Cast & crew
Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
Directed by Gregory Ratoff Written by Don Ettlinger, Karl Tunberg, Darrell Ware
Cast
| Elsa Maxwell | Herself |
| Elisha Cook Jr. | Communist |
| Charles Tannen | Newsroom Reporter |
| Lee Shumway | Repulsed legionnaire |
| Joseph Marievsky | Chauffeur |
| Adia Kuznetzoff | |
| Ralph Dunn | Policeman |
| Alan Davis | Newsroom Reporter |
| Harry Depp | Grocery |
| Addison Richards | Sanford Jewison |
| Selmer Jackson | Lawyer |
| Douglas Wood | Sector Director |
| William Newell | Newsroom Reporter |
| Arthur Rankin | Newsroom Reporter |
| Adrian Morris | Security Guard |
| Billy Wayne | Photographer |
| Charles C. Wilson | Booking Sergeant |
| Milburn Stone | Newsroom Reporter |
| Alexis Tcherkasshy | Dimitri |
| George Murphy | Blake |
| Charles Ruggles | Milburn Drysdale |
| Stanley Taylor | Newsroom Reporter |
| Chester Clute | Car Dealer |
| John Wald | Announcer |
| Edward Cecil | Waiter |
| Charles Judels | Ivan or Psoltõ |
| Mary Gordon | 1954 Landlady |
| Margaret Armstrong | President Lindberg |
| Hobart Cavanaugh | Schlitz |
| Brenda Joyce | Penny |
| Luis Alberni | Frontenac |
| Ted Arkin | Sailor |
| John Dilson | Store Clerk |
| Don Forbes | Announcer |
| Hal K. Dawson | Layout Lingaraju |
| William Pawley | Repulsed legionnaire |
| Walter Bonn | Doorman |
| Joseph Crehan | Sector Director |
| Herman Bing | Maccus / Dutchman |
| George Dobbs | Photographer |
| Dick Rich | Repulsed legionnaire |
| Lillian Porter | Certified Check |
| Franklin Pangborn | Airport Bartender |
| Louise Lorimer | Mussburger's Secretary |
| Dorothy Roberts | Lady Beltham |
| Mischa Auer | Grisha |
| Lloyd Corrigan | Hugh Hefner |
| Ivan Lebedeff | Feodor |
| Paul Stanton | Sector Director |
| Robert Shaw | Newsroom Reporter |
| Maxie Rosenbloom | Eric Matthews |
| Ralph Bellamy | Fairchild |
| Kathryn Sheldon | |
| Berton Churchill | Bernard Judge |
Crew
| Darryl F. Zanuck | Producer |
| Ernest Palmer | Director of Photography |
| Don Ettlinger | Story |
| Rudolph Sternad | Art Direction |
| Karl Tunberg | Writer |
| Gregory Ratoff | Director |
| Robert L. Simpson | Editor |
| Darrell Ware | Writer |
| Richard Day | Art Direction |
| Thomas Little | Set Dressing Artist |
| Travis Banton | Costume Design |
| Karl Tunberg | Story |