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If information technology weren't for seeing Jimmy Stewart in the lead, there is no reason to watch this picture show!
This is a truly amazing picture. Jimmy Stewart had simply won the Oscar for his performance in PHILADELPHIA STORY and then he was loaned out to a poverty row studio to make this low-budget mess! Surely you lot would take thought he merited material better than this terrible moving picture! Jimmy plays an idealistic musician--an odd bit of casting, just hey--information technology's Hollywood. Anyways, trying to live this life as a music teacher isn't easy and information technology's obvious he won't get rich, but he staunchly refuses to join his uncle (Charles Winninger) in business. The rest of the plot and how they brought Paulette Goddard into this mess of a film is really irrelevant--as there are so many distracting and forgettable songs that it seems less of a moving-picture show and more of a long series of music videos strung along by a tenuous plot! What a waste material to make a film similar this when y'all have Jimmy Stewart! In fact, after a while, I was so tired of this boring film that I actually had to struggle to spotter--it was that bad. I recommend this film only for movie historians and people who insist on seeing EVERY Stewart film!
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One of James Stewart'due south weakest films, but passes the time more than amiably
James 'Jimmy' Stewart once, reportedly, said that he considered Pot o' Gold his worst film. Well information technology is certainly nowhere near among his best work (one of his weakest actually) and it is kind of like shooting fish in a barrel to see why he would think that. But fifty-fifty bottom Stewart is worth seeing, even if it is just one time, because Stewart was that proficient an role player.
Pot o' Gold's biggest debit is the story. There is very piffling to information technology structurally and it does struggle to sustain the running fourth dimension, which is not that long. Information technology could also take washed with some tightening up with some parts that felt creaky and forced. Stewart and Paulette Goddard I felt did lack romantic chemistry, apart from the odd charming moment it felt more clinical than natural and tender and it did seem like they weren't that fond of one another.
Scripting-wise, Pot o' Gold has mixed results. A good deal of it is witty and quite funny, and there is a likeably experience-skillful honesty. Other parts even so are a touch hokey and contrived, as if they were really to heighten laughs but were struggling to do and so, and crisper timing and more freshness might have helped.
It is a good-looking film though. It is not exactly lavish and there are times where it looks like it was fabricated quickly, but on the most part information technology does wait pretty and like it was fabricated with professionalism, so it hardly looks cheap. Besides loved the motion picture'south quaint flow amuse. The music score has the appropriate amount of whimsy, and the songs, while not the almost memorable for a musical, are tuneful, energetic and plenty to leave the feet borer. Do You lot Believe in Fairy Tales and With a Pocketknife, a Fork and a Spoon (don't worry, the song is non every bit dizzy equally the title sounds) are peculiarly fun. The choreography is spirited and doesn't try to do anything too complicated (neither does it get simplistic), besides managing to keep within the lightweight feel of the balance of the film. The dream sequences are imaginatively surreal and colourful, without beingness too heavy-handed or inappropriate.
George Marshall's direction is lively and does a good job keeping the film light and bouncy. While not ever working, the humor is mostly experience-good, witty and honest, and the film does take a sugariness charm regardless of the story's flaws. Stewart has a groovy easy-going charisma and a sparkling twinkle, and acquits himself reasonably well in the singing department, and Goddard, who is much better than she was in 2d Chorus, is beautiful and fiery. Good amusing support as well from Charles Winniger (peculiarly excellent) and Mary Gordon, and while in that location could have been a footling less of him Horace Heidt does fine also and is in no way a liability.
To summarise, Pot o' Gold passes the fourth dimension more than amiably and is a decent enough film, but, considering Stewart's calibre as a personal favourite player of mine and as a fan of musicals, this viewer was hoping for more than. vi/x Bethany Cox
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Pot of Iron Pyrites
Pot o' Golden will not rank in the upper one-half of either the films of James Stewart or Paulette Goddard. But it is a tribute to the influence of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Take a look at the producer'due south name, James Roosevelt. That folks was the oldest son of the President of the U.s.a.. One day Jimmy Roosevelt said Dad I want to exist a movie producer, so some calls got fabricated. All the Roosevelt kids had some problems settling into careers and Jimmy was no exception.
I remember the but style for Pot o' Golden to actually have worked is if they had gone all the mode with some professional musical talent other than Horace Heidt's ring. If Dick Powell, who at this time was trying so hard to leave musicals backside or John Payne were bachelor that would have been improve than Stewart. Instead of Paulette Goddard, a vocalizer like Alice Faye. Some really good songs could have helped and definitely someone like Busby Berkeley to do the fantasy sequences.
