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Pot o’ Gold – (The Golden Hour) (1941)
American romantic musical comedy.
A young man is caught between his music-hating uncle and a pretty girl from a family of musicians.
Based on the radio series Pot o’ Gold. The film was released April 3, 1941, eight months before the NBC radio series came to an end.
Pot o’ Gold was radio’s first big-money giveaway program, garnering huge ratings within four weeks of its 1939 debut.
The program’s success prompted production of the film. The premise of the radio program, created by Ed Byron, was that any person who picked up the telephone when host Horace Heidt called would automatically win $1000.
Phone numbers were chosen by three spins on the Wheel of Fortune: (1) choice of phone directory, (2) page number and (3) the line on the page.
The series ran on NBC from September 26, 1939 to December 23, 1941 and later a new show by the same name from October 2, 1946 to March 26, 1947 on ABC.
Interesting Trivia
The only full-length feature produced by James Roosevelt, eldest son of FDR, although he was Executive Producer on seven shorts the same year.
Viewers may be surprised to see Art Carney in a small role. He was then a musician and comedian with the Horace Heidt orchestra, and Pot o’ Gold was his only film credit for more than 20 years.
| Directed by | George Marshall |
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| Written by | Andrew Bennison Monte Brice |
| Based on | Pot O’ Gold 1939–1941; 1946 radio series by Robert Brilmayer Haydn Roth Evans |
| Produced by | James Roosevelt |
| Starring | James Stewart Paulette Goddard Horace Heidt Charles Winninger Mary Gordon |
| Cinematography | Hal Mohr |
| Edited by | Lloyd Nosler |
| Music by | Lou Forbes |
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James Roosevelt Productions
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time
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86 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $600,000 |
