Champagne for Caesar *** (1950, Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm, Vincent Price, Barbara Britton, Art Linkletter) – Classic Movie Review 12,995

The effervescent 1950 American comedy film Champagne for Caesar about a quiz show contestant stars Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm and Vincent Price.

Director Richard B Whorf’s 1950 American comedy film Champagne for Caesar about a quiz show contestant stars Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm, Vincent Price, Barbara Britton, Art Linkletter and Byron Foulger.

Ronald Colman stars as Beauregard Bottomley, a genius who becomes a star on a TV quiz show as a means of taking its sponsor to the cleaners, in this effervescent, good fun spoof comedy.

It’s a good script by Hans Jacoby and Fred Brady, and it is lit up by enjoyable performances by Colman and Celeste Holm as the temptress Flame O’Neill, but Vincent Price is hilarious as the show’s neurotic sponsor, Burnbridge Waters.

DVD available.

The film is produced by Harry M Popkin for his Cardinal Pictures company, and released by United Artists.

The cast are 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’s secretary, Douglas Evans as Radio Announcer, John Eldredge as Executive No. 1, Lyle Talbot as Executive No. 2, George Leigh as Executive No. 3, John Hart as Executive No. 4, Peter Brocco as Fortune Teller, Brian O’Hara as Buck (T man), Jack Daly as Scratch (T man), Gordon Nelson as Lecturer, Herbert Lytton as Chuck Johnson, George Meader as Mr Brown, and Mel Blanc as the voice of Caesar.

Champagne for Caesar is directed by Richard B Whorf, runs 99 minutes, is made by Cardinal Pictures, is released by United Artists, is written by Hans Jacoby and Fred Brady, is shot in black and white by Paul Ivano, is produced by Harry M Popkin and George Moskov, is scored by Dimitri Tiomkin, and is designed by George Van Marter.

Release date: May 11, 1950.

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