Fancy Pants (film)

Fancy Pants
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Directed by	George Marshall
Produced by	Robert L. Welch
Screenplay by	Edmund L. Hartmann Robert O'Brien Richard Flournoy Monte Brice Barney Dean Irving Elinson
Based on	Ruggles of Red Gap 1915 novel by Harry Leon Wilson
Starring	Lucille Ball Bob Hope
Music by	Van Cleave
Cinematography	Charles Lang
Edited by	Archie Marshek
Production company	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	July 19, 1950 (1950-07-19)
Running time	92 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$2.6 million (US rentals)

Fancy Pants is a 1950 American Technicolor romantic comedy film, directed by George Marshall starring Lucille Ball and Bob Hope. It is a musical adaptation of Ruggles of Red Gap.

Plot

A British actor attempts to impress visiting American relatives by having the cast of his drawing-room comedy pose as his aristocratic family. The American mother persuades the butler (Hope), really a struggling American actor playing a British butler, to come to the United States with them. She sends a telegram home, referring to him as a "gentleman's gentleman," which the rural western townfolk misunderstand as being an aristocrat and presumably the future husband of the family's tomboyish daughter (Ball). Hope must now pretend to the family that he is a British butler while pretending to the rest of the town, and the visiting President Theodore Roosevelt that he is a politically savvy Englishman.

The deception is eventually uncovered, and the actor and the family's daughter eventually fall in love.

Cast

• Bob Hope as Humphrey aka Arthur Tyler
• Lucille Ball as Agatha Floud (singing voice was dubbed by Annette Warren)
• Bruce Cabot as Cart Belknap
• Jack Kirkwood as Mike Floud
• Lea Penman as Effie Floud
• Hugh French as George Van Basingwell
• Eric Blore as Sir Wimbley
• Joseph Vitale as Wampum
• John Alexander as Teddy Roosevelt
• Norma Varden as Lady Maude
• Virginia Keiley as Rosalind
• Colin Keith-Johnston as Twombley
• Joe Wong as Wong
• Olaf Hytten as Stage Manager (uncredited)

See also

• List of American films of 1950

External links

• Fancy Pants (1950) at IMDb
• Fancy Pants at AllMovie
• Fancy Pants at the TCM Movie Database
• Fancy Pants at the American Film Institute Catalog