Champagne for Caesar

Champagne for Caesar

99 mins | Comedy | May 11, 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.

Champagne for Caesar

99 mins | Comedy | May 11, 1950

Champagne for Caesar
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.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Cardinal Pictures (II)
Original title Champagne for Caesar
Directors Ralph Slosser, Richard Whorf, Leon Chooluck
Writers Frederick Brady, Hans Jacoby

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

George Leigh

as Executive No. 3

John Hart

as Executive No. 4

Mel Blanc

as Caesar (voice)

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

Robert Clarke

as Actor in Movie at Drive-In

James Conaty

as Backstage Extra at Hollywood Bowl

Sayre Dearing

as Audience Extra

Douglas Evans

as Radio Announcer

Bess Flowers

as Backstage Woman at Hollywood Bowl

Jack George

as Milady Soap Executive

Lee Phelps

as Neighbor

Rose Plumer

as Little Bo-Peep

Larry Steers

as Television Viewer

Albert Einstein

as Himself