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2 unusual facts about The Jackpot


The Jackpot

A radio adaptation, broadcast April 26, 1951 on NBC's Screen Directors Playhouse, received much press coverage because Stewart's co-star was Margaret Truman, making her debut as a radio actress for a fee of $2,500.

Answering a phone call, he wins $24,000 worth of merchandise from a radio quiz program and is overwhelmed by prizes which range from the useful to the absurd, including a side of beef, 7,500 cans of soup, 1,000 fruit trees, a Palomino pony, a portable swimming pool, a diamond ring, a French maid, an interior decorator (Alan Mowbray) and portrait painter Hilda Jones (Patricia Medina).



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Ana Guevara

In 2002, she won all seven competitions of 400m of the Golden League (Oslo, Paris, Rome, Monaco, Zurich, Brussels and Berlin) sharing the jackpot of one million dollars in gold bars with three athletes.

Holidae In

Also in the video is a man set to look like Tupac, and one of the three in the front of the Jackpot Inn sign wears a shirt that parodies the Holiday Inn logo featuring the band's name and another wearing a shirt that parodies The Home Depot logo as "The Ho Depot".