The two best in this moving picture by far are Charles Winninger and Mary Gordon. Winninger is Stewart's curmudgeonly uncle and owner of a wellness food factory which is located side by side to Mary Gordon's house. Mary is Paulette's mom. Watching these two go at each other shows them and Manager George Marshall at his all-time.
When Pot o' Gilt got a less than enthusiastic reception from the public that didn't faze producer James Roosevelt. He settled in California and served several terms in Congress.
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fun setup just then
Jimmy Haskell (James Stewart) is a music-loving teacher. His nutrient processing tycoon music-antisocial uncle C.J. Haskell pushes him to close his belatedly father's declining music shop and get piece of work for him. C.J. is battling the musical McCorkle family and trying to buy up their property. Jimmy arrives in the city and is befriended by Molly McCorkle (Paulette Goddard). Every bit C.J. sets the cops on the McCorkles, Molly convinces Jimmy to throw a rotten lycopersicon esculentum which hits C.J. in the face. Jimmy has to keep his relationships secret from both his uncle and from Molly.
I don't know much well-nigh Jimmy Stewart in musicals. Information technology's non necessarily his forte but the rom-com with Paulette Goddard is right up his alley. The setup is fun and the story is ready to go only something is off. The story meanders into a mess. Stewart and Goddard simply don't accept enough time together. Jimmy should man-up to his uncle. It makes him expect weak in personality and his love for Molly. It adds upwards to a movie of what could take been.
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Not so quite a dead end under the Queensborough Bridge.
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Simply like the Dead End Kids did, the poor Manhattan folk who live on 62nd Street find something to keep them happy, and hither, information technology is the musicians who live in Mary Gordon'southward boarding house. None of them seem to be paying room or board, yet she feeds them none the less and seems happy to exist doing it. Grouchy businessman Charles Winninger is angered over the constant distractions from his work and calls in the constabulary to put a stop to it. When he arrives, a sudden smack of a tomato in the puss stuns him but delights the surrounding neighbors. Gordon'southward daughter (Paulette Goddard) reveals that the handsome harmonica player (James Stewart) was the culprit, and this results in Stewart becoming a hero. The problem is that Stewart is really Winninger's nephew, already at odds with him for running a music school that went under.
A preposterous plot is amusingly told in this enjoyable musical that starts off entertainingly plenty but goes down the same path as a dozen musicals you've already seen, a radio testify where $k will exist given away in a mode to exist adamant. George Marshall, who directed Ms. Goddard in a series of comedies at Paramount with Bob Hope, moved over to an independent studio at United Artists to direct this ane, and the results seem like something out of a script that Frank Capra might take once rejected.
A cute musical number, "A Knife, a Fork and a Spoon", features an orchestra where all the instruments, you will not be surprised to guess from the title, are props from a dinner table. Stewart gets to sing a scrap here, another memorable number called "When Johnny Toots His Horn", while a big product number ("Broadway Caballero") seems almost similar something that Busby Berkley might take choreographed. There are some genuinely funny moments, particularly the theft of a raffle wheel and the collision caused by people overwhelmed by the dozens of national phone books they are carrying. Stewart and Goddard are a beautiful couple and Gordon, equally e'er, is adorable, alternately feisty while insulting the imperious Winninger and loving, while being surrogate mother to everybody else. This is 1 of those films that manages to exist extremely entertaining fifty-fifty if the plot is not at all close to beingness believable.
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A fun James Stewart comedy/musical
This light-hearted moving-picture show sees James Stewart playing Jimmy Haskell, the possessor of a declining music store in a modest town. His music-hating uncle C.J. Haskell wants him to requite it up and join the family concern. Shortly subsequently he is forced to sell so heads to the city. Here he finds himself in an argument betwixt a group of musicians, living at Ma McCorkle's boarding business firm and representatives of a local business human being who is disturbed by their playing. Jimmy throws a tomato and hits the businessman... his uncle! He gets away without being recognised and is seen as a hero by the musicians; and Ma'southward daughter Molly. He is at present in a predicament; his uncle is determined to place and prosecute the man who threw the lycopersicon esculentum and the McCorkle'southward might not take kindly to having a Haskell in their midst. Will he be able to reconcile the families or is he just going to upset everybody when the truth comes out?
This pic won't provide likewise many surprises just that doesn't thing. Information technology is charming, witty and features enough of musical turns, but not too many. James Stewart is a delight every bit Jimmy and the rest of the cast are solid. The comedy is gentle; mostly based on the facts that Jimmy'south uncle doesn't know he threw the lycopersicon esculentum, the McCorkle'southward not knowing he is a Haskell and his attempts to keep it that way. Highlights amongst the musical numbers are a functioning in a jail cell and the pre-dinner performance featuring 'musical glasses. Comedy highlights included making Uncle C.J. think he was hearing and seeing things that nobody else could and the finale where Molly comes up with a plan which could unfortunately country Jimmy in jail if he can't call back of a fashion to implement it legally. Inevitably there is also some romance between Jimmy and Molly. Overall a fun little film with no offensive cloth and enough of gentle laughs; well worth a lookout.
