Fancy Pants (film)
Fancy Pants is a 1950 American Technicolor romantic comedy film, directed by George Marshall starring Lucille Ball and Bob Hope. It is a musical adaptation of Ruggles of Red Gap.
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| Directed by | George Marshall |
| Produced by | Robert L. Welch |
| Screenplay by | Edmund L. Hartmann Robert O'Brien Richard Flournoy Monte Brice Barney Dean Irving Elinson |
| Based on | Ruggles of Red Gap 1915 novel by Harry Leon Wilson |
| Starring | Lucille Ball Bob Hope |
| Music by | Van Cleave |
| Cinematography | Charles Lang |
| Edited by | Archie Marshek |
Production company | Paramount Pictures |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 92 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2.6 million (US rentals)[1] |
Plot
A British actor attempts to impress visiting American relatives by having the cast of his drawing-room comedy pose as his aristocratic family. The American mother persuades the butler (Hope), really a struggling American actor playing a British butler, to come to the United States with them. She sends a telegram home, referring to him as a "gentleman's gentleman," which the rural western townfolk misunderstand as being an aristocrat and presumably the future husband of the family's tomboyish daughter (Ball). Hope must now pretend to the family that he is a British butler while pretending to the rest of the town, and the visiting President Theodore Roosevelt that he is a politically savvy Englishman.
The deception is eventually uncovered, and the actor and the family's daughter eventually fall in love.
Cast
- Bob Hope as Humphrey aka Arthur Tyler
- Lucille Ball as Agatha Floud (singing voice was dubbed by Annette Warren)
- Bruce Cabot as Cart Belknap
- Jack Kirkwood as Mike Floud
- Lea Penman as Effie Floud
- Hugh French as George Van Basingwell
- Eric Blore as Sir Wimbley
- Joseph Vitale as Wampum
- John Alexander as Teddy Roosevelt
- Norma Varden as Lady Maude
- Virginia Keiley as Rosalind
- Colin Keith-Johnston as Twombley
- Joe Wong as Wong
- Olaf Hytten as Stage Manager (uncredited)
See also
References
- 'The Top Box Office Hits of 1950', Variety, January 3, 1951
External links
- Fancy Pants (1950) on IMDb
- Fancy Pants at AllMovie
- Fancy Pants at the TCM Movie Database
- Fancy Pants at the American Film Institute Catalog