Word: jackpot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jackpot (book by Guy Bolton, Sidney Sheldon & Ben Roberts; music & lyrics by Vernon Duke & Howard Dietz; produced by Vinton Freedley) is a large-scale musical that ran to telephone figures and adds up to zero. Considering how many smart people are involved in it, Jackpot seems almost like a conspiracy of dullness...
...Jackpot tells of a beautiful girl (Nanette Fabray) who agrees to marry the winner of a huge War Bond raffle. The winner is three Marines, and it takes many dreary double-entendres and much dreary horse play to get two of them...
...journey into average British boyhood. In the next five years, the sales of three more boysome novels made Pip into a mere squeak. Author Hay gave up teaching for writing. His most successful novels: A Knight on Wheels, A Man's Man, A Safety Match. He hit the jackpot again with Britain's popular melofarce, Tilly of Bloomsbury...
Best bit: C. Aubrey Smith, as a Mayfair clergyman, cheerfully commenting on the death of a rich old lady who has left him the jackpot: "Very sad, very...
Book-of-the-Month is the biggest jackpot an author and his publisher can hit (an average of $75,000 to split between them, plus larger sales in bookstores). Book-of-the-Month Club authors include Pearl Buck, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Gather...