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perplexing
Whatever movie star, even the greatest, under contract to a studio had his or her share of duds. But this is one I take problem understanding. How did James Stewart, an actor who probably is in the top 10 of all-time peachy stars, land in this film? Especially afterwards just winning the Oscar.
"Pot o' Gold" appears to have been an independent production by ane James Roosevelt, FDR'due south son, and it was distributed through United Artists. Information technology's about a boyfriend, James Hamilton Haskel, who runs his dad'south music store. The shop isn't doing well, and his Uncle Charley (Charles Winninger) wants him to be part of his big wellness food business. James accepts for financial reasons. Uncle Charley is going crazy with the swing music existence played next to his factory by the McCorkle family and Horace Heidt'south band. Ma McCorkle and Uncle Charley hate one another. Without knowing that he'southward related to Uncle Charlie, the daughter, Molly (Paulette Goddard) falls for James. This leads to all sorts of complications, culminating on a radio bear witness, the Haskel Happiness Hour.
This is a mid-level musical at best, with Jimmy doing some of his own singing, though he'south also dubbed, and Paulette Goddard, who came shut to being Scarlett O'Hara, is dubbed all the style through. The band music is very good.
"Pot o' Golden" has a depression-budget look to it, and supposedly James Stewart hated this movie. I can't blame him. I only don't know how or why he and Goddard became mixed up in information technology.
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Jimmy Stewart Sings!
"Music Shop" owner James Stewart (as James "Jimmy" Hamilton Haskell) loves his piece of work, only his business is going broke. Wealthy uncle Charles Winninger (as Charlie "C.J." Haskell) wants Mr. Stewart to give up his faltering store and work at the more profitable "Haskell Wellness Foods" business. Also a radio prove sponsor, Mr. Winninger dislikes Stewart's noisy music store and Horace Heidt'southward band playing regularly exterior his factory. The musicians are supported by boardinghouse mom Mary Gordon. Her pretty daughter Paulette Goddard (every bit Molly McCorkle) gets involved with Stewart. "Pot o' Gold" fictionally tells how a real radio show came to give away a weekly $1,000 jackpot. Stewart once called it the worst of his films - it's a musical and he sings (neither unpleasantly nor memorably); also, he has footling rapport with Ms. Goddard.
**** Pot o' Gold (4/three/41) George Marshall ~ James Stewart, Paulette Goddard, Horace Heidt, Charles Winninger
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Erstwhile fashion comedy.
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Jimmy Haskell(James Stewart)owns a small music store that is failing and when the shop is sold, his rich Uncle C.J.(Charles Winninger)urges Jimmy to come work for him. Instead of going to work in the food packing manufacturing plant, Jimmy finds himself joining a neighborhood band. If only the band could play on the radio show the elderberry Haskell sponsors...well, yous know the remainder. Jimmy and his Uncle C.J. mend their human relationship. Male child falls in love with pretty girl and the band get to play on nationwide radio. Clean, wholesome fun with music and slight comedy. Other cast members: the lovely Paulette Goddard, Mary Gordon, Frank Melton and Horace Heidt.
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Gifts
tedg 17 April 2006
I admit that I selected this non because of the amazing Jimmy Stewart at his bumbling best. Nor for Paulette, presumably Hollywood'southward greatest charm of the period.
No, I was drawn by Horace Heidt, the real life bandleader who stars nether his own name here and carries his band with him. For some reason unfathomable to me, his bands e'er seemed to come out on the second tier of music history while lesser groups are remembered fondly. Ah well, I guess that'due south the music concern, and he did well plenty before he left it to be a professional investor.
I met the human in 1964, a time closer to this movie than to now. He said a few things to me near music that I accept never heard as intelligently since. From anyone. About any art.
The story hither is a well built i: a food magnate with a cannon in his plant (to puff rice) has a feud going with the boarding house next door which houses Horace's band. The businessman's nephew comes to town and falls in love with the innkeeper'southward girl.
The device of the show is a radio bear witness that Steward takes over and which hosts the band.
Its a musical and true to the form at the time, has no consistency to how the music finds an excuse to appear. Sometimes it is a show within the bear witness. (Even and so, there's some strangeness. A big number is for a radio audience, simply morphs into an elaborately costumed dance stage routine.)
Sometimes it is somewhat real, with the band-members just breaking into song and that developing into a number. And sometimes its strangely internal, where the affair stops being existent and itself becomes a show. I recollect this was not deliberate only a simple affidavit of what they idea the audience would take. Much of the music (except the big stage number) is more musically heady than what you normally find in movie musicals. I'd recommend it on that footing.
