Lucille Ball and Eddie Albert would like to get married and buy a model house. They both work for shady boss Jerome Cowan, who has a plan to use Albert for a crooked scheme and then fire him.
When a friend selling cosmetics visits the office, switchboard operator Lucy decides to get started right away selling Fuller products door-to-door herself. Unfortunately she spills powder and lotion all over the switchboard and burns it up--having first splashed the powder all over Cowan. It's not subtle but how can you not laugh?
Lucy's adventures selling door-to-door include a funny cameo by Red Skelton, as well as a hilarious episode selling perms to four bridge ladies, whose hair falls out when a kid next door gets the hair rinse mixed up with his chemistry set.
Meanwhile, boss Cowan's shady deal leads to multiple murders...and the police discover that Lucy is leaving her fingerprints everywhere. Can our heroes get to the bottom of things before the cops catch up with them?
The plot is ridiculous but really of secondary importance; Lucille Ball's antics are the main attraction here, and Lucy does a pretty good job of keeping us watching. While the picture has some dry spells, the funny parts are very funny indeed. Albert's rooftop fight with John Litel is one highlight--they keep bumping into TV antennas and mixing up everybody's TV shows in the apartments below them.
Eventually everybody winds up on a cargo ship full of bananas, wine barrels, and a couple of parrots. (Mel Blanc as a parrot delivers several of the picture's funniest lines.)
Eddie Albert is solid as Lucy's loyal but slightly dopey boyfriend. The rest of the cast is fine but they're really just support. It's no classic but Lucille Ball is certainly fun to watch.
When a friend selling cosmetics visits the office, switchboard operator Lucy decides to get started right away selling Fuller products door-to-door herself. Unfortunately she spills powder and lotion all over the switchboard and burns it up--having first splashed the powder all over Cowan. It's not subtle but how can you not laugh?
Lucy's adventures selling door-to-door include a funny cameo by Red Skelton, as well as a hilarious episode selling perms to four bridge ladies, whose hair falls out when a kid next door gets the hair rinse mixed up with his chemistry set.
Meanwhile, boss Cowan's shady deal leads to multiple murders...and the police discover that Lucy is leaving her fingerprints everywhere. Can our heroes get to the bottom of things before the cops catch up with them?
The plot is ridiculous but really of secondary importance; Lucille Ball's antics are the main attraction here, and Lucy does a pretty good job of keeping us watching. While the picture has some dry spells, the funny parts are very funny indeed. Albert's rooftop fight with John Litel is one highlight--they keep bumping into TV antennas and mixing up everybody's TV shows in the apartments below them.
Eventually everybody winds up on a cargo ship full of bananas, wine barrels, and a couple of parrots. (Mel Blanc as a parrot delivers several of the picture's funniest lines.)
Eddie Albert is solid as Lucy's loyal but slightly dopey boyfriend. The rest of the cast is fine but they're really just support. It's no classic but Lucille Ball is certainly fun to watch.