Public Deb No. 1
Public Deb No. 1 | |
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Directed by | Gregory Ratoff |
Written by | |
Produced by | Darryl F. Zanuck |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Ernest Palmer |
Edited by | Robert L. Simpson |
Music by | |
Production company | Twentieth Century Fox |
Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox |
Release date | September 13, 1940 |
Running time | 79 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Public Deb No. 1 (or Elsa Maxwell's Public Deb No. 1) is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring George Murphy, Brenda Joyce and Ralph Bellamy.[1]
Plot[]
A socialite is introduced to communism by her butler.[2]
Partial cast[]
- George Murphy as Alan Blake
- Brenda Joyce as Penny Cooper
- Ralph Bellamy as Bruce Fairchild
- Elsa Maxwell as Herself
- Mischa Auer as Grisha
- Charles Ruggles as Milburn
- Maxie Rosenbloom as Eric
- Berton Churchill as Magistrate
- Franklin Pangborn as Bartender
- Hobart Cavanaugh as Mr. Schlitz
- Lloyd Corrigan as Hugh Stackett
- Ivan Lebedeff as Feodor
- Charles Judels as Ivan
- Elisha Cook Jr. as Communist
- Herman Bing as Dutchman
- Adrian Morris as Guard
Production[]
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Richard Day and Rudolph Sternad.
References[]
- ^ Dick p.270
- ^ "Elsa Maxwell's Public Deb No. 1". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. afi.com.
Bibliography[]
- Dick, Bernard F. The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film. University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
External links[]
Categories:
- English-language films
- 1940 films
- 1940 comedy films
- American films
- American comedy films
- Films directed by Gregory Ratoff
- 20th Century Fox films
- American black-and-white films
- 1940s comedy film stubs