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      The Fuller Brush Girl

      Released Sep 15, 1950 1h 25m Comedy List
      Reviews 50% Audience Score 50+ Ratings Milquetoast Humphrey Briggs (Eddie Albert) and his impetuous girlfriend, Sally Elliot (Lucille Ball), are office workers at a shipping firm whose corrupt owner, Harvey Simpson (Jerome Cowan), uses his company as a front for a massive smuggling operation. When an accident causes Simpson's rich and jealous wife (Lee Patrick) to assume he's cheating on her, the lovebirds get unwillingly drawn into a murder investigation involving a stripper (Gale Robbins) and a hired killer (Fred Graham). Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Oct 31 Buy Now

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      deke p Young LUCY & EDDIE ALBERT! So its a classic, even tho a ludicrously SLAPSTICK comedy. So deserves at least 3 stars. Especially watch the Chase Scene on the boat deck. Never heard of. before THE MOVIE CHANNEL, 3.29.21 Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Mike J This is a reasonably entertaining romp, the perfect thing to pass a couple of hours on a weekend afternoon before moving on to other things. A lesser bookend to Red Skelton's "Fuller Brush Man" released a couple of years previous, which was, given Skelton's manic comedic ability, much more entertaining. Still, Lucille Ball and Eddie Arnold make this a friendly, enjoyable romp. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/28/20 Full Review Audience Member Really cute movie with a very young Lucille Ball and Eddie Albert in the title roles. Kind of a slapstick mystery with great "special effects" and some hilarious moments. It was nice to see Lucille Ball in something other than I Love Lucy. I think she's even better in this, actually. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Pretty good of Lucille ball, funny as always, originally saw this on TCM, greatly entertaining comedy action film for the entire family to watch. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member This is an early gem of Lucille Ball at her comic best. The perfectly timed dead-pan looks and incredulous expressions set her in our minds, as surely as a home perm, to establish her as a comic genius that others in her wake can only aspire to. Her equally great skill was to carve a path, scratching and fighting in a man's world in the studio jungle, to estblish Desilu productions. Hard to be funny, tough, respected, feared and loved but Lucille Ball did all that and brought up two kids in amongst all the maelstrom. Few stars can put their names to that number of achievements. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Totally silly and far-fetched but probably my favorite Lucille Ball movie, not only because it's most similar to her persona on I Love Lucy, but just because the slapstick is so absurd and broad, just like a cartoon, that it's funny. I just get a kick out of this movie. I just love the hair-perm scene, and the chase on the boat, and the burlesque number. Just classics to me. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Milquetoast Humphrey Briggs (Eddie Albert) and his impetuous girlfriend, Sally Elliot (Lucille Ball), are office workers at a shipping firm whose corrupt owner, Harvey Simpson (Jerome Cowan), uses his company as a front for a massive smuggling operation. When an accident causes Simpson's rich and jealous wife (Lee Patrick) to assume he's cheating on her, the lovebirds get unwillingly drawn into a murder investigation involving a stripper (Gale Robbins) and a hired killer (Fred Graham).
      Director
      Lloyd Bacon
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Sep 15, 1950, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Dec 15, 2010
      Runtime
      1h 25m
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