Champagne for Caesar (1950)
When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley interviews with Burnbridge Waters for a position at Waters' soap company, the owner rudely turns Bottomley down. As revenge, Bottomley enters a TV quiz show that Waters' company sponsors, with the goal of winning until he bankrupts the businessman. When Bottomley keeps acing the questions, becoming a media sensation, Waters desperately calls on vixen Flame O'Neal to uncover Bottomley's area of weakness.
- Released
- 1950-05-11
- Genres
- Comedy
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Richard Whorf, Hans Jacoby, Frederick Brady
- TMDB rating
- 7.1/10 from 26 votes
Cast
- Ronald Colman as Beauregard Bottomley
- Celeste Holm as Flame O'Neill
- Vincent Price as Burnbridge Waters
- Barbara Britton as Gwenn Bottomley
- Art Linkletter as Happy Hogan
- Gabriel Heatter as Announcer
- George Fisher as Announcer
- Byron Foulger as Gerald
- Ellye Marshall as Frosty
- Vici Raaf as Waters' Secretary
- John Eldredge as Executive No. 1
- Lyle Talbot as Executive No. 2
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