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Public Deb No. 1 poster

Public Deb No. 1(1940)

NRSeptember 13, 19401h 19m

49%User score 49 percent

User Score

5 votes

Howlingly hilarious...as her penniless boy friend smacks some sense into her!

Overview

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.

Director: Gregory Ratoff
Writers: Karl Tunberg, Darrell Ware, Don Ettlinger

Top Billed Cast

George Murphy
Alan Blake
Brenda Joyce
Penny Cooper
Charles Ruggles
Milburn
Ralph Bellamy
Bruce Fairchild

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Public Deb No. 1 (1940) | Watch Free Online Movies

Mischa Auer

Grisha

Elsa Maxwell

Herself

Lloyd Corrigan

Hugh Stackett

Franklin Pangborn

Bartender

Maxie Rosenbloom

Eric

Berton Churchill

Judge

Ivan Lebedeff

Feodor

Elisha Cook Jr.

Communist

Hobart Cavanaugh

Mr. Schlitz

Mary Gordon

Landlady

Chester Clute

Car Payment Man

Charles Judels

Ivan

Luis Alberni

Frontenac

Margaret Armstrong

President

Herman Bing

Dutchman

Joseph Crehan

Director

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Facts

Status: Released
Original title: Public Deb No. 1
Original language: English
Production: 20th Century Fox

Keywords

spanking
communist rally