And there are some nifty cinematic jokes, too, a few quite clever mixed in with the corny ones.
The radio show in the motion-picture show was based on a real radio show of the same proper name and gimmick featuring Horace Heidt, and then there's yet some other fold for the evidence within the prove.
If you don't intendance about the film and its story (and few folks seem to with musicals) and you retrieve of musical numbers more in terms of musical than large dance numbers, you volition like this. You will.
Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.
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All that glitters is not gold...
Ugh! How anyone can lavish all sorts of praise on this terrible mess of a flick is beyond belief. JAMES STEWART always considered it his worst movie and I can certainly understand why. Not only is it a Poverty Row motion-picture show fabricated on the cheap (and it looks it), merely it came at a time when his budding film career was heading toward a high crest of the moving ridge. He became a huge star despite this indiscretion.
PAULETTE GODDARD is as lively and pleasant as usual, but she's totally wasted as his screen sweetheart. The music is terribly banal, as is nearly of the dialog, and the whole film has the look of a Public Domain impress that nobody bothered to clear up--it looks every bit though it was filmed underwater! I struggled to watch most of it and finally gave up. Life is also brusk to waste matter on films of this caliber, even if Jimmy and Paulette are two of my favorites.
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Washington Heidts
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It'southward difficult to believe this entry was shot in 1941 - Stewart made only one more motion picture, Zeigfeld Daughter that same twelvemonth - before becoming the showtime histrion to enlist in the services - because everything about it screams mid thirties from the almost non-existent plot to the style of the acting, especially Jimmy Steward who, past then, had already made Destry Rides Again (also shot by George Marshall) and picked upward an Oscar for The Philadelphia Story. It's harmless enough with Charles Winniger - some other link with this type of thirties fodder - phoning it in as the heavy-cum-buffoon and Paulette Goddard weighing in with the 'dear' interest. Horace Heidt was a mediocre band leader at best and does nothing hither to counter that claim. A passable time-waster but that'southward almost information technology.
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You lot CAN take this one with you but yous probably won't want to
Musical comedy starring James Stewart as a harmonica player who falls for Paulette Goddard and her musical family unit while trying to hibernate that their sworn enemy is his uncle (Charles Winninger). Jimmy apparently idea this was his worst picture. It's certainly not his best. The script is weak and the chemistry betwixt Stewart and Goddard is non-existent. Also you can only deal with Charles Winninger yelling so much. Betwixt him and Mary Gordon playing one of her typical loud-mouthed Irish matriarch roles, you actually get sick of these characters fast. The songs are frequent and entirely forgettable. The whole thing looks and feels cheap. All that existence said, Jimmy and Paulette are even so bully stars that are likable individually fifty-fifty if they aren't conceivable equally a couple. Bears strong similarities to another Stewart film, You Tin can't Take It with Y'all, although that's an obviously superior classic in every way.
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Is This Stewart'due south Simply Musical -One-act?
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I have a soft spot for this ane. Paulette Goddard is that spot. She looks slap-up and this is one of the first times I have seen a movie where she sings. The plot is pretty much a standard musical type of plot.
Jimmy Haskell (Stewart) has a music store which is going out of business. (Just time I have seen Jimmy carrying a banjo). His Uncle, C.J.Haskell offers him a chance to earn a Pot O'Gold subsequently he goes under with his health food business organisation. So Stewart comes to town and meets Molly McCorkel (Goddard) her ma (Mary Gordon) and family orchestra to find his Uncle. Well, information technology turns out the Uncle is in a feud with the McCorkles and Jimmy tosses his manner into it with a love apple (no, non Goddard, a existent one from the produce stand).
From here, the plot goes into overdrive with lots of music and harping from CJ who dislikes music. Because of the independent production company -James Roosevelt Productions -the sound track in mono is quite crude sounding. The spirit of the story and the talent of the cast makes this an okay film. This is the start uncredited part of Fine art Carney, who would go on from here to go a famous sewer worker.
The music slows the plot at times, only at less than ninety minutes at least it does non cease things and the music is good despite the sound and Stewart and Goddard do their own music - hither are the credits - Hullo, Cy, What's A-Cookin'? (uncredited) Written past Henry Russell and Louis Forbes Performed by various characters Pete the Piper (uncredited) Written by Henry Russell Performed by Paulette Goddard with Horace Heidt & His Musical Knights When Johnny Toots His Horn (uncredited) Written past Hy Heath and Fred Rose Performed past James Stewart A Knife, a Fork and a Spoon (uncredited) Written by Dave Franklin Performed by Horace Heidt & His Musical Knights Exercise You lot Believe in Fairy Tales? (uncredited) Music by Vee Lawnhurst Lyrics by Mack David Performed past Larry Cotton fiber with Horace Heidt & His Musical Knights Broadway Caballero (uncredited) Written by Henry Russell Performed by Paulette Goddard with Horace Heidt & His Musical Knights
It is a bit of a mystery where this was filmed, but all the shots appear to be inside a studio.
