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"A go-getter clerk in a coffee company is fooled into thinking he has won a $25,000 prize for inventing a sales slogan and goes on a shopping binge."@en
"When a clerk in a coffee company is fooled into thinking he has won $25,000 in a contest, he and his girlfriend go on a spending spree. When they discover the joke, they rush to return things."
"Hope springs eternal when an office clerk (Dick Powell) mistakenly believes he's won a coffee slogan challenge and spends the 'prize money'."@en
""Hope springs eternal when an office clerk (Dick Powell) mistakenly believes he's won a coffee slogan challenge and spends the 'prize money.'""@en
"Jimmy McDonald, empleado de la Compañía Cafetera Baxter, se niega a casarse con su novia, Betty Casey, hasta que no haya prosperado. Para ver cumplido su sueño, Jimmy, al que le encanta participar en concursos, envía un lema al concurso de la Compañía Cafetera Maxford. Tres de sus amigos deciden gastarle una broma y le mandan un telegrama diciéndole que ha ganado los 25.000 dólares del primer premio. Jimmy, Betty y toda la oficina empiezan a celebrarlo. El señor Baxter piensa que las ideas de Jimmy deben ser buenas y le asciende al departamento de publicidad. Pero aparece el señor Maxford y denuncia a Jimmy."
"This madcap 1940 Preston Sturges masterpiece stars Dick Powell as a go-getter clerk in a coffee company who's fooled into thinking he's won a $25,000 prize for inventing a sales slogan."@en
"Dick Powell is an ambitious clerk in a coffee company who's fooled into thinking he's won a $25,000 prize for inventing a sales slogan. He and his girlfriend go on a mammoth Christmas shopping binge, even though it's the middle of July."@en
"Trois collègues de travail font croire à un doux rêveur qu'il a gagné 25 000 dollars à un concours de slogans organisé par une marque de café. Comédie de moeurs avec un soupçon de satire sociale sur le capitalisme, avec la Grande dépression des années 1930 en toile de fond."
"Dick Powell stars as a go-getter clerk in a coffee company who's fooled into thinking he's won a $25,000 prize for inventing a sales slogan. When some practical jokers send him a congratulatory telegram, he and his girlfriend (Drew) go on a huge Christmas shopping spree even though it is the middle of July."@en
"A go-getter clerk in a coffee company is fooled into thinking he has won a $25,000 prize for inventing a sales slogan and goes on a shopping spree."@en
""Jimmy MacDonald, a twenty-dollar-a-week clerk at the Baxter Coffee Company, refuses to marry his sweetheart, Betty Casey, until he prospers. To realize his dream, Jimmy, an inveterate contest entrant, submits a slogan to the Maxford Coffee Contest: 'If you can't sleep at night, it's not the coffee, it's the bunk.' The winner of the contest is supposed to be announced on Maxford's radio program, but when Bildocker, one of the jury contest members, deadlocks the vote by refusing to go along with the slogan selected by the other twelve members, the program has to end without revealing the winning slogan. The next day, three of Jimmy's friends, Tom, Dick and Harry, decide to play a practical joke on him by making up a phony telegram informing him that he has won the $25,000 first prize. When the telegram is delivered to Jimmy's desk at work, Jimmy, Betty and the entire office start to celebrate, and before his friends can tell him that the telegram is just a prank, Jimmy telephones his mother with the good news. Mr. Baxter, thinking that Jimmy's ideas must be good, promotes him to the advertising department. Because the telegram has instructed Jimmy to go to the Maxford company to pick up his prize, Jimmy and Betty innocently go to the office of Dr. Maxford, the head of the company. Because Maxford is frustrated and angry that no winner was selected in time for the broadcast and can't reach any of the contest jurors by telephone, he thinks that Jimmy's slogan was selected as the winner and signs the first prize check. Jimmy then goes to a department store where he uses the check as collateral to buy Betty an engagement ring, his mother a fancy new Devanola couch and gifts for everyone on their block. Jimmy and Betty think that their troubles are at an end, as the entire neighborhood celebrates their good fortune, but meanwhile, Maxford discovers his mistake and stops payment on the check. Everyone's 'Christmas in July' celebration is interrupted when representatives from the department store arrive to reclaim their merchandise and Maxford appears, tears up his check and denounces Jimmy. The department store decides to let the neighbors keep their gifts and blames everything on Maxford and a near riot erupts. As Jimmy is comforted by Betty, Tom, Dick and Harry arrive, carrying a broken-down couch for Jimmy's mother, which they remorsefully offer as an apology for the prank. Jimmy's downfall appears complete when he goes back to Baxter's to see the new office which has been prepared for him and Baxter threatens to demote him, but Betty convinces him to give Jimmy a chance. As they go home, Jimmy admits that he only had confidence in himself because he won the contest and does not know if he can do a good job in the ad department. Just at that moment, however, Bildocker rushes into Maxford's office and announces that he finally has convinced the rest of the contest jury to admit that his favorite slogan should be the winner. Bildocker then reads the winning entry: 'If you can't sleep at night, it's not the coffee, it's the bunk.' As Maxford screams, Bildocker expresses his admiration for the slogan and says that they just sent a telegram to the winner, Jimmy MacDonald"--AFI catalog, 1931-1940."@en
"Jimmy MacDonald est un doux rêveur qui simagine déjà avoir gagné la somme de 25.000 dollars à un concours de slogans organisé par une marque de café. Trois de ses collègues de travail lui font une farce dun fort mauvais goût, en envoyant un télégramme lui annonçant être le fameux gagnant."
""Jimmy MacDonald est un doux rêveur qui s'imagine déjà avoir gagné la somme de 25.000 dollars à un concours de slogans organisé par une marque de café. Trois de ses collègues de travail lui font une farce d'un fort mauvais goût, en envoyant un télégramme lui annonçant être le fameux gagnant..."
"A go-getter clerk in a coffee company, is fooled into thinking he's won a $25,000 prize for inventing a sales slogan. When a trio of practical jokers at Maxford Coffee send him a phony congratulatory telegram announcing that he's the contest winner, he and his girlfriend go off on a mammoth Christmas shopping binge, even though it's the middle of July. Suddenly, the head of Maxford Coffee discovers the mistake, and their spending spree turns into a wild slapstick riot."