Fancy Pants
A British actor attempts to impress two visiting American women, Efflie Floud and her tomboyish daughter, Agatha (Ball), by having the cast of his drawing-room comedy pose as his aristocratic family. Effie persuades the 'butler', Humphrey (Hope), really a struggling American actor named Arthur Tyler, to accompany them to the United States and help to refine both her husband and daughter. She sends a telegram home, referring to the person she believes is Humphrey as a "gentleman's gentleman", which the rural western townfolk misunderstand as meaning he is an aristocrat and presumably the future husband of Agatha. Arthur must now pretend to the family that he is this British butler while pretending to the rest of the town, and the visiting President Theodore Roosevelt that he is a politically savvy Englishman.
MPAA Rating: | NR |
Genre: | Comedy, Musical, Western |
Country: | United States |
Produced By: | Robert L. Welch |
Directed By: | George Marshall |
Written By: | Edmund L. Hartmann, Barney Dean, Richard L. Breen, Harry Leon Wilson, Monte Brice, Frank Butler, Irving Elinson, Robert O'Brien, Richard English, Richard Flournoy |
Cast: | Joseph Vitale, Lucille Ball, Virginia Keiley, Colin Keith-Johnston, Gilbert Alonzo, Ethyl May Halls, Bob Hope, Bob Kortman, Grace Albertson, Robin Hughes, Jack Kirkwood, Howard Petrie, Mira McKinney, John Alexander, Charles Cooley, Alex Frazer, Percy Helton, Jean Ruth, Almira Sessions, Eric Blore, Jim Drum, Hugh French, Hank Bell, Harry Martin, Jac Fisher, Lea Penman, Wanda Cantlon, Hope Sansberry, Ethel Wales, Norma Varden, Gilchrist Stuart, Edgar Dearing, Bruce Cabot, Bobby Dominguez, David Alvarado, Howard M. Mitchell, Annette Warren, Marie Bryant, Alva Marie Lacy, Joe Wong, Ray Bennett, Sam Harris, Ida Moore, Oliver Blake, Jimmie Dundee, Nora Bush, Chester Conklin |
In Theaters: | Jul 19, 1950 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 32 minutes |
Production: | Paramount Pictures |
Box Office: | $2,600,000 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Vudu |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |