Public Deb No. 1
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]
| Public Deb No. 1 | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Gregory Ratoff |
| Produced by | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Written by | Don Ettlinger Karl Tunberg Darrell Ware |
| Starring | George Murphy Brenda Joyce Ralph Bellamy |
| Music by | David Buttolph Alfred Newman |
| Cinematography | Ernest Palmer |
| Edited by | Robert L. Simpson |
Production company | Twentieth Century Fox |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox |
Release date | September 13, 1940 |
Running time | 79 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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
- Dick p.270
- "Elsa Maxwell's Public Deb No. 1". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. afi.com.
Bibliography
- Dick, Bernard F. The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film. University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
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