Comedy ·Music · United States of America · 1932 · 1h 18m

The Phantom President

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Director
Norman Taurog
Cast
George M. Cohan as Theodore K. Blair / Peter Varney Claudette Colbert as Felicia Hammond Jimmy Durante as Curly George Barbier as Ronkton Sidney Toler as Aikenhead Louise Mackintosh as Senantor Scranton
Crew
David Abel — Director of Photography LeRoy Stone — Editor Walter DeLeon — Screenplay Harlan Thompson — Screenplay George F. Worts — Novel Travis Banton — Costume Design
Tagline

Vote the Laugh Ticket

Synopsis

Too bad for the 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. But as election eve approaches, the conspirators face the problem of what to do with Varney...who has difficult decisions of his own to make.

Mood & Themes
usa presidentmistaken identitymedicine showelectionpolitical campaignpre-codeimpersonationpresidential candidatedoublepolitical satireromantic entanglementssatirical
Key Collaborators
Norman Taurog Director David Abel Director of Photography LeRoy Stone Editor Walter DeLeon Screenplay Harlan Thompson Screenplay George F. Worts Novel Travis Banton Costume Design
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