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Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosses find Blair's double: huckster Doc Varney. Of course, they scheme to make Varney T.K.'s public spokesman; at first, he even fools Blair's girlfriend Felicia, providing a romantic complication. As election eve approaches, the conspirators face the problem of what to do with Varney...who has difficult decisions of his own to make.
Keywords
usa president
mistaken identity
medicine show
election
political campaign
pre-code
impersonation
presidential candidate
double
political satire
romantic entanglements
satirical
political conventions
Casts

George M. Cohan
Theodore K. Blair / Peter Varney

Claudette Colbert
Felicia Hammond

Jimmy Durante
Curly

George Barbier
Ronkton

Sidney Toler
Aikenhead

Louise Mackintosh
Senantor Scranton

Jameson Thomas
Jerrido
Julius McVicker
Melrose

Hooper Atchley
Announcer (uncredited)

Ed Brady
Sailor (uncredited)

June Gittelson
Woman at Medicine Show (uncredited)
Ben Hall
Man at Medicine Show (uncredited)

Paul Hurst
Sailor (uncredited)

Edward LeSaint
Convention Chairman (uncredited)

Charles Middleton
Abe Lincoln (uncredited)

Frank Mills
Driver (uncredited)
Edmund Mortimer
Guest (uncredited)

Alan Mowbray
George Washington (uncredited)

Tom Ricketts
Old Man (uncredited)

Frank Sheridan
Candidate (uncredited)

Jerry Tucker
Catcher (uncredited)
Crews

Norman Taurog
Director

John Leipold
Music
LeRoy Stone
Editor
David Abel
Director of Photography
Gene Merritt
Sound

Travis Banton
Costume Design
George F. Worts
Novel
Walter DeLeon
Screenplay
Harlan Thompson
Screenplay

George M. Cohan
Songs

Richard Rodgers
Songs

Lorenz Hart
Songs
Irving Lippman
Still Photographer

Ernest Laszlo
Camera Operator

Edward Dmytryk
Assistant Editor
Backdrops & Posters
