Comedy
Public Deb No. 1
“Howlingly hilarious...as her penniless boy friend smacks some sense into her!”
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.
Directed by Gregory Ratoff
49
User score
5 votes
Status
Released
Released
September 13, 1940
Runtime
1h 19m
Language
English
Top cast
George Murphy
Alan Blake
Brenda Joyce
Penny Cooper
Charles Ruggles
Milburn
Ralph Bellamy
Bruce Fairchild
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
Ted Arkin
Sailor
Margaret Armstrong
President
Herman Bing
Dutchman
