March 16, 1950
- Directed by Edward N. Buzzell
- Produced by Buddy Adler for Columbia Pictures
- Written by Charles Hoffman; additional dialogue by Frank Tashlin; story by Ian McLellan Hunt and Hugo Butler
Synopsis ~ College dean Susan Middlecott thinks there’s no room in her life for romance until she meets Professor Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, who is in possession of a keepsake of Susan’s that he wants to return. Desperate for publicity, lecture bureau press agent Teddy Evans magnifies this into a great romance. The efforts of both dignified principals to quash the story have the opposite effect.
PRINCIPAL CAST
Rosalind Russell (Susan Middlecott) is probably best remembered as Auntie Mame, a role she played on Broadway and in the film and a role Lucille Ball would film in the 1974 musical version of the play. She was nominated for four Oscars. This is her only appearance with Lucille Ball.
Edmund Gwenn (Mark Middlecott) is probably best remembered for playing Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street (1947), which also featured William Frawley. He won an Oscar in 1951 for Mister 888. This is his only appearance with Lucille Ball.
Ray Milland (Alec Stevenson) won a 1945 Oscar for The Lost Weekend. This is his only appearance with Lucille Ball.
Janis Carter (Teddy Evans) also appeared with Lucille Ball in Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949).
Mary Jane Saunders (Louisa) was a seven year-old child actor who also appeared with Lucille Ball in 1949′s Sorrowful Jones.
Francis Lederer (Paul Simone) makes his only appearance with Lucille Ball.
Jerome Courtland (Jerome) makes his only appearance with Lucille Ball.
UNCREDITED CAST
Lucille Ball (as Lucille Ball) plays herself in a cameo appearance in her 73rd motion picture. Leaving an airplane holding a lapdog, movie star Lucille Ball stops to pose for photographs.
Gale Gordon (Station Clerk) was Lucille Ball’s co-star in every one of her radio and television shows: Rudolph Atterbury on “My Favorite Husband,” Alvin Littlefield on “I Love Lucy,” Theodore J. Mooney on “The Lucy Show,” Harrison Otis Carter on “Here’s Lucy,” and Curtis McGibbon on “Life With Lucy.” Whether bellowing or turning a cartwheel, he was Lucy’s perfect comic foil!
Gail Bonney (Woman) also appeared with Lucille Ball in The Fuller Brush Girl (1950). She re-teamed with Lucy in as Mr. Hudson in “The Amateur Hour” in 192, a 1965 episode of “The Lucy Show”, and a 1968 episode of "Here’s Lucy.”
Harry Cheshire (Stewart) also appeared with Lucille Ball in Her Husband’s Affairs (1947), and Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949). He played oil tycoon Sam Johnson in “Oil Wells” (1954).
Mary Ellen Kay (Background Performer) later played Mrs. Taylor, who rents the Ricardo apartment in “Lucy Hates to Leave” (1957).
Norman Leavitt (Earl, Hotel Desk Clerk) also appeared with Lucille Ball in The Long, Long Trailer (1953). He made three appearances on the “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” after which he was in The Facts of Life (1960) and two episodes of "The Lucy Show.”
William Newell (Bartender) played the Nome hotel desk clerk in “Lucy Goes To Alaska” an episode of “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” featuring Red Skelton.
Hans Moebus (Background Performer) was a German-born actor who appeared as an uncredited background performer in hundreds of movies and TV shows, including the Lucille Ball films DuBarry Was a Lady (1943), and The Facts of Life (1960). On “I Love Lucy,” Moebus was seen in “Bon Voyage” also in two episodes of “The Lucy Show.”
Reporters: Larry Barton, Richard Bartell, Harry Strang, Donald Kerr,
Charles Jordan, Ted Jordan
Members: Lelah Tyler, Mira McKinney
Conductors: William E. Green, Robert Malcolm
Alex Gerry (Herman Pomeroy)
Charles Evans (Dr. McFall)
Charlotte Wynters (Miss Withers)
Clifton Young (Chet)
Jean Willes (Pearl)
Wanda McKay (Merle)
Elizabeth Flournoy (Laura)
Harry Tyler (Charlie)
Harry Harvey, Jr. (Joe)
Maxine Gates (Goldie)
Walter Sande (Officer)
Marie Blake (Wax Operator)
Napoleon Whiting (Porter)
John Smith (Boy)
Charles Trowbridge (Jewelry Salesman)
Dudley Dickerson (Waiter)
Lucille Browne (Manicurist)
Lois Hall (Stewardess)
Myron Healey (Cameraman)
Edward Keane (Sergeant)
TRIVIA OF DISTINCTION
In Spain the film was titled The Teacher’s Scandals.
"Lux Radio Theater” broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 23, 1950 with Rosalind Russell reprising her film role. Coincidentally, Lucille Ball took over for Rosalind Russell when Screen Directors Radio Playhouse presented “A Foreign Affair” in March 1951.
Rosalind Russell and her husband Fred Brisson were in the studio audience the night “I Love Lucy” filmed “Be A Pal” on September 21, 1951.
Eddie Buzzell also directed Lucille Ball in Best Foot Forward (1943) and Easy to Wed (1946). His name was mentioned as a going away party guest in “Drafted” (ILL S1;E11).
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