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Over the Rainbow
Based on a popular radio evidence of the period. Jimmy Stewart was reunited with the director of 'Destry Rides Again' in this, the terminal film he completed before his war service. (He returned a changed man, with a new grace before the cameras in generally less frivolous fare, at least until the sixties.)
More like a thirties screwball comedy with songs (one of them performed by by a surprisingly substantial black contingent), with Paulette Goddard (ne Levy) equally an Irish gaelic colleen living in New York.
Charles Winninger'due south grumpy old curmudgeon performs a similar plot office to Lionel Barrymore equally the satanic Potter in Stewart's postwar render, 'Information technology's a Wonderful Life', without of form presenting anything similar as big a threat.
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As a moving picture it's weak, every bit a lot of zany fun it's zany and fun!
Pot o' Gold (1941)
This is a rousing, fun, slightly goofy movie that has a couple of import aspects if you actually lookout information technology through. Outset, at that place is the persona of James Stewart in a pre-Wonderful Life role that must have influenced Capra in that 1946 picture show. Second, the war is winding up and here is a Big Band inspired kind of cheerleading about community and keeping a adept face on things as the world falls apart.
Director George Marshall conspicuously had a mandate from somewhere not to accept this too seriously. Even as a musical, it's got some creaky story elements and a number of forced scenes. Just it's the 1940s, and Hollywood has actually learned how to crank out a good movie, so this i is fast, has some cracking musical numbers, and is tightly if conventionally filmed.
Likewise Stewart is Paulette Godard, who is an underrated natural, one time upon a time Charlie Chaplin's wife (she had the starring function in "Modern Times"). It's also fun to see Stewart pretending to play harmonica--he'southward right on the with it, so he probably played pretty well.
So, no great shakes here, unless you like that period music a lot.
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Hilarious screwball musical romantic one-act, featuring tycoon Charles Winninger vs. everyone else.
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Reportedly was Jimmy Stewart's to the lowest degree favorite film making experience. Don't know what his problems were, but I charge per unit information technology as the most fun motion picture he costarred in that I accept seen, if not exactly the most sophisticated nor publicized. Oh well, sure didn't hold with his post-state of war politics either.
Actually, was inspired past the very popular radio bear witness of the same name, also featuring the Heidt ring here featured. The main reason for the programme's popularity: giving away $k. to some random person with a telephone, is duplicated at film'southward end, admitting in a much more comical initial manner.
Jimmy plays his stereotypical cocky as a young human: an easy going, 'aw shucks', modest town bachelor yokel(Jimmy Haskell) who is standing his begetter's small music shop, barely making ends meet. One fine day, firebrand Uncle Charlie Haskell bursts in with an ultimatum that he needs Jimmy to assist with his apace expanding health nutrient business and his weekly radio prove, offering to make him his successor if he makes good. Well, Jimmy is none likewise excited almost this prospect until the broker comes by with news that his music shop volition before long be foreclosed. So, Jimmy reluctantly sets off for the big metropolis to join Charlie. With Charlie'southward big building in sight, he finds various street people singing and dancing to the music of a band on a nearby tenement rooftop. But this music drives the busy Charlie upwards the wall. Thus, he sends a goon to threaten the band with jail for disturbing the(his) peace. But, Ma McCorkle, who hosts the band in her boarding business firm below, runs out and intimidates the goon and accompanying policeman, instigating Charlie to run out to counter Ma. Molly McCorkle(Paulette Goddard) picks up a tomato to throw at the goon. But,Jimmy volunteers to do the job himself, accidentally hitting Charlie in the face instead, condign an instant neighborhood hero. Jimmy and Molly duck out before noticed, go acquainted, and Jimmy decides to have her offer to room with the band, she being unaware that he is Charlie's nephew. This looks like a heavenly arrangement for Jimmy, so he accepts, despite the Haskels vs. McCorkle feud he will be in the center ring with.
It's decided that Charlie needs an immediate vacation in some very remote corner of the globe so that ii problems can be remedied in his absence 1)his boring radio program designed to promote his wellness nutrient products. 2) the McCorkle ring needs some gigs and could use exposure on radio to make itself widely known. Music-hating tightwad Charlie flies into a rage when he tunes his radio to his program, while in remotest Canada, to discover that it's being broadcast from a nightclub, featuring the McCorkle band, with Molly singing, and $chiliad. of his money being given to some random person on the other end of a telephone. At ane signal, looks like everyone is going to cease upwardly mad at each other. But, in the finale, Charlie suddenly changes his 'tune' when he'south told how popular his new plan format is, with sponsors lining up, providing the makings for a happy ending for all, with a wedding suggested. No uncertainty, the names Haskell and McCorkle were chosen as resembling the well known Hatfield vs. McCoy backwoods feud.
