb Jr.
Music by
Lionel Newman
Color process
Black and white
Production company
20th Century Fox
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release date
November 1, 1950 (1950-11-01)
Running time
87 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Box office
$1,525,000[1][2]
The Jackpot is a 1950 American comedy film directed by Walter Lang, with James Stewart and Barbara Hale in the lead roles. It features a young Natalie Wood.
The screenplay was based on a John McNulty article, "The Jackpot", in The New Yorker (February 19, 1949), about the true experiences of James P. Caffrey of Wakefield, Rhode Island who won $24,000 worth of merchandise on August 28, 1948, from the CBS radio quiz program, Sing It Again.[3][4]
The film is mostly forgotten today, but was a successful vehicle for Stewart at the time. A radio adaptation, broadcast April 26, 1951, on NBC's Screen Directors Playhouse, received much press coverage because Stewart's co-star was Margaret Truman, making her debut as a radio actress for a fee of $2,500. She received mixed reviews, and noted that her father "enjoyed it".[5]
^"Top Grosses of 1950". Variety. January 3, 1951. p. 58.
^Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 223
^Crowther, Bosley. "The Life of Comedy", The New York Times, December 3, 1950.
^McNulty, John. The New Yorker, February 19, 1949.
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