There's One Born Every Minute (1942)

There's One Born Every Minute

1942

Comedy

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Harold Young

Cast

Catherine Doucet as Minerva Twine

Charles Halton as Trumbull

Edgar Kennedy as Mayor Moe Carson

Elizabeth Taylor as Gloria Twine

Gus Schilling as Professor Asa Quisenberry

Guy Kibbee as Lester Cadwalader, Sr.

Hugh Herbert as Lemuel P. Twine / Abner Twine / Colonel Cladius Zebediah Twine

Peggy Moran as Helen Barbara Twine