There's One Born Every Minute (1942) on Netflix
Minerva Twine pushes her pudding-maker husband Lemuel into the mayor's race. Backer Lester Cadwalader Sr. wants Mayor Moe Carson re-elected. Helen's ex-boyfriend Jimmy Hanagan is back in town.
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Plot summary
Lemuel P. Twine makes pudding at his company in Witumpka Falls, California, with his wife Minerva and their children, the teenage Helen Barbara, Lem Junior and young Gloria. Minerva pushes Lem to run for mayor as a reform candidate. Lem does not know that his backer, the businessman Lester Cadwalader Sr., wants the current mayor, Moe Carson, to keep his office. Heading to a game of golf with Cadwalader's son Les, Helen nearly runs over Jimmy Hanagan, an old boyfriend just home from college. Jimmy found no advertising job and clerks in Cadwalader's store until Les, jealous, has him fired. Hired to advertise the pudding, Jimmy invents a claim that it contains Vitamin Z and persuades Professor Asa Quisenberry to announce the find to reporters.
Cast
- Mel Ruickas Radio Announcer(Melville Ruick)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about There's One Born Every Minute (1942)
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- The 1942 comedy There's One Born Every Minute, directed by Harold Young, was Elizabeth Taylor's film debut and one of only a few films she made for Universal Pictures.
