There's One Born Every Minute (1942)
1h
Running Time
June 26, 1942Release Date
There's One Born Every Minute (1942)
1h
Running Time
June 26, 1942Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Hugh Herbert
Lemuel P. Twine / Abner Twine / Colonel Cladius Zebediah Twine
Peggy Moran
Helen Barbara Twine
Tom Brown
Jimmy Hanagan
Catherine Doucet
Minerva Twine
Guy Kibbee
Lester Cadwalader, Sr.
Edgar Kennedy
Mayor Moe Carson
Harold Young
Director
Robert B. Hunt
Writer
Gus Schilling
Professor Asa Quisenberry
Brenda Weisberg
Writer
Elizabeth Taylor
Gloria Twine
John W. Boyle
Cinematographer
Charles Halton
Trumbull
Maurice Wright
Editor
Renie Riano
Miss Aphrodite Phipps
Carl Switzer
Junior Twine
Mel Ruick
Radio Announcer
Maude Eburne
Agatha
Harlan Briggs
Luke Simpson
Ralph Brooks
Man at the Meeting
Barbara Brown
Club Woman
Bess Flowers
Luncheon Attendee
Jack Gardner
Reporter
Eddie Hall
Man in Ice Cream Parlor Trying to Stop the Fight
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There's One Born Every Minute, also known as Man or Mouse, is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Harold Young. It was Elizabeth Taylor's first film and one of her only films with Universal Pictures.The film is a comedy about false advertising. The Twine family profits from marketing their puddings as containing the fantastic Vitamin Z, with the press failing to realize that this vitamin does not exist. A local scientist is persuaded to act as a shill for their product.