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Sweepstakes Winner

1939 film by William C. McGann

May 20, 1939 (1939-05-20)

Running time

59 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Sweepstakes Winner is a 1939 American comedy film directed by William C. McGann, written by John W. Krafft, and starring Marie Wilson, Johnnie Davis, Allen Jenkins, Charley Foy,^[1] Jerry Colonna and Frankie Burke.^[2]^[3] It was released by Warner Bros. on May 20, 1939.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Plot

A naive girl, Jennie, inherits $1,000 from her grandfather, who tells her to buy a particular racehorse with it. His instructions send her to two broke bookies. They tell her she need $5,000 to buy the horse and offer to bet it for her on a 5 to 1 horse in a race that day. That horse wins, but one of the bookies, Jinx Donovan, followed a bad tip and instead bet $500 on a loser. Rather than admit he lost the money, he arranges to have her robbed just after he returned the remaining $500 to her in a wad to look like the $5,000. Down to her last few dollars, Jennie gets a job as a waitress. The bookies eat a meal at the restaurant. Too broke to pay for it, they sell her an Irish Sweepstakes ticket for $10 and the meal. The ticket wins the first round, meaning she would win a huge cash prize if her horse won the sweepstakes race. She is offered cash for the ticket, but decided to rely on her luck instead.

Cast

Marie Wilson as Jennie Jones
Johnnie Davis as Mark Downe
Allen Jenkins as Xerxes 'Tip' Bailey
Charley Foy as 'Jinx' Donovan
Sam McDaniel as Mose
Jerry Colonna as Nick
Frankie Burke as Chalky Williams
Vera Lewis as Mrs. McCarthy
Granville Bates as Pop Reynolds
Eddie Kane as Mr. Blake
Bert Hanlon as Poolroom Guard
George Lloyd as Dutch
Sidney Bracey^[7] as Mr. Simpkins
Charles Irwin as English Radio Announcer
Bernice Pilot^[8] as Martha (Uncredited)

References

^ The American Film Institute 1999, p. 255.
^ "Sweepstakes Winner". British Film Institute. United Kingdom. Archived from the original on October 2, 2016. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
^ "Sweepstakes Winner". Turner Classic Movies. Atlanta: Turner Broadcasting System (Time Warner). Retrieved October 2, 2022.
^ "Sweepstakes Winner (1939) - Overview". Turner Classic Movies. Atlanta: Turner Broadcasting System (Time Warner). Retrieved September 3, 2015.
^ Sandra Brennan (2015). "Sweepstakes-Winner - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. New York City. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved September 3, 2015.
^ "Sweepstakes Winner". American Film Institute. Los Angeles. Retrieved October 2, 2022.
^ Palmer 1988, p. 53.
^ McCann 2009, p. 266.

Sources

The American Film Institute (1999). The 1941-1950: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films (The AFI Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States) (3 Volume set ed.). Oakland, California: University of California Press. p. 255. ISBN 978-0520215214.
Palmer, Scott (1988). A Who's Who of Australian and New Zealand Film Actors:The Sound Era. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0810820906.
McCann, Bob (2009). Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television. New York City: McFarland & Company. p. 266. ISBN 978-0786437900.