There's One Born Every Minute

7.2
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Run time: 60 min
  • Premiere: 1942. June 26.

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.

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Hugh Herbert

Lemuel P. Twine / Abner Twine / Colonel Cladius Zebediah Twine

Peggy Moran

Helen Barbara Twine

Tom Brown

Jimmy Hanagan

Guy Kibbee

Lester Cadwalader, Sr.

Catherine Doucet

Minerva Twine

Edgar Kennedy

Mayor Moe Carson

Gus Schilling

Professor Asa Quisenberry

Elizabeth Taylor

Gloria Twine

Charles Halton

Trumbull

Renie Riano

Miss Aphrodite Phipps

Carl Switzer

Junior Twine

Mel Ruick

Radio Announcer

Harlan Briggs

Luke Simpson

Ralph Brooks

Man at the Meeting

Barbara Brown

Club Woman

Bess Flowers

Luncheon Attendee

Jack Gardner

Reporter

Eddie Hall

Man in Ice Cream Parlor Trying to Stop the Fight

Vinton Hayworth

Photographer

Nell O'Day

Antoinette

Ted Oliver

Reporter

Frankie Van

Busboy in Brawl

Claire Whitney

Mrs. Barstow

Art

Jack Otterson

Art Direction

Russell A. Gausman

Set Decoration

Camera

John W. Boyle

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Vera West

Costume Design

Directing

Harold Young

Director

Editing

Production

Ken Goldsmith

Associate Producer

Sound

Frank Skinner

Original Music Composer

Writing

Brenda Weisberg

Screenplay

Robert B. Hunt

Screenplay

Art

Jack Otterson

Art Direction

Russell A. Gausman

Set Decoration

Camera

John W. Boyle

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Vera West

Costume Design

Directing

Harold Young

Director

Editing

Production

Ken Goldsmith

Associate Producer

Sound

Frank Skinner

Original Music Composer

Writing

Brenda Weisberg

Screenplay

Robert B. Hunt

Screenplay