Lucille ball on dinah shore show w gale gordon carol. The fuller brush girl is a movie starring lucille ball, eddie albert, and carl benton reid. The fuller brush man, starring red skelton and janet blair. The fuller brush girl 1950 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. At the time, cbs was considering bringing my favorite husband to television. Hot on the heels of such red skelton slapstick comedies as red skelton and red skelton came the fuller brush girl, starring lucille ball in a fascinating dry run for her wacky lucy ricardo tv character. The fuller brush girl is one you dont want to miss. Faced with the reality that their dream home is just out of reach, young lovers humphrey briggs eddie albert, oklahoma. Consolidated foods, now sara lee corporation, acquired fuller brush in 1968.
The basic plot has red skelton playing the part of red jones, a wellmeaning young man who keeps getting fired from every job hes ever held within three. The fuller brush girl 1950 milquetoast humphrey briggs eddie albert and his impetuous girlfriend, sally elliot lucille ball, are office workers at a. As early as 1922 fuller brush was well enough known that the saturday evening post coined the term, fuller brush man. Watch the fuller brush girl online stream full movie directv. Buy the fuller brush girl movie posters from movie poster shop. Scatterbrained sally elliott tries to get a job as a fuller brush girl and desperate for money she borrows. Seeing a pre lucy ricardo lucille ball and oliver wendell douglas eddie albert is hilarious. Red skelton is at his finest, both in verbal comedy as well as in physical slapstick galore. My biggest regret is that the movie is not in color. 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.
The fuller brush man was a successful enough to launch a sequel, the fuller brush girl, starring lucille ball and eddie albert, with a small appearance by red skelton. She and her fiance humphrey get involved in a smuggling scheme. With lucille ball, eddie albert, carl benton reid, gale robbins. Read the full synopsis of the fuller brush girl, 1950, directed by lloyd bacon, with lucille ball, eddie albert, carl benton reid, at turner classic movies. The fuller brush girl nr, 1 hr 25 min classics, comedy, drama. Wanting to get married to bumbling steamship company file clerk humphrey. Definition of fuller brush man in the idioms dictionary. There have been movies made about fuller brush charactersthe fuller brush man 1948 with red skelton, and the fuller brush girl 1950 with lucille ball. In a nutshell, the fuller brush man is one of the funniest movies ive ever seen. In her films for simon, she got to work on the physical side of the character, showing off the slapstick skills she had developed working with buster keaton during his days as a gag man at mgm. And when red skelton played the title role in the fuller brush man 1948, maybe it was obvious that he would be shown giving his lady clients a demonstration of his wares. She is a switchboard operator who accidentally blows up the switchboard and then becomes a fuller brush girl without the permission of the fuller brush company and it goes down hill from there. Its available to watch on tv, online, tablets, phone. The fuller brush girl 1950 stream and watch online.
Scatterbrained sally elliott tries to get a job as a fuller brush girl and desperate for money she borrows her friends kit without. The film came out in 1950, a year before i love lucy. The fuller brush man 1948, starring red skelton, janet blair. It may have general signs of use such as minor fold separation and fold wear. The fuller brush girl is a 1950 columbia pictures movie. The fuller brush girl 1950 watch free movies online in. This movie definitely shows lucys ability to do physical comedy and is kind of like whats to come a year later when lucy debuted in i love lucy. 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. Fuller brush manufacturing operations are moved to great. The fuller brush man 1948 rotten tomatoes movie trailers.
A prime example of the future queen of comedy she would become, the fuller brush girl showcases lucille balls talents wonderfully. The fuller brush girl 1950 the movie database tmdb. A riot from beginning to end, the fuller brush man may well be skeltons funniest film. Scatterbrained sally elliott tries to get a job as a fuller brush girl and desperate for money she borrows her friends kit without permission and her attempts at selling cosmetics doortodoor are disastrous. The fuller brush girl follows the scatterbrained sally elliot lucille ball who, wanting to get married to bumbling steamship company file clerk humphrey briggs eddie albert and needing the. Things get worse when one of her customers is murdered and she becomes the prime suspect. Watch the fuller brush girl online 1950 movie yidio. The fuller brush girl 1950 09151950 us comedy 1h 25m user score. The fuller brush line expands to include 340 products including aerosols, detergents and more. 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. The film also stars eddie albert and has an uncredited cameo by red skelton who had starred in the tashlinscripted the. Read the the fuller brush girl movie synopsis, view the movie trailer, get cast and crew information, see movie photos, and more on. 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.
