The Fuller Brush Girl
1950
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Advertising executive William Weldon (Franchot Tone) narrowly averts career implosion when his clever wife, Margaret (Lucille Ball), helps him save an important advertising account.
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- S. Sylvan Simon
- Dennis Schwartz
- Lucille Ball
HER HUSBAND'S AFFAIRS (Columbia, 1947), directed by S. Sylvan Simon, may sound like a melodrama involving a wife discovering her husband's extra marital affairs, but in fact, turns out to be a comedy about the advertising business.
Her Husband's Affairs is a 1947 American romantic comedy film directed by S. Sylvan Simon and starring Lucille Ball, Franchot Tone and Edward Everett Horton. [2] It was released by Columbia Pictures.
Aug 5, 2019 · Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz. Pleasant screwball domestic comedy about the advertising world, that plays as a forerunner of the television “I Love Lucy” series.
Movie critic Bosley Crowther in his New York Times review published on November 14, 1947, described Lucy's role as a "buttinsky wife" who sticks her nose into "her husband's affairs" - a possible model for the constantly scheming housewife in I Love Lucy.
- S. Sylvan Simon, Earl Mcevoy
- Lucille Ball
Franchot Tone plays a real shit-heel of a fiancé, a real man of the times, a man willing to go to jail than be saved by a woman, let alone his fiancée. Meanwhile, Lucille Ball is the fiancée who saves the day in this screwball comedy/sci-fi hybrid.
Synopsis. Bill Weldon is an Ad man who craves his wife Margaret’s approval of his work, instead he gets constructive (and on-target) feedback, which he hates. Things get really strange when Bill creates advertising for a wacky inventor’s embalming fluid.
