Fancy Pants

Jul 19, 1950

1h 32m

★ 5.6

Bob tames that "Wildcat" Gal!

Overview

An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The complications increase when the town believes the actor/butler to be an earl and President Roosevelt decides to pay a visit.

Genres

Music

Comedy

Western

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Fancy Pants Trailers

Cast

Humphrey / Arthur Tyler

Bob Hope

Agatha Floud

Lucille Ball

Cart Belknap

Bruce Cabot

Mike Floud

Jack Kirkwood

Effie Floud

Lea Penman

George Van Basingwell

Hugh French

Lionel Boswell / Sir Wimbley

Eric Blore

Wampum

Joseph Vitale

Teddy Roosevelt

John Alexander

Lady Maude

Norma Varden

Rosalind

Virginia Keiley

Lord Twombley

Colin Keith-Johnston

Long ago, in a land far far away, lived a king and queen. They were very much in love with each other and had a beautiful daughter. The little princess was given the wonderful name Snow White. But the queen became very ill and the unthinkable happened... she died. The king was inconsolable, but still decided to marry again. Disaster struck again and the king also died. Snow White was left all alone with her stepmother, an angry and evil woman! From that day on, the evil stepmother, together with her helper and butler Aimé, held sway in the cold and nasty castle. And every day her mysterious mirror told her that she, and no one else, was the fairest in the land..

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