The Affairs of Annabel (1938)
- Starring:
- Jack Oakie, Lucille Ball, (more)
- Director(s):
- Lew Landers, Benjamin Stoloff, (more)
Synopsis of The Affairs of Annabel
Lucille Ball landed her first starring comedy role in the mile-a-minute farce The Affairs of Annabel. Lucy of course plays the title character, a screwball movie actress who indulges in one wacky publicity stunt after another at the behest of her press agent Morgan (Jack Oakie). To promote an upcoming prison picture, Annabel gets herself arrested-and has quite a time extricating herself from behind bars. The limit comes when she gathers research for her next film by hiring on as a housemaid, culminating in a fake kidnapping that turns out to be the real thing. Matching Ball and Oakie laugh for laugh is Fritz Feld as a bombastic foreign director. Cowritten by future Desilu Studios executive Bert Grant, The Affairs of Annabel was popular enough to inspire an equally hilarious sequel, Annabel Takes a Tour. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Affairs of Annabel
- Jack Oakie - Morgan
- Ruth Donnelly - Josephine
- Fritz Feld - Vladimir
- Elizabeth Risdon - Mrs. Fletcher
- James Burke - Muldoon
- Anthony Warde - Bailey
- Charles Coleman
- Lucille Ball - Annabel
- Bradley Page - Webb
- Thurston Hall - Major
- Granville Bates - Mr. Fletcher
- Lee van Atta - Robert Fletcher
- Leona Roberts - Mrs. Hurley
- Eddie Marr - Martin
- Director(s):
- Lew Landers, Benjamin Stoloff
- Writer(s):
- Paul Yawitz, Bert Granet
- Producer(s):
- Lou Lusty
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