Comedy icons Bob Hope and Lucille Ball team-up in the 1950 Technicolor film Fancy Pants, directed by George Marshall, where Bob gets in over his head with some crazy impersonation shenanigans. The film is a musical version of Ruggles of Red Gap. Fancy Pants was the second pairing of the two icons, as in 1949…
Nothing but the Truth Blu-ray review
Nothing but the Truth is a 1941 American comedy drama film starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. This was their third movie in three years where they teamed-up and once again, they show the chemistry that they had together. Add screen legend Edward Arnold to the mix and you have the makings for another big-time…
My Favorite Blonde Blu-ray review
Comedy legend Bob Hope turned every ‘serious’ film genre into something hysterical. He was able to incorporate comedy into Westerns, horrors, dramas and even spy thrillers with including laughter with the shocks, scares and suspense! He used his wits and nuttiness in the 1942 classic spy thriller comedy My Favorite Blonde, which co-starred someone who…
The Cat and the Canary Blu-ray review
The Cat and the Canary is 1939 horror-comedy and was the first of a pair of tongue-in-cheek scary films that starred Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. It is a remake of the 1927 silent film under the same title. The plot is the familiar ‘murder someone who has just inherited a fortune’ theme. Wealthy uncle…
The Ghost Breakers Blu-ray review
The 1940 film, The Ghost Breakers is one of a couple of horror comedies from Universal studios that paired together stars Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. The other film was The Cat and the Canary made a year earlier. The Ghost Breakers is the third version of this film. The previous offerings, entitled The Ghost…