Agatha Knabenshu arrives in a small town in Missouri to sell player pianos to the locals. She's fired after her disastrous sales attempts nearly destroy the town. The stranded saleslady ...
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Title: Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady? (1968)
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| Phyllis Diller | ... | Agatha Knabenshu | |
| Bob Denver | ... | Bertram Webb | |
| Joe Flynn | ... | Hubert Shelton | |
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Eileen Wesson | ... | Jeanine Morse |
| Jeanette Nolan | ... | Ma Webb | |
| Paul Reed | ... | Pa Webb | |
| Bob Hastings | ... | Lyle Chatterton | |
| David Hartman | ... | Constable | |
| George N. Neise | ... | Ben Milford | |
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Anita Eubank | ... | Young Girl |
| Kelly Thordsen | ... | Enoch Scraggs | |
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Jane Dulo | ... | Clara Buxton |
| Charles Lane | ... | Mr. Duckworth | |
| Dal McKennon | ... | Old Soldier | |
| Herb Vigran | ... | Baggage Man | |
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Agatha Knabenshu arrives in a small town in Missouri to sell player pianos to the locals. She's fired after her disastrous sales attempts nearly destroy the town. The stranded saleslady becomes friendly with an equally bumbling inventor and moves in with his family. The two then try to sell his automatic milking machine, but things turn sour when their demonstration causes a stampede. Written by Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
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Agatha Knabenshu: You do and you're in for a big surprise!
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Was released as a second feature to Carry On Camping in the UK. See more »Quotes
Lyle Chatterton: I'm gonna beat the pants off of you!Agatha Knabenshu: You do and you're in for a big surprise!
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31 August 1969 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
Did You Hear the One About the Travelling Saleslady? See more »Company Credits
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I saw this movie on late night television many years ago. It was a laugh riot. Sad to say, I don't remember much else.
A better way to describe this movie was "an invasion of the great comics of the time".
Phyllis Diller was as wild as her wild hair.
Bob Denver, hopelessly typecast by GILLIGAN'S ISLAND, usually played the good hearted but incompetent buffoon to perfection (no wonder they type casted him).
Joe Flynn, then riding on the fame he won by playing Capt. Wallace Binghampton on MCHALE'S NAVY, was type cast to playing the whiny and arrogant snob.
Charles Lane had been long type cast to playing mean, despicable and heartless characters and his characters never smiled unless they had somehow managed to victimize some one first, like taking the last of the person's meager possessions, for example. His most famous role was that of Homer Bedloe, a despicable character who made numerous appearances of PETTICOAT JUNCTION.
Bob Hastings portrayed the spineless and gutless yes-man to side splitting utter perfection, like his famous Lt. Carpenter from MCHALE'S NAVY. One of his earliest roles was on the radio show, ARCHIE, playing who else but Archie Andrews, himself! With such a long list of such brilliant comics, together on film, with a good script, a bad script or no script at all, it would be impossible not to have a classic comedic masterpiece.
DVD? VHS? Anything please?