White-haired, ex-vaudevillian, Charles Winninger, is a anarchism every bit Uncle Charlie. Interestingly, Winninger was cast as the primary supporting male actor in each of Stewart'south last 3 films, made by 3 dissimilar companies, earlier the latter took a long break from Hollywood to participate in WWII. Although hither he is cast as hating music, he was often included in musicals, where he sometimes sang and danced a bit every bit a secondary musical performer. Mary Gordon, as Ma McCorkle, plays her role as a feisty , yet motherly, Irish matron to the hilt. Actually, she was born a Scot, and native Irish gaelic can tell that in her pseudo-Irish accent. Jimmy and Paulette are good in their roles, but the 2 feuding senior family unit members primarily steal the show in the dramatic comedy aspects. The other key ingredient is Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights, who were involved in all the musical numbers, as the ring, singers and/or dancers. Jimmy and Paulette also sometimes participated in the musical numbers as harmonica players, singers or dancers, although they were seldom cast in films in musical roles. Really, Jimmy had some musical background, would afterwards star in "The Glenn Miller Story", and was technically the male star of his last '41 film, "Ziegfeld Girls" : a much more lavish, but much less fun, musical.
Paulette reportedly learned some dancing for her role with Fred Astaire in the prior very slight musical "Second Chorus". She's quite adept as the star singer/dancer in the ane elaborate stage production :"Broadway Caballero" , in which she postures every bit a Latino manlike human, then changes into a frilly evening gown for the last portion, which included more dancing. Most of the other musical numbers are fun, petty novelty numbers, washed equally a group, either in breezy circumstances or for the radio show. The exception is the fairly elaborate "Do Yous Believe in Fairy Tales": a romantic ballad, relating to Paulette's nocturnal fantasize. The boarding house musical production, with the gang effectually the huge dinner tabular array, is divided into several distinct segments, including a drinking glass harmonica segment. This is truly a unique, memorable scene.
Director George Marshall was a veteran from the early silent era. His experience was mostly in comedies and westerns, rather than musicals
This now public domain film is presently available on DVD, and at YouTube
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They Shall Have Music
POT O'GOLD (United Artists, 1941), directed by George Marshall, is not exactly a luck of the Irish gaelic fantasy about a leprechaun and his pot of gilded, just a forgotten still unsuccessful musical with title derived from a popular radio plan. POT O'GOLD also has the distinction of beingness both presented and produced for the only time by James Roosevelt, older son of the then electric current U.s. president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Independently fabricated, it also has the stardom of starring not ii newcomers on the rising merely two major actors on loan-out assignment from their habitation base studios, James Stewart (from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) and Paulette Goddard (from Paramount). Other than being the motion-picture show debut of band-leader, Horace Heidt, it has little to offering except for the presence of contempo Academy Award winner, James Stewart, in what he claimed to exist his worst movie. Maybe non his very worst, except only when watching bad reproductive copies on video or DVD, but one of his lesser contributions with fine actors performing to second-rate script with third-rate songs to boot.
The story revolves effectually James Hamilton Haskell (James Stewart), a harmonica histrion who has inherited his late father's music store. Considering business is failing, his rich uncle, Charles J. Haskell (Charles Winninger), sponsor of the weekly radio program, "Haskell's Happiness Hr," offers Jimmy the opportunity of going into business with him. Every bit much every bit Jimmy loves music, his uncle detests it, especially when his institution happens to be across the alley of Mrs. McCorkle'south (Mary Gordon) boardinghouse on 419 63rd Street where Horace Heidt and his band play their music on the rooftop. Equally Jimmy arrives to encounter with his uncle, he encounters Mrs. McCorkle'south daughter, Molly (Paulette Goddard), singer of the band, who, during a disruption between the McCorkles and the Haskills, unwittingly throws a tomato plant at his uncle'southward face up, thus, becoming a hero to the McCorkles and tenants of the building. Every bit Jimmy tries to hide his identity from Molly and her friends, he attempts on helping the music makers by having them appear on his uncle'south radio plan without his cognition.
Other members of the cast include: Frank Melton (Jasper); Dick Hogan (Willie McCorkle); Jed Prouty (J.K. Louderman); James Burke (Officer Grady); and Charles Arnt (Parks, the Butler). Notable operation goes to Mary Gordon in another one of many stereotypical strong-willed Irish female parent/landlady; Charles Winninger playing a sort of role he's done hundreds of times before, with the simply exception of non being an entertainer who feels vaudeville will be making a improvement; and future TV personality, Art Carney Ed Norton of "The Honeymooners") briefly playing an announcer during the radio giveaway segment.
