Boxoffice-11.11.1950
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October's Blue Ribbon Award<br />
To Paramount's 'Fancy Fonts'<br />
By VELMA WEST SYKES<br />
^^ITH national and international crises filling the newspaper headlines and the ai<br />
waves. National Screen Council members picked a Technicolor farce comedy. Para:<br />
mount's "Fancy Pants," as the current release which the whole family would enjoy mos<br />
together, so it receives the BOXOFFICE Blue Ribbon Award for October. Bob Hope as i<br />
•eentleman's gentleman"—excuse, please, it says "Mr. Robert Hope" right here in thi<br />
pre.ssbook—spoofs the British, the Americans, and in general carries on. with Lucille Hal<br />
riding herd on his rollicking buffoonery. It all adds up to the kind of entertainment tha<br />
never gets serious for a moment—no problems, no social justice .speeches, no great dra<br />
matic acting, no down-to-earth-realism In this picture. It is make-believe in the trui<br />
theatre tradition, a zany kind of make-believe that moves almost as fast as the ol(<br />
Keystone cops and leaves nothing to the imagination—it leaps way ahead of it.<br />
That this has pleased the first run houses some of the reasons for voting "Fancy Pants'<br />
is evidenced by its having scored an average the whole family Award by writing comments<br />
in key cities of 129 per cent and i.s now doing<br />
on their ballots. The.se ballots, by thi<br />
well in neighborhood and small town theatres.<br />
way, contain a list of the current release;;<br />
The Hope following will be greater and their choice is limited to one film onlj<br />
in .some areas than others, but in general on that list. A few of the comments are th(<br />
the family can go along with this for the following:<br />
laughs and without expecting anything but<br />
comedy that not only borders on farce, but<br />
"Bob Hope is one of the few comedians lef'<br />
crosses the border back and forth in zigzag<br />
fa.shion.<br />
When BOXOFFICE reviewed "Fancy Pants"<br />
in its issue of July 29. it said: "Over thar at<br />
the Bar-Nothin'-Paramount film ranch, they<br />
rode thataway in the gosh-dangdest roundup<br />
of gags ever staged ag'in a sagebrush background<br />
. Robert Hope (formerly Bobi<br />
carries the top brand in the picture and rides<br />
every fun-making mustang until there isn't<br />
a laugh left In it. His support is top hand<br />
and the spread is lushly fenced by Producer<br />
Robert L. Welch."<br />
First Award for Many<br />
This is Producer Robert L. Welch's first<br />
Blue Ribbon picture as it is for all members<br />
of the cast except Bob Hope, who now has<br />
four winners to his credit, his last being<br />
"Where There's Life" for December of 1947.<br />
Director George Mar.shall has one other Blue<br />
Ribbon winner, "Star Spangled Rhythm" for<br />
February of 1943. As for Paramount, this<br />
is the first time has scored for the Blue<br />
it<br />
Ribbon Award since December of 1947, so<br />
congratulations are in order.<br />
National Screen Council members gave<br />
who is capable of satisfying the appetite o:<br />
the entire family for pure entertainment."-<br />
Mahmud Shaikhaly. Hollywood Foreign Correspondents'<br />
Ass'n ..." 'Fancy Pants' i;<br />
D'ood family entertainment."—Mrs. W. Rob-j<br />
ert Fleming. Indiana Indor.sers of Photoplays!<br />
Port Wayne.<br />
Amusing for All Ages<br />
" 'Fancy Pants' is for youngsters, teenager<br />
and adults. Most of them are Bob Hopf<br />
fans. He is also good boxoffice."—Mrs. S. B'<br />
Cuthbert. G.F.W.C, Atlantic City ..." "Fancj<br />
Pants' is the best at the boxoffice. too."—<br />
R. B. Schuessler, Rome (Ga.') News.<br />
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" 'Fancy Pants' is better than the averagq<br />
Bob Hope picture, with some very amusine<br />
scenes, and it is good entertainment for the<br />
whole family."—Mrs. Howard Thwaits. GJP<br />
W.C., Milwaukee ... "I enjoyed the costume."^<br />
especially in 'Fancy Pants.' " —Mrs. R. Ear^<br />
Peters. Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays. Indianapolis.<br />
"Hope and Ball's rollicking, frolicking antic;<br />
in 'Fancy Pants' supply the ingredients ol<br />
good family entertainment."—^Leonard H.<br />
Santwire. Minneapolis film critic.<br />
Humvhrev<br />
Bob Hope<br />
Aaatha Floud<br />
Lucille Ball<br />
Cart Belknap<br />
Bruce Cabot<br />
Mike Floud<br />
Jack Kirkwoob<br />
Effie Floud Lea Penman<br />
Georae Van-BasingweTl Hugh French<br />
Sir Wimbley Eric Blore<br />
Produced by Robert L. Welch<br />
Directed by<br />
George Marshall<br />
Screenplay by Edmund Hartmann.<br />
Robert O'Brien<br />
Based on story by Harry Leon Wilson<br />
Director of Photography<br />
Charles B. Lang jr., A.S.C.<br />
Art Direction Hans Dreier,<br />
Earl Hebrick<br />
Technicolor Consultant Francis Cugat<br />
Special Photographic Effects<br />
Gordon Jennings, A.S.C.<br />
The Casf<br />
Wampum<br />
Teddy Roosevelt<br />
Lady Maude<br />
Joseph Vitale<br />
John Alexander'<br />
Norma 'Varden<br />
Rosalind "Virginia Keiley|<br />
TtDomhley<br />
Wong<br />
Production Staff<br />
Colin Keith-Johnston|<br />
Joe WohgI<br />
Process Photography Parciot Edouart<br />
Set Decoration Sam Comer. Emile KuriI<br />
Edited by<br />
Archie Marshek<br />
Women's Costumes Mary Kay Dodson<br />
Men's Costumes<br />
Gile SteeleI<br />
Specialty Number Staged by<br />
Billy Daniels<br />
Makeup Sjipervision Wally Westmore<br />
Sound Recording<br />
Gene MERRrrr.<br />
Don Johnson<br />
Assistant Director Oscar Rudolph<br />
Music Score "Van Cleave!<br />
Songs by Jay Livingston. Ray Evans<br />
t> This Award is given each month by the National Screen Council on the basis of mitstandtno merit<br />
and suitability tor family entertainment. Council membership comprises motion picture editors, radio<br />
film commentators, and representatives of better film councils, civic and edunitionil orjanijatlons.
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