Public Deb No. 1

Public Deb No. 1
Public Deb No. 1
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Gregory Ratoff
Written by	Don Ettlinger ; Karl Tunberg ; Darrell Ware ;
Produced by	Darryl F. Zanuck
Starring	George Murphy ; Brenda Joyce ; Ralph Bellamy ;
Cinematography	Ernest Palmer
Edited by	Robert L. Simpson
Music by	David Buttolph ; Alfred Newman ;
Production; company	Twentieth Century Fox
Distributed by	Twentieth Century Fox
Release date	September 13, 1940;
Running time	79 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Last updated December 29, 2025

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]

Plot

A socialite is introduced to communism by her butler.^[2]

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.

External links

Public Deb No. 1 at IMDb

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[1] Dick p.270

[2] "Elsa Maxwell's Public Deb No. 1". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. afi.com.

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