Though Stewart is non actually associated with musicals, interestingly POT O'GOLD happens to be his fourth, and second for which he sings a song or two. The motion flick soundtrack, with tunes past unfamiliar composers as Lou Forbes, Henry Sucher, Dave Franklin, Mark David and Vee Lawnhurst, is as follows "Hi Cy," "Pete, the Piper Man" (sung by Paulette Goddard); "By the Moonlight," "When Johnny Toots His Horn" (sung by James Stewart); "Hail, McCorkle," "A Knife, a Fork and a Spoon," "My Irish Stew," "Oh, Boarder House," "Do Yous Believe in Fairy Tales?" (sung past ring members, after sung past James Stewart during dream sequence); and "The Caballero from Broadway." Of the songs, "The Cavallero from Broadway" gets the production number treatment, choreographed by Larry Ceballos. A lively tune and well staged, it's something best appreciated from the standpoint of the story for boob tube as opposed to listening radio audience who couldn't very well see what they are hearing, otherwise the score is a far cry from being Irving Berlin, Cole Porter or a George Gershwin. I doubt is whatsoever i of these composers would ever consider such title songs as "A Knife, A Fork and a Spoon" and brand a success of it.
While POT O'Gilt reportedly began its dissemination on television during its earliest years earlier disappearing by the mid 1950s, it wasn't until the advent of cable television and habitation video did POT O Gilded, having become a public domain movie title, began to discover a new audition by the early 1980s, especially on public idiot box. In later on years, it's turned upward on many cable channels, notably in contempo years on Turner Classic Movies (TCM premiere: April xiv, 2007).
POT O Gilt may non win any jackpot as a sort-after movie musical archetype, but a curiosity for those interested in the careers of its major leading players, especially that of Jimmy Stewart. (***)
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Silly musical comedy...
1st watched two/27/05 - iii out of 10(Dir-George Marshall): Light-headed musical comedy with a basic storyline of the good guy winning out through whatever means possible(even if information technology'due south illegal). Jimmy Stewart, of grade, is in the skillful guy role every bit the nephew of a music hater who tries to bring him into the family health food business organization. Jimmy was the owner of an music store and it's seems like wherever he goes, the music stays with him and health food inappreciably fifty-fifty comes into the equation. The music in the movie is OK, when it's not being corny, only it seems similar the storyline kind of just grows sillier and sillier with every twist and plough with the attempt, of class, for you to exist smiling from ear to ear in the end, except nosotros all know it's merely a flick, and our normal lives will deport on after it'south over. High gloss, low impact is the bottom line.
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Sliding downward that rainbow and landing right in the pot!
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"Pot o' Aureate" is such an obscure movie that it is perhaps known only to the truthful aficionados of the move film industry. Based on a radio giveaway program of the same title, this musical comedy stars my favorite actor James Stewart every bit the harmonica-playing James Hamilton Haskel (Jimmy for curt), who owns a floundering music shop that becomes a free-for-all practice venue for aspiring immature musicians. Costarring is the nearly-likely-forgotten commercial bandleader Horace Heidt along with his Musical Knights, who rehearse at a boarding firm owned by the benevolent Ma McCorkle (Mary Gordon), whose daughter Molly (Paulette Goddard) sings with the band. Next-door to this melodic funhouse is the health nutrient factory endemic past Jimmy's uncle Charlie (Charles Winninger), who absolutely despises music. (Ironically, Charles Winninger was a trombonist in real life.) The director of this fun petty picture is George Marshall, who too directed Mr. Stewart and Mr. Winninger in the more successful musical comedy Western "Destry Rides Once again" (1939).
My favorite scenes from "Pot o' Gold" include the following. As Jimmy walks down the street carrying his suitcase, he is astonished to find some of the working class (e.g., icemen, Chinese launderers, and shoe shiners) singing along with Horace Heidt's band, which can be heard from Ma McCorkle's rooftop. At the jail, Jimmy and his prison cell mates have a wonderful time as they sing "When Johnny Toots His Horn" and trip the light fantastic toe to Jimmy'southward harmonica playing (some of y'all Three Stooges aficionados out in that location will observe supporting actor Bud Jamison, who had a fine singing voice himself, portraying 1 of the cell mates); Jimmy'southward singing voice during this scene is also quite pleasant to heed to. At the dinner tabular array, Jimmy is given a lively musical induction into the McCorkle clan. And when Jimmy commencement observes Horace Heidt'southward band in rehearsal, he secretly whips out his harmonica and joins in; the band realizes what a commodity it has in Jimmy and allows him to sit in on some other system involving an entire chorus of harmonicas.
