Fancy Pants (film)

Fancy Pants is a 1950 American Technicolor romantic comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball. It is a musical adaptation of Ruggles of Red Gap.

Fancy Pants
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGeorge Marshall
Screenplay by
Based onRuggles of Red Gap
by Harry Leon Wilson
Produced byRobert L. Welch
Starring
CinematographyCharles Lang
Edited byArchie Marshek
Music byVan Cleave
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • July 19, 1950 (1950-07-19) (United States)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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

See also

References
  1. "The Top Box Office Hits of 1950". Variety. January 3, 1951.


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