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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[]

References[]

  1. The American Film Institute 1999, p. 255.
  2. "Sweepstakes Winner". Retrieved on September 17, 2016.
  3. "Sweepstakes Winner". Turner Broadcasting System (Time Warner). Retrieved on October 2, 2022.
  4. "Sweepstakes Winner (1939) - Overview". Turner Broadcasting System (Time Warner). Retrieved on September 3, 2015.
  5. Sandra Brennan (2015). "Sweepstakes-Winner - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes". Retrieved on September 3, 2015.
  6. "Sweepstakes Winner". Retrieved on October 2, 2022.
  7. Palmer 1988, p. 53.
  8. McCann 2009, p. 266.


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