Champagne for Caesar (1950)
...the bubbliest, frothiest, tickliest comedy!
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.
- Date of release
- 1950-05-11
- TMDB
- 7.1 / 10 (26)
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Richard Whorf
Casting
- Ronald Colman — Beauregard Bottomley
- Celeste Holm — Flame O'Neill
- Vincent Price — Burnbridge Waters
- Barbara Britton — Gwenn Bottomley
- Art Linkletter — Happy Hogan
- Gabriel Heatter — Announcer
- George Fisher — Announcer
- Byron Foulger — Gerald
- Ellye Marshall — Frosty
- Vici Raaf — Waters' Secretary
- John Eldredge — Executive No. 1
- Lyle Talbot — Executive No. 2
Interesting facts
Champagne for Caesar is a 1950 American comedy film directed by Richard Whorf from an original screenplay by Hans Jacoby and Fred Brady. It stars Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm, Vincent Price, Barbara Britton and Art Linkletter. The film was produced by Harry M. Popkin for his Cardinal Pictures studio and released by United Artists.
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