

A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales gimmick, the pudding magnate advertises that his product contains the highly nutritious "Vitamin Z." He suddenly begins selling pudding like crazy and soon his political campaign is well-funded. Unfortunately, there is no "Vitamin Z" and when this is discovered, the town fathers try to dump him and show that he is a fake.
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Cast

Hugh Herbert
Lemuel P. Twine / Abner Twine / Colonel Cladius Zebediah Twine

Peggy Moran
Helen Barbara Twine

Tom Brown
Jimmy Hanagan

Guy Kibbee
Lester Cadwalader, Sr.

Catherine Doucet
Minerva Twine

Edgar Kennedy
Mayor Moe Carson

Gus Schilling
Professor Asa Quisenberry

Elizabeth Taylor
Gloria Twine

Charles Halton
Trumbull

Renie Riano
Miss Aphrodite Phipps

Carl Switzer
Junior Twine
Mel Ruick
Radio Announcer
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