Suspected of being the killer, red must clear his name. The fuller brush girl watch full episodes and clips. The screen guild theater broadcast a 30minute radio adaptation of the movie on january 20, 1949 with red skelton and janet blair reprising their film roles. The fuller brush girl follows the scatterbrained sally elliot lucille ball who, wanting to get married to bumbling steamship company file clerk humphrey briggs eddie albert and. The fuller brush girl is a 1950 slapstick comedy starring lucille ball and directed by lloyd bacon. Wanting to get married to bumbling steamship company file clerk humphrey briggs eddie albert and needing the money to buy a house, the scatterbrained sally elliot lucille ball takes a job selling cosmetics doortodoor.
It was successful enough in 1948 to spawn a series of imitations the good humor man, the fuller brush girl, the yellow cab man, kill the umpire all of which, like fuller brush man, were coscripted by the inexhaustibly inventive frank tashlin. But when the bumbling sally stumbles upon a murder in progress, she becomes the number one. The fuller brush girl has been ranked 301 times, wins 40. Were your movie poster source for new releases and vintage movie posters. Hot on the heels of such red skelton slapstick comedies as the. The fuller brush girl comedy faced with the reality that their dream home is just out of reach, young lovers humphrey briggs eddie albert, oklahoma. And all of them are worked out in live action to perfection. Watch the fuller brush girl starring lucille ball in this comedy on directv. You really need to watch this movie and find out all she gets into.
When an accident causes simpsons rich and jealous wife lee patrick to assume hes cheating on her, the lovebirds get. In 1991, the company was placed in private ownership but, in 1994, it became a subsidiary of cpac inc. Hot on the heels of such red skelton slapstick comedies as the fuller brush man and the yellow cab man came the fuller brush girl, starring lucille ball in a fascinating dry run for her wacky lucy ricardo tv character. While directed by lloyd bacon, the real soul of the movie is tashlin, who basically comes up with inventive gag after great inventive gag. The fuller brush company sells branded and private label products for personal care as well as commercial and household cleaning. Red skelton, who played the title role in the fuller brush man 1948 makes a cameo here in character. The fuller brush man also has been a part of various cartoons.
The fuller brush girl the 1950 movie, trailers, videos and more at yidio. The movie did have some laugh out loud scenes in it. Fuller brush girl, the scatterbrained sally elliott gets a job as a fuller brush girl and, as expected, her attempts at selling cosmetics doortodoor are disastrous. But when humphreys employer and his wife are both murdered by smugglers using their business as a front, the blame for the crime falls squarely on sally. The fuller brush girl 1950 scratchpad fandom powered. Complete with blowing up a switchboard via facial powder, slathering ladies hair with balding creme, performing her own version of burlesque, and drunkenly saving the day, this movie is a gem full of laugh out loud moments. Eddie albert and lucille ball in the fuller brush girl 1950 eddie albert in the fuller brush girl 1950 eddie. Unable to hold a job because of her tendency to get into trouble, sally elliot ball hires on at the fuller brush company as a doortodoor cosmetics salesman. See more ideas about fuller brush, brush co and vintage housewife.
I still have the fuller brush girl on vhs when it was broadcasted on tbs back in 1985. Ball plays a quirky doortodoor cosmetics saleswoman for the fuller brush company. The fuller brush girl movie posters from movie poster shop. Watch the fuller brush girl online stream full movie. Fuller brush manufacturing operations are moved to great bend, kansas by the new owners, sara lee corporation. The product brochure becomes a catalog with an annual print run of 5 million copies. In this slapstick comedy, an unfortunate fuller brush salesman, red jones red skelton, finds himself accidentally caught up in a murder. And the publicity set mimics this, along with the movie s romantic plot, by addressing the issue of whats the best way for her to take dictation. As in so many movies the girl is used as a tool for men to gawk at. Released 1950, the fuller brush girl stars lucilleball, eddiealbert, carlbentonreid, galerobbins the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 25 min, and received a score of out of 100 on metacritic.
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