There's One Born Every Minute (1942)

  • NR
  • 06/26/1942 (US)
  • Comedy
  • 1h

GYPS OFF THE OLD BLOCK!

Overview

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.

Harold Young

Director

Brenda Weisberg

Screenplay

Robert B. Hunt

Screenplay, Story

Cast

Hugh Herbert's headshot

Hugh Herbert

Lemuel P. Twine / Abner Twine / Colonel Cladius Zebediah Twine
Peggy Moran's headshot

Peggy Moran

Helen Barbara Twine
Tom Brown's headshot

Tom Brown

Jimmy Hanagan
Guy Kibbee's headshot

Guy Kibbee

Lester Cadwalader, Sr.
Catherine Doucet's headshot

Catherine Doucet

Minerva Twine
Edgar Kennedy's headshot

Edgar Kennedy

Mayor Moe Carson
Gus Schilling's headshot

Gus Schilling

Professor Asa Quisenberry
Elizabeth Taylor's headshot

Elizabeth Taylor

Gloria Twine

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