Product Details

• Actors: Lucille Ball, Patric Knowles, Donald Woods, Frieda Inescort, Inez Courtney
• Directors: Glenn Tryon
• Writers: Adele S. Buffington, Doris Anderson, Edmund L. Hartmann, Grace Norton, Paul Jarrico
• Producers: B.P. Fineman
• Format: Black & White, NTSC, HiFi Sound
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Turner Home Entertainment
• VHS Release Date: January 23, 1991
• Run Time: 68 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6301913957
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #176,430 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars ELUSIVE BALL PROGRAMMER., August 29, 2002

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This review is from: Beauty for the Asking [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This hard-to-find-on-video 1939 film, which features Lucille Ball in the lead, is unusual Lucy fare. Lucy plays Jean Russell, an honest, hard-working gal who's jilted by her money-hungry beau, played by the Errol Flynn-like Patric Knowles. Once Lucy invents an exclusive beauty cream - which makes her a financially successful businesswoman - Knowles comes back to her crawling on his knees...A strangely watchable offbeat programmer with an interesting (though probably unintentioned) feminist viewpoint coupled with a good early Ball performance (this is a serious role) make for an interesting 68 minutes. It is rumoured that an incredible total of 5 writers collaborated on the script; the result is a fair screenplay, however.