Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "sweepstakes-ticket"

1. Ziegfeld Follies (1945)

Approved | 110 min | Comedy, Musical

The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. looks down from Heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

Directors: Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney, Merrill Pye, Charles Walters | Stars: William Powell, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball, Fred Astaire

Votes: 3,639 | Gross: $7.93M

2. Lucky Partners (1940)

Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two strangers share a sweepstakes ticket and then embark on an "imaginary" honeymoon with their "winnings".

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Ronald Colman, Ginger Rogers, Jack Carson, Spring Byington

Votes: 1,110

3. Three Strangers (1946)

Approved | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Three strangers, each dealing with a serious problem, share a sweepstakes ticket which they wished upon together before a Chinese idol.

Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Joan Lorring

Votes: 2,565

4. Murder on the Blackboard (1934)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A pretty young music teacher is bludgeoned to death in Hildegarde's school, where she's reunited with Oscar, but the autopsy report says she was dying from poison too.

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot, Gertrude Michael

Votes: 792

5. Olive's $weep$take Ticket (1941)

6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Olive gets a phone call that she has won first prize in a sweepstakes, but she can't find her ticket. She finds it, only to have it blow out the window into a woman's belt, into the sea, a ... See full summary »

Directors: Dave Fleischer, Arnold Gillespie | Stars: Margie Hines, Jack Mercer

Votes: 165

6. Laos Kai Kolonaki (1959)

77 min | Comedy, Romance

Mad about the neighbourhood's blonde diva, an honest dairyman who struggles to keep his business afloat, decides to go to great lengths to get her attention, ignoring the only woman who has ever truly loved him. Will he open his eyes?

Director: Giannis Dalianidis | Stars: Kostas Hatzihristos, Kakia Analyti, Kostas Kakavas, Rika Dialyna

Votes: 200

7. The Winning Ticket (1935)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy

An Italian-American barber, Joe Thomasello, buys a sweepstakes ticket but doesn't tell his wife, Nora, as she takes a dim view of gambling in any form. The ticket turns out to be the prize ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Leo Carrillo, Louise Fazenda, Ted Healy, Irene Hervey

Votes: 131

8. Sweepstakes Winner (1939)

Approved | 59 min | Comedy

A naive girl has $1,000 and is told to have two broke bookies bet it for her. They lose the money and she gets a job as a waitress. They come into the cafe and convince her to buy an Irish Sweepstake ticket.

Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Marie Wilson, Johnnie Davis, Allen Jenkins, Charley Foy

Votes: 163

9. When My Ship Comes In (1934)

7 min | Animation, Short

Betty Boop wins the Irish Sweepstakes, and fantasizes about what she'll do with the money.

Directors: Dave Fleischer, Myron Waldman | Star: Mae Questel

Votes: 120

10. Koritsia tis Athinas (1961)

79 min | Comedy, Romance

A romantic saleswoman nurtures the sweet fantasy of marrying a rich lad who will turn her life around, as a low-ranking office clerk has exactly the same aspirations. Can they count on true love, or is it all about the money?

Director: Apollon Gavriilidis | Stars: Sonia Zoidou, Giorgos Kabanellis, Nikos Fermas, Giannis Gionakis

Votes: 17

11. Boy, Oh Boy (1936)

19 min | Comedy, Short

Bert Lahr is a butler in the employ of some newly-rich family. His sweetheart kitchen-worker gives away his sweepstakes ticket to the chauffeur. It turns out to be the big winner. Then Bert... See full summary »

Director: William Watson | Stars: Bert Lahr, Roy Roberts, Russ Brown, Aileen Cook

12. The Flintstones (1960–1966)
Episode: The Sweepstakes Ticket (1960)

Not Rated | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Fred buys a sweepstakes ticket and decides to share it with Barney and give it to him for safekeeping; then Fred decides he can't trust his old pal.

Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Alan Reed, Jean Vander Pyl, Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet

Votes: 271

13. The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1957)
Episode: Lucky Tommy Jordan (1954)

30 min | Drama

A happily married couple are overjoyed to see the husband's old Army buddy, who promptly moves in on them. They are not so pleased when they find that the old buddy has no intention of moving out again.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: Will Rogers Jr., Kevin McCarthy, Paula Raymond, Sid Tomack

14. Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode: Post Mortem (1949)

Not Rated | 30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Following the sudden death of her husband, Josie marries Doc Archer, the man named beneficiary of her husband's life insurance policy. Investigator Westcott is suspicious after learning the... See full summary »

Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Sidney Blackmer, Peggy Conklin, Richard Coogan, Julian Noa

Votes: 52