“Fancy Pants” is a comedy film where Bob Hope plays a bad actor who cannot keep a role, but is hired by Lucille Ball’s parents to play an English butler in their home to impress friends and neighbors. Complications arise when everyone assumes that Hope is her fiance, all in the midst of a visit by the President of the United States. This engaging comedy was well-directed by George Marshall (“The Ghost Breakers” 1940) from a screenplay by Edmund L. Hartmann and Robert O’Brien.
The supporting cast includes Jack Kirkwood and Lea Penman as Lucy’s parents, John Alexander as Teddy Roosevelt, Bruce Cabot, Hugh French, Eric Blore, Joseph Vitale, Nora Varden, Virginia Keiley, Colin Keith-Johnson, Joe Wong, and Olaf Hytten. The watchable “Fancy Pants,” filmed in Technicolor, was popular in theatrical release by Paramount Pictures. The was the second of four Bob Hope-Lucille Ball movie collaborations.
Fancy Pants (1950)
cinema
My Review
“Fancy Pants” is a comedy film where Bob Hope plays a bad actor who cannot keep a role, but is hired by Lucille Ball’s parents to play an English butler in their home to impress friends and neighbors. Complications arise when everyone assumes that Hope is her fiance, all in the midst of a visit by the President of the United States. This engaging comedy was well-directed by George Marshall (“The Ghost Breakers” 1940) from a screenplay by Edmund L. Hartmann and Robert O’Brien.
The supporting cast includes Jack Kirkwood and Lea Penman as Lucy’s parents, John Alexander as Teddy Roosevelt, Bruce Cabot, Hugh French, Eric Blore, Joseph Vitale, Nora Varden, Virginia Keiley, Colin Keith-Johnson, Joe Wong, and Olaf Hytten. The watchable “Fancy Pants,” filmed in Technicolor, was popular in theatrical release by Paramount Pictures. The was the second of four Bob Hope-Lucille Ball movie collaborations.