There's One Born Every Minute (1942)

A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales gimmick, the pudding magnate advertises that his product contains the highly nutritious "Vitamin Z." He suddenly begins selling pudding like crazy and soon his political campaign is well-funded. Unfortunately, there is no "Vitamin Z" and when this is discovered, the town fathers try to dump him and show that he is a fake.
- Released
- 1942-06-26
- Genres
- Comedy
- Runtime
- 60 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Harold Young, Brenda Weisberg, Robert B. Hunt
- TMDB rating
- 7.9/10 from 4 votes
Cast
- Hugh Herbert as Lemuel P. Twine / Abner Twine / Colonel Cladius Zebediah Twine
- Peggy Moran as Helen Barbara Twine
- Tom Brown as Jimmy Hanagan
- Guy Kibbee as Lester Cadwalader, Sr.
- Catherine Doucet as Minerva Twine
- Edgar Kennedy as Mayor Moe Carson
- Gus Schilling as Professor Asa Quisenberry
- Elizabeth Taylor as Gloria Twine
- Charles Halton as Trumbull
- Renie Riano as Miss Aphrodite Phipps
- Carl Switzer as Junior Twine
- Mel Ruick as Radio Announcer
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