The Fuller Brush People

A couple of Lucille Ball movies were on today, ones from the 1940s before she became a sitcom star as I Love Lucy.

I missed most of Miss Grant Takes Richmond, and I regret it, as I like both Ball and William Holden. Then came The Fuller Brush Woman. I didn't watch it, just DVD-Red it, but I saw the opening credits of it and it shows a woman's heels walking along, knocking on people's doors, getting water tossed on her, and doors slammed in her face, because she's a door-to-door sales person.

After that was The Fuller Brush Man, with Red Skelton. And that opens the exact same way, except of course it's a male's shoes gettng the brush off. And I though, ah hah, Fuller Brush Man is going to be an exact copy of Fuller Brush Girl. Not so, as I found out when I checked the IMDB... Girl was a remake of Man.

Anyway, the bumbling central character gets involved with gangsters, and there's lots of slapstick until the finish.