The Phantom President (1932)
September 23, 1932
Comedy, Music
1h 18m


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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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Norman Taurog
- Theodore K. Blair / Peter Varney George M. Cohan
- Felicia Hammond Claudette Colbert
- Curly Jimmy Durante
- Ronkton George Barbier
- Aikenhead Sidney Toler
- Senantor Scranton Louise Mackintosh
- Jerrido Jameson Thomas
- Announcer (uncredited) Hooper Atchley
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Keywords
- usa president
- mistaken identity
- medicine show
- election
- political campaign
- pre-code
- impersonation
- presidential candidate
- double
- political satire
- romantic entanglements
- satirical
- political conventions