A presidential candidate is deemed to have a dull personality, thus a charismatic look-alike is hired as a front.A presidential candidate is deemed to have a dull personality, thus a charismatic look-alike is hired as a front.A presidential candidate is deemed to have a dull personality, thus a charismatic look-alike is hired as a front.
Hooper Atchley
- Announcer
- (uncredited)
June Gittelson
- Woman in Medicine Show
- (uncredited)
Ben Hall
- Man in Medicine Show Audience
- (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)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe portraits that provide a prologue for the movie and sing about the problems of the country during the Depression are of the same four presidents (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt) that are on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota that was being carved at the time this movie was released.
- GoofsThe Universal Vault Series DVD defaults to 16:9 creating a squashed image. It can be manually adjusted to 4:3, however.
- Quotes
Prof. Aikenhead: Blair lacks political charm. Blair has no flair for savoir faire.
- SoundtracksPHANTOM PRESIDENT PRELUDE
Written by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Sung and chanted by uncredited players
Featured review
Patently Paramount, a very entertaining movie!
All the actors sparkle here, even Durante (who killed more than one MGM feature in his day) is a riot. Colbert is dazzling in every scene, even while bathing a dog. Cohan is fresh and fun, too bad he didn't make any other talkies. This production wreaks of Paramount, right down to the Lubitch touches of rhyming dialogue and animals delivering a musical number laced with sexual innuendo. In one instance the camera dissolves from the back side of a jackass to the keynote speaker of the Presidential convention; some things never change and it's still fresh!
Will Hays would have had a lot to say about this production if he could have gotten his hands on it.... :)
Will Hays would have had a lot to say about this production if he could have gotten his hands on it.... :)
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- nlangdon
- Mar 9, 2001
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- Runtime1 hour 18 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The Phantom President (1932) officially released in Canada in English?
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