Public Deb No. 1

{{Infobox film

| name = Public Deb No. 1

| image = Public Deb No. 1 - movieposter.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = Gregory Ratoff

| producer = Darryl F. Zanuck

| writer = {{ubl|Don Ettlinger|Karl Tunberg|Darrell Ware}}

| narrator =

| starring = {{ubl|George Murphy|Brenda Joyce|Ralph Bellamy}}

| music = {{ubl|David Buttolph|Alfred Newman}}

| cinematography = Ernest Palmer

| editing = Robert L. Simpson

| studio = Twentieth Century Fox

| distributor = Twentieth Century Fox

| released = {{Film date|1940|09|13}}

| runtime = 79 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

}}

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.Dick p.270

Plot

A socialite is introduced to communism by her butler.{{cite web|title=Elsa Maxwell's Public Deb No. 1|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=936|website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films|publisher=afi.com}}

Partial cast

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Production

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Richard Day and Rudolph Sternad.

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Bibliography

  • Dick, Bernard F. The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film. University Press of Kentucky, 2015.