En plein cirage

Titre original : The Fuller Brush Girl

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Eddie Albert and Lucille Ball in En plein cirage (1950)

Scatterbrained Sally Elliott tries to get a job as a Fuller brush girl and desperate for money she borrows her friend's kit without permission and her attempts at selling cosmetics door-to-door are disastrous. She and her fiance Humphrey get involved in a smuggling scheme and she becomes the prime suspect in first one and then a second murder. She and Humphrey find themselves dodging the police while trying to catch the real killers.

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueSally borrows her friend's cosmetics kit to sell door-to-door but fails miserably. She and her fiancé get caught up in a smuggling scheme, are suspected of murders, and must evade the police... Tout lireSally borrows her friend's cosmetics kit to sell door-to-door but fails miserably. She and her fiancé get caught up in a smuggling scheme, are suspected of murders, and must evade the police while hunting for the real culprits.Sally borrows her friend's cosmetics kit to sell door-to-door but fails miserably. She and her fiancé get caught up in a smuggling scheme, are suspected of murders, and must evade the police while hunting for the real culprits.

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Mrs. West
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Jay Barney

Fingerprint Man
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Mel Blanc

Parrot
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Gail Bonney

Babysitter
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Donna Boswell

Sue Finley
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Leonard Bremen

Burlesque Patron
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Paul Bryar

Husband Watching TV
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Paul E. Burns

Pop
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Réalisation
- Lloyd Bacon
Scénario
- Frank Tashlin
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Anecdotes
When Sally is mistaken for a babysitter and tied up by some children playing Cowboys and Indians, she is rescued by the real babysitter, played by actress Gail Bonney. Two years later, Gail Bonney would play Mrs. Hudson in the I Love Lucy episode "The Amateur Hour," hiring Lucy Ricardo to babysit her twin boys, who would tie Lucy up while playing Cowboys and Indians.

Gaffes
When Humphrey is climbing down the mattress springs, you can see the wire holding him up.

Citations
Sally Elliot: It only took you a year to finish that correspondence course.
Humphrey Briggs: Yeah, but that was a six month course.

Connexions
Featured in 100 Years of Comedy (1997)

Bandes originales
Put the Blame on Mame
Words and Music by Doris Fisher and Allan Roberts
Performed by Gale Robbins

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Funny, Funny, Funny!!!

This was one of Lucille Ball's last theatrical films prior to the debut of "I Love Lucy", and from the looks of things it was the final primer for her role as Lucy Ricardo. "The Fuller Brush Girl" was filmed in 1950 as a sequel to the very popular "The Fuller Brush Man", which starred Lucille's male counterpart, Red Skelton.

It's the story of a young couple, Sally and Humphrey, who want to get married, buy a house and live happily ever after. But just as they are able to place a down payment on their dream house, Sally causes an electrical fire at the shipping company where she and Humphrey work and loses her job. Undaunted Sally decides to try her hand at door-to-door sales as a Fuller Brush Girl (she actually sells cosmetics, not brushes). Meanwhile back at the shipping company Humphrey is promoted to shipping manager, only he doesn't realize that he is being set-up as the fall guy by a smuggling ring. Through a hilarious set of circumstances the bumbling Fuller Brush Girl and the smuggling ring get mixed-up with each other and all hell breaks loose. In the ensuing tangle, there is murder, talking parrots, police chases, a very funny striptease and some of the funniest sight-gags ever put on film.

The cast includes a very young Eddie Albert as Humphrey, Jeff Donnell as Sally's best friend and a who's Who cast of character actors.

If you are looking for a movie with Lucille Ball at her comical best, this is the one.

As a trivia note, the musical number in the film "Put The Blame On Mame" is the same recording used to dub Rita Hayworth's voice in the film "Gilda".