Pot O' Gold Summary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George Marshall
Genres: Comedy
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James_Stewart once classified Pot O' Gold as his worst film, though this may have stemmed from his reported inability to get along with his costar Paulette_Goddard (who is supposed to have dismissed Stewart's acting technique with a flippant "Anyone can swallow.") Inspired by the popular radio giveaway series of the same name, the film represented an ill-fated production venture for James_Roosevelt, son of President_Franklin_D._Roosevelt. Stewart plays Jimmy Haskell, nephew of breakfast-food mogul C. J. Haskell (Charles_Winninger). Befriending bandleader Horace_Heidt (playing himself) and his orchestra members, Jimmy and his sweetheart Molly McCorkle (Paulette_Goddard) tries to persuade C. J. to sponsor Heidt's radio program. The elder Haskell refuses until Jimmy and Molly's landlady mother (Mary_Gordon) come up with a sure-fire "gimmick" for the program: they'll pick names from the phone book at random, call up those numbers, and give away huge prizes to whomever answers-provided that the call-ees are tuned into Heidt's show. This format worked beautifully for the real Pot O' Gold radio program, but tends to fall flat on screen, despite the energetic musical contributions of Horace_Heidt and his entourage (including a very young and astonishingly articulate Art_Carney, in his film debut). In England, Pot O' Gold was retitled The Golden Hour. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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