The Winning Ticket

The Winning Ticket
Directed by	Charles Reisner
Screenplay by	Ralph Spence Richard Schayer
Story by	Robert Pirosh George Seaton
Produced by	Jack Cummings
Starring	Leo Carrillo Louise Fazenda Ted Healy
Cinematography	Charles Clarke
Edited by	Hugh Wynn
Music by	Herbert Stothart Charles Maxwell (uncredited)
Production company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	February 8, 1935 (1935-02-08)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Winning Ticket is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and starring Leo Carrillo, Louise Fazenda, and Ted Healy. It was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.^[1]

Poor Italian-American barber Joe Thomasello purchases a sweepstakes ticket at the urging of his brother-in-law Eddie Dugan. Joe's wife Nora is against gambling. The ticket turns out to be a $150,000 first prize winner. Joe remembers that he gave the ticket to his lawyer Tony to hold. The three men realize that Joe's baby, Mickey was the last one seen with the ticket. When they ask the baby where the ticket is, the baby points to a loose board on the floor. The three men tear up the floor and dig a hole looking for the lost ticket to no avail. Tony, who has huge debts decides that the best thing to do is go to Ireland by boat and try to convince the sweepstakes officials that Joe was the actual sweepstakes winner.

Eddie has a fear of ships and is tricked by the other men into making the voyage. All the men are eventually kicked off the ship when Eddie is accused of being a stowaway. After this, the men witness baby Mickey stuffing paper into the mouth of one of his father's many ceramic parrots, which leads them to believe the baby had put the winning ticket into one of the birds. Mr. Powers has the men arrested after they destroy some of his ceramic birds. Nora, with baby Mickey visit Joe in jail and they present him with his guitar to help him pass the time. Nora and Joe end up in an argument and the guitar gets broken over Joe's head which exposes the winning ticket which was put into the guitar by Mickey earlier.

• Leo Carrillo as Joe Tomasello
• Louise Fazenda as Nora Tomasello
• Ted Healy as Eddie Dugan
• Irene Hervey as Mary Tomasello
• James Ellison as Jimmy
• Luis Alberni as Tony
• Purnell Pratt as Mr. Powers
• Akim Tamiroff as Giuseppe
• Betty Jane Graham as Noreen Tomasello
• Billy Watson as Joey Tomasello Jr.
• John Indrisano as Lefty Costello
• Roland Fitzpatrick as Mickey Tomasello
• Clara Blandick as Aunt Maggie
• Sam Flint as Captain (uncredited)
• Al Hill as Bookie (uncredited)
• Wilbur Mack as Banker (uncredited)
• Frank Moran as Bartender (uncredited)
• Lee Phelps as Bookmaker (uncredited)
• C. Montague Shaw as President of Insurance Company (uncredited)
• William Stack as Jeffries (uncredited)
• Larry Steers as Traveler (uncredited)
• Clarence Wilson as Dolan (uncredited)

• Cedric Gibbons – art director
• David Townsend – associate art director
• Edwin B. Willis – associate art director
• William Axt – composer: stock music (uncredited)
• Douglas Shearer – recording director
• Charles Reisner – co-producer

• The Winning Ticket at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• The Winning Ticket at IMDb
• The Winning Ticket at the TCM Movie Database