Word: jackpots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jackpot. This week there remained some hesitancy about The Question's staying power. Can it ever, for example, get contestants to go for the full $64,000? Nonetheless, there was a familiar sound in the air-the sheeplike rustle of competitors rushing to get similar shows on the TV screens. Mutual Broadcasting System headquarters buzzed with talk about a quiz show with a jackpot of $250,000. All that is needed, confided Mutual's Pressagent Frank Zuzulo, is a group of three sponsors to finance it. An independent TV packager is reported canvassing the networks with a proposal...
...would answer the $8,000, $16,000 and $32,000 questions. Then she serenely added: "And I am a little confident that I can answer the $64,000 question." The studio audience exploded into wild, sustained applause, certain that Grandma Kreitzer had decided to risk her winnings for the jackpot. "But," she continued as the applause died down, "I am balancing that confidence with a quotation from Ephesians, 'Let your moderation be known unto all men.' So I'm going to let my moderation be known and accept...
With Kitty Foyle, Author Christopher Morley hit a novelist's jackpot: a bestseller and a Class A movie. It was that familiar, marketable love story of the 30s about a poor working girl (25% Irish) and a Philadelphia scion (seventh-generation Main Line). The well-paced narrative (girl meets boy, girl gets boy, boy does not marry girl) was not helped by the predictability of the incidents nor the faded charm of slick writing about young love. On TV, Kitty was just an old-fashioned tearjerker with not enough strength left to jerk the tears...
Consoling Cadillac. To carry home the staggering jackpot from The $64,000 Question (Tues. 10 p.m., CBS), the contestant must correctly answer eleven questions spread over four weeks. The first week he can win $8,000. Then he has a week to decide whether he will risk it all for $16,000. If he wins, he has another week to worry about whether he will go for $32,000. If he wins that, he has still another week of anguished self-examination. Should he quit with his $32,000? Or, with the help of any expert he chooses, should...
...week before the first show was televised, 14,000 people, hopefully eying the jackpot, had begged to be contestants. The lucky two chosen for the first show: Mrs. Thelma Bennett, a pretty housewife from Trenton, N.J. who is an expert on the movies, and Redmond O'Hanlon, a New York cop, who has five children and a wide knowledge of Shakespeare. Mrs. Bennett missed out on the $8,000 (the question: Name the Columbia movie which won almost all the 1934 Oscars, its stars and its director*), but was sent home with a nice consolation prize...