Starring: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Bruce Cabot, Jack Kirkwood, Lea Penman Directed By: George Marshall Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Binding: DVD Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC Label: Paramount Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 29, 2004 Running Time: 92 minutes Theatrical Release Date: July 19, 1950
Product Description: An out-of-work actor posing as a British valet is hired to teach a woman European manners. Genre: Feature Film-Comedy Rating: G Release Date: 29-JUN-2004 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com: Bob Hope is up to his classic shenanigans in Fancy Pants, a loose remake of the comedy favorite Ruggles of Red Gap. Hope plays Humphrey, an American actor playing a British butler in a hokey play in London. When a fortune-hunter hires the cast to help him woo a wealthy American girl (Lucille Ball, playing her character like a female John Wayne), the girl's domineering mother takes a shine to Humphrey and hires him to be their butler back in New Mexico. But when they arrive out West, the townsfolk believe that Humphrey is British nobility, and even Teddy Roosevelt drops by for a visit. Despite their different comic styles, Hope and Ball have an oddball chemistry together; throw in some musical numbers, physical slapstick, and a shaggy dachshund, and the results will please any Hope fan. (There are, however, some unfortunate racial stereotypes.) --Bret Fetzer
Thanks for the Memories Bob Hope and Lucy Ball what a team; only those of us baby boomers can appreciate the humor and fun these two created. I enjoyed every fun loving minute this movie had to offer. my teenage kids on the other hand walk out after about the first half hour, "what do they know anyway". This movie is for those of us who remember that funny doesn't have to come with those nasty four letter words to get a laugh out of you. I recommend this product to adults and fun loving kids who can appreciate clean humor.
"Hey, Fancy Pants!..." Reunited for the first time since their box-office success in "Sorrowful Jones" (1949), 1950's FANCY PANTS (a musical remake of "Ruggles of Red Gap" by Harry Leon Wilson) cast Bob Hope as a phoney British butler, with Lucille Ball as his hell-raising, tomboyish employer.
Engaged in a British touring theatrical troupe, struggling actor Arthur Tyler (Bob Hope) literally lands the role of a lifetime when New Mexico millionairess Effie Floud (Lea Penman) drags him back home as the new butler, in the hopes he'll also be a calming influence for her unruly daughter Agatha (Lucille Ball). Aggie, in the meanwhile, decides to use "Humphrey" (as he's now known) to create some sparks of jealousy with her cowboy squeeze (Bruce Cabot). And when the rest of the townsfolk mistakenly start to believe that "Humphrey" is the Earl of Brimstead, all hell breaks loose!
Bob Hope and Lucille Ball were always great value when paired together, but FANCY PANTS might well be their best co-starring vehicle. This is an energetic, high-octane musical version of "Ruggles of Red Gap" (previously filmed in 1935 with Charles Laughton and Mary Boland in the leads). Lucy glows in Technicolor (her singing was dubbed by Annette Warren). The cast also boasts Jack Kirkwood, Norma Varden, Eric Blore and John Alexander.
The DVD has a brilliant restored Technicolor print, but sadly no extras. (Single-sided, single-layer disc).
Fancy Pants The teaming of Hope & Ball proved to be a successful one. This is a funny movie but not quite as good as Paleface or Son of Paleface. Hope is an out of work actor who gets hired by a family out west. The family is "new" money & they're a pretty raw bunch. They want Hope, who they think is a British valet, to polish up their daughter (Ball) so that she would have the manners of a lady, more acceptable to the genteel. It's the typical Hope shenanigans as he goes through his paces. Ms. Ball doesn't want to be "citified" so she rebels at everything Hope tries to do. And, of course, they fall in love by the end but not before Hope's life is on the line.
Awesome Absolutely love this movie. A true classic, great acting, and wonderful music. Lucille Ball and Bob Hope were truely the best comic teams of their time.
HEY, FANCY PANTS!! This movie was absolutely hilarious from beginning to end. I thought the storyline could have been stronger, but still laughed like crazy at Lucy's antics, as usual. :)
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