Complete credited cast: | |||
Jack Oakie | ... | Lanny Morgan | |
Lucille Ball | ... | Annabel Allison | |
Ruth Donnelly | ... | Josephine (Jo) | |
Bradley Page | ... | Howard Webb | |
Fritz Feld | ... | Vladimir | |
Thurston Hall | ... | Major | |
Elisabeth Risdon | ... | Mrs. Fletcher | |
Granville Bates | ... | Mr. Fletcher | |
James Burke | ... | Muldoon | |
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Lee Van Atta | ... | Robert Fletcher |
Anthony Warde | ... | Bailey | |
Eddie Marr | ... | Martin | |
Leona Roberts | ... | Mrs. Hurley |
Wonder Pictures' seedy publicity man Lanny Morgan has put the studio's biggest star, Annabel Allison, in one crazy stunt after another. His latest scheme has Annabel pretending to be a maid in order to research her next screen role. Her disastrous attempts at cooking and cleaning, and her involvement with two fugitives hiding out at her employers' house provide her with more material than she really wanted. Written by Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
It's easy to see why one viewer would love this movie and another couldn't stand it. I have had both reactions the two times I saw it.
Boy, I loved this the first time I viewed it and then was totally bored on the second viewing 10 years later, so it's hard to evaluate. Suffice to say it does have it's share of laughs which isn't surprising since Lucille Ball and Jack Oakie star. However, the humor is so corny one might see no humor in this - it all depends on what you like.
It WAS interesting to see a young (26 or 27-year-old) Ball, who was very attractive woman at that age. Oakie is okay because he looks funny. He doesn't even have to say anything to get a laugh, which sometimes is better because he played a number of roles over the years in which he delivered a lot of stupid lines!
Like a lot of comedies, it's very silly but the shortness of the film (68 minutes) helps in that regard, preventing it from becoming too silly for too long. There were some funny supporting roles in here, too. Like me, you might really laugh at this or think it's a waste of time: hard to say.