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Fancy Pants
Bob tames that "Wildcat" Gal!
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.
- Original title
- Fancy Pants
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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- Revenue
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John Chard
Sep 2, 2019 · via TMDB
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 that his refined manner will rub off on the more rough and tumble members of the family. Finds start to spiral out of control when the town mistake him for a noble lord, bringing the attention of one president Teddy Roosevelt, who plans a visit to the family home. Not only that, but Hope has to contend with town bully Bruce Cabot, who is convinced that Hope is trying to steal his girl, Lucille Ball. Bright and bubbly comedy musical fare, played purely for laughs and given a good quality production. Hope and Ball featured together in a total of five film's, their chemistry a winning formula, even if the material wasn't always that beneficial to their respective comedy leanings. Fancy Pants is one of the better ones, but it's bookended by indifference. The start is laborious, and not really setting the standard for what is to come, but once we land in the Wild West it not only lets Hope shine, but also it brings into play Kirkwood and Cabot (excellent). Then it's a case of letting Hope ponce about as a noble butler/Lord, while Ball and Kirkwood plot to have his nuisance self sent packing back to England. It's during this meaty middle section that we get some genuine laugh out loud moments, briskly constructed by Marshall and scripted as sharp as a razor. We even have time for a couple of tunes, with the quite wonderful "Home Cookin" the stand out. Sadly the ending lacks impact and comes all too quickly, which is doubly disappointing since the big build up was great fun. A good but not great Bob Hope film as a whole, but when it's good it's very good and therefore easily recommended to the comedy classic fan. 6.5/10
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Bob Hope
Humphrey
Lucille Ball
Agatha Floud
Bruce Cabot
Cart Belknap
Jack Kirkwood
Mike Floud
Lea Penman
Effie Floud
Hugh French
George Van-Basingwell
Eric Blore
Sir Wimbley
Joseph Vitale
Wampum
John Alexander
Teddy Roosevelt
Norma Varden
Lady Maude
Colin Keith-Johnston
Twombley
Joe Wong
Wong
Ida Moore
Elderly Mother (uncredited)
Oliver Blake
Mr. Andrews (uncredited)
Percy Helton
Mayor (uncredited)
Edgar Dearing
Mr. Jones (uncredited)
Sam Comer
Set Decoration
Charles Lang
Director of Photography
Wally Westmore
Makeup Supervisor
Billy Daniel
Choreographer
Polly Burson
Stunt Double
George Marshall
Director
Michael D. Moore
Second Assistant Director
Van Cleave
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