The Phantom President

5.5
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Run time: 78 min
  • Premiere: 1932. September 23.

Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosses find Blair's double: huckster Doc Varney. Of course, they scheme to make Varney T.K.'s public spokesman; at first, he even fools Blair's girlfriend Felicia, providing a romantic complication. As election eve approaches, the conspirators face the problem of what to do with Varney...who has difficult decisions of his own to make.

Discover

George M. Cohan

Theodore K. Blair / Peter Varney

Claudette Colbert

Felicia Hammond

Sidney Toler

Aikenhead

Louise Mackintosh

Senantor Scranton

Hooper Atchley

Announcer (uncredited)

Ed Brady

Sailor (uncredited)

June Gittelson

Woman at Medicine Show (uncredited)

Ben Hall

Man at Medicine Show (uncredited)

Paul Hurst

Sailor (uncredited)

Edward LeSaint

Convention Chairman (uncredited)

Charles Middleton

Abe Lincoln (uncredited)

Frank Mills

Driver (uncredited)

Edmund Mortimer

Guest (uncredited)

Alan Mowbray

George Washington (uncredited)

Tom Ricketts

Old Man (uncredited)

Frank Sheridan

Candidate (uncredited)

Jerry Tucker

Catcher (uncredited)

Camera

David Abel

Director of Photography

Irving Lippman

Still Photographer

Ernest Laszlo

Camera Operator

Costume & Make-Up

Travis Banton

Costume Design

Directing

Norman Taurog

Director

Editing

LeRoy Stone

Editor

Edward Dmytryk

Assistant Editor

Writing

Walter DeLeon

Screenplay

Harlan Thompson

Screenplay

Camera

David Abel

Director of Photography

Irving Lippman

Still Photographer

Ernest Laszlo

Camera Operator

Costume & Make-Up

Travis Banton

Costume Design

Directing

Norman Taurog

Director

Editing

LeRoy Stone

Editor

Edward Dmytryk

Assistant Editor

Writing

Walter DeLeon

Screenplay

Harlan Thompson

Screenplay