Fancy Pants

Fancy Pants is a 1950 American romantic comedy western film directed by George Marshall and starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball. It is a musical adaptation of Ruggles of Red Gap. Plot A British actor attempts to impress two visiting American women, Efflie Floud and her tomboyish daughter, Agatha, by having the cast of his drawing-room comedy pose as his aristocratic family. Effie persuades the 'butler', Humphrey, really a struggling American actor named Arthur Tyler, to accompany them to the United States and help to refine both her husband and daughter. She sends a telegram home, referring to the person she believes is Humphrey as a "gentleman's gentleman", which the rural western townfolk misunderstand as meaning he is an aristocrat and presumably the future husband of Agatha. Arthur must now pretend to the family that he is this 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 gradually fall in love. Cast Bob Hope as Humphrey Arthur Tyler Lucille Ball as Agatha Floud Annette Warren provides the singing voice for Agatha Floud 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)