There's One Born Every Minute (1942)
GYPS OFF THE OLD BLOCK!
60 min
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.
- Release date
- June 26, 1942
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Hugh Herbert as Lemuel P. Twine
- Hugh Herbert as Abner Twine
- Hugh Herbert as 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
- William Henry as Lester Cadwalader Jr.
- Gus Schilling as Professor Asa Quisenberry
- Elizabeth Taylor as Gloria Twine
- Charles Halton as Trumbull
Crew
- Harold Young · Director
- Robert B. Hunt · Writer
- Brenda Weisberg · Writer
- John W. Boyle · Cinematographer
- Maurice Wright · Editor