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