There's One Born Every Minute

There's One Born Every Minute

60 mins | Comedy | June 26, 1942

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.

There's One Born Every Minute

60 mins | Comedy | June 26, 1942

There's One Born Every Minute
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.
IMDb rating 5.6
Producers Universal Pictures
Original title There's One Born Every Minute
Directors Harold Young
Writers Robert B. Hunt, Brenda Weisberg

Cast

Hugh Herbert

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

Peggy Moran

as Helen Barbara Twine

Tom Brown

as Jimmy Hanagan

Guy Kibbee

as Lester Cadwalader, Sr.

Catherine Doucet

as Minerva Twine

Edgar Kennedy

as Mayor Moe Carson

Gus Schilling

as Professor Asa Quisenberry

Elizabeth Taylor

as Gloria Twine

Charles Halton

as Trumbull

Renie Riano

as Miss Aphrodite Phipps

Carl Switzer

as Junior Twine

Mel Ruick

as Radio Announcer

Maude Eburne

as Agatha

Harlan Briggs

as Luke Simpson

Ralph Brooks

as Man at the Meeting

Barbara Brown

as Club Woman

Bess Flowers

as Luncheon Attendee

Jack Gardner

as Reporter

Eddie Hall

as Man in Ice Cream Parlor Trying to Stop the Fight

Vinton Hayworth

as Photographer

Nell O'Day

as Antoinette

Ted Oliver

as Reporter

Frankie Van

as Busboy in Brawl

Claire Whitney

as Mrs. Barstow