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Fancy Pants (1950)

e Livre 1950-07-19 (US) Music, Comedy, Western 1h 32m

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Bob tames that "Wildcat" Gal!

Overview

An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The complications increase when the town believes the actor/butler to be an earl and President Roosevelt decides to pay a visit.

George Marshall

Director
Edmund L. Hartmann

Screenplay
Robert O'Brien

Screenplay
Harry Leon Wilson

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Bob Hope

Humphrey / Arthur Tyler
Lucille Ball

Agatha Floud
Bruce Cabot

Cart Belknap
Jack Kirkwood

Mike Floud
Lea Penman

Effie Floud
Hugh French

George Van Basingwell
Eric Blore

Lionel Boswell / Sir Wimbley
Joseph Vitale

Wampum
John Alexander

Teddy Roosevelt
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A review by John Chard

70%

Written by John Chard on September 2, 2019

Hey fancy pants-you're a pussyfooting critter.

Fancy Pants is directed by George Marshall and adapted from the Harry Leon Wilson story by Edmund L. Hartmann & Robert O'Brien. It stars Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Bruce Cabot, Jack Kirkwood and Lea Penman. A Technicolor production, it's scored by Van Cleave and cinematography is by Charles Lang. Plot is a reworking of Ruggles of Red Gap, which was made into a successful film in 1935, directed by Leo McCarey and starring Charles Laughton. This take finds Bob Hope as a low grade American stage actor who gets hired by a Western family in the hope th... read the rest.

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