James Stewart considered "Pot o' Aureate" to be the worst moving picture ever in which he appeared. Certainly, it does not even compare with, say, "Vertigo" (1958) or "The Naked Spur" (1953). It is also a shame that all the various great musical numbers in this picture show are very much forgotten and that Stewart & Paulette Goddard supposedly did not get along very well on the fix. Just "Pot o' Gold" is however an enjoyable motion-picture show nevertheless, even if it does not charge per unit among the more significant movies of Mr. James Stewart.
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Corny Comic Escapism with Music
The great James Stewart and the lovely Paulette Goddard appear atypically in this fun musical well-nigh a music store owner. It'southward an simple plot and a great example of Hollywood escapism on the verge of the U.South. inbound World War 2. Corny comedy is buttressed by memorable tunes like "With a Pocketknife, a Fork, and a Spoon" and "Hello, Cy, What's a-Cookin'?" --from Musicals on the Argent Screen, American Library Clan, 2013
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This moving picture could non make up its heed
...as to what it wanted to be. A one-act, a musical, a fantasy, a romance. Jimmy Stewart said it was his least favourite of all his movies. Simply I enjoyed his singing in ane office of it (another part was dubbed) and some of the scenes are fun, the dancing and singing especially. Information technology gave me the feeling it had most 5 different directors, each with his ain vision, 4 script writers with different skill sets, I was strangely uninvolved autonomously from determining the level of embarrassment our Jimmy tried non bear witness in each scene. Paulette had some nice numbers, particularly a rumba scene and I was delighted to spot a dapper and suave Art Carney as a radio announcer. Some neat little bits that were funny every bit in Jimmy telling the mother of a picayune girl that she needed to practise the piano a little harder and then the mother leaves and the kid proceeds to play like a prodigy and everyone ignores her. This could take been a really funny motion-picture show simply it missed past a broad mark. It was almost as if anybody got bored with the whole project about 1/iii of the way through. A 4 out of ten.
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Odd story, but interesting.
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Good picker upper way motion-picture show. Classic Stewart. Reminded me of You Can't Take information technology With You. I was watching this as part of a 2 sided DVD. With Made For Each Other. Which isn't really a comedy. But Pot O Gold, rather hilarious. Especially when Stewart finds out who he really striking with that tomato. :) Get the feeling a few people wound upwardly on Information technology's a Wonderful Life. Simply can't tell. All in all well worth the $1 I paid for it. Probably would just it on a $10 version as well. The just real complaint is the movie is a chip on the short side. I would disagree with a few here saying it'south non worth their time. There's quite a few movies out at that place that aren't worth my fourth dimension, this isn't i of them.
Full rating: six/ten Quality: 4/ten Amusement 7/10 Replayable: v/x
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A curious oddity!!
I'k not exactly sure what kind of moving-picture show "Pot O' Gold" is. Information technology's a Jimmy Stewart movie, but it is definitely not the usual Jimmy Stewart moving picture. It's a musical, sort of. It's a romantic one-act, but not really. It is a fantasy film, merely so over again, it'south not. No, it is not possible to pigeon pigsty this motion picture.
That is what made information technology interesting to watch, for me. This was obviously a pretty low budget picture show, with all of the production costs going into the main musical number, "Broadway Caballero". In addition, the flick is all over the place. Comedy, Musical, Romance, Fantasy Sequence. All in a niggling 86 minute movie.
At that place's some really terrible interim, just Jimmy Stewart is terrific, and Paulette Goddard is pretty good. And both sing surprisingly well.
The plot isn't even worth going into, just know that in that location are huge holes in it, large enough to drive a truck through.
In many respects, information technology'south the worst Jimmy Stewart moving picture I've ever seen (and I remember reading that he thought information technology was the worst movie he ever made), especially since he had just won the Oscar a twelvemonth prior to this one, and however I could not stop watching information technology.
Only for those that are truly curious.
five out of 10
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No Pot Of Aureate
James Stewart plays James Haskel. A man that is trying to acquit on with his begetter's music shop. Times are difficult and business is calorie-free. Uncle Charlie has some other idea. Jimmy is the concluding of the Haskel family and Uncle Charlie would like his terminal relative to carry on his business organization. A unproblematic plot to first with. When James gives up the music business organization and reports for duty with uncle and so this film blows a flat note. James Stewart singing, dancing and playing the harmonica is a trivial hard to believe. Was Stewart really singing? I don't know for sure. A conceivable beginning just becomes so murky that this is definitely is Stewart's worst motion-picture show. The rest of the cast provides naught of whatsoever worth.
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