Public Deb No. 1

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]

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 (1940-09-13)
Running time	79 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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.