Affairs of Annabel (1938)
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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… More 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
- Directed By
- Benjamin Stoloff
- Genres
- Comedy
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Cast
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Jack Oakie
as Morgan
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Lucille Ball
as Annabel
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Ruth Donnelly
as Josephine
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Bradley Page
as Webb
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Fritz Feld
as Vladimir
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Thurston Hall
as Major
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Elizabeth Risdon
as Mrs. Fletcher
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Granville Bates
as Mr. Fletcher
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James Burke
as Muldoon
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Lee Van Atta
as Robert Fletcher
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Anthony Warde
as Bailey
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Leona Roberts
as Mrs. Hurley
- Charles Coleman
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Eddie Marr
as Martin
