Public Deb No. 1
1940 American film
- Don Ettlinger
- Karl Tunberg
- Darrell Ware
- George Murphy
- Brenda Joyce
- Ralph Bellamy
- David Buttolph
- Alfred Newman
Production
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Twentieth Century Fox
Release date
- September 13, 1940 (1940-09-13)
Running time
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
Bibliography
- Dick, Bernard F. The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film. University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
External links
- Public Deb No. 1 at IMDb
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Films directed by Gregory Ratoff
- Sins of Man (1936)
- Lancer Spy (1937)
- Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
- Rose of Washington Square (1939)
- Hotel for Women (1939)
- Intermezzo (1939)
- Day-Time Wife (1939)
- Barricade (1939)
- I Was an Adventuress (1940)
- Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
- Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
- The Corsican Brothers (1941)
- The Men in Her Life (1941)
- Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942)
- Footlight Serenade (1942)
- Something to Shout About (1943)
- The Heat's On (1943)
- Song of Russia (1944)
- Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944)
- Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)
- Paris Underground (1945)
- Do You Love Me (1946)
- Carnival in Costa Rica (1947)
- Moss Rose (1947)
- That Dangerous Age (1949)
- Black Magic (1949)
- My Daughter Joy (1950)
- Taxi (1953)
- Abdulla the Great (1955)
- Oscar Wilde (1960)
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