The Phantom President
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.
- genus: Comedy, Music
- Studio: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Publix Corp.
- keyword: usa president, mistaken identity, medicine show, election, political campaign, pre-code, impersonation, presidential candidate, double, political satire, romantic entanglements, satirical, political conventions
- cast: George M. Cohan, Claudette Colbert, Jimmy Durante, George Barbier, Sidney Toler, Louise Mackintosh
