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Mr. Lucky (1943) was a Comedy - Romance Film directed by H.C. Potter and produced by David Hempstead.

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Dorothy Bryant: But it's gambling!
Joe Adams aka Joe Bascopolous: [smiling] Not the way I do it.


Joe Adams aka Joe Bascopolous: Now watch this.
[rolls dice]
Joe Adams aka Joe Bascopolous: Seven.
Captain Veronica Steadman: How do you do it?
Joe Adams aka Joe Bascopolous: Influence. You bring me the right people, I'll get you that hundred thousand.
Captain Veronica Steadman: But it's gambling!
Joe Adams aka Joe Bascopolous: Not the way I do it.


Joe Adams aka Joe Bascopolous: Never Give a sucker an even break. But don't cheat a friend. I believe in that, I live by it. You don't think I'd play phony with you, well, you lost.
Captain Veronica Steadman: Oh but I didn't know the rules of the game.


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Laraine Day was on loan-out from MGM.
"Screen Director's Playhouse" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 20, 1950 with Cary Grant reprising his film role.
Writer Milton Holmes said that his story was inspired by a real 1936 event, where a nightclub owner staged a one-night gambling benefit at the Beverly Hills Hotel to raise $40,000 for a church. In his original story, the character of Joe dies at the end.
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