GO CHASE YOURSELF

 April 22, 1938

• Directed by Edward F. Cline
• Produced by Robert Sisk for RKO Radio Pictures

• Written by Paul Yawitz and Bert Granet, with contributions by Winifred Leah Lawrence, Edward Mecher, and William W. Watson, based on an original story by Walter O’Keefe

Synopsis ~ A mild-mannered bank clerk finds himself stuck a speeding trailer towed by gangsters after a bank robbery goes awry. Unfortunately for him, the police and even his own domineering wife, believe that he is the robber and so head off in hot pursuit precipitated a fast-paced merry chase.

PRINCIPAL CAST

Lucille Ball (Carol Meeley) makes her 38th film appearance since arriving in Hollywood in 1933. This is her first leading role. 

Joe Penner (Wilbur Meeley) a major slapstick comic of the 1930s, this is his only appearance with Lucille Ball, who eclipsed him in fame as time went by.

Jack Carson (Warren Miles) also appeared with Lucille Ball in Stage Door (1937), and Having Wonderful Time (1938).

June Travis (Judith Daniels) makes her only appearance with Lucille Ball.

Richard Lane (Nails) also appeared with Lucille Ball in There Goes My Girl (1937), The Joy of Living (1938), and A Girl, A Guy, and a Gob (1944).

Fritz Feld (Count Pierre de Louis-Louis) also appeared with Lucile Ball in

The Affairs of Annabel as Vladimir, and as a Paris Tour Guide in “Paris at Last” (ILL S5;E18).

Tom Kennedy (Ice-Box) also appeared with Lucille Ball in Old Man Rhythm (1935), and There Goes My Girl (1938). 

Granville Bates (Halliday) also appeared with Lucille Ball in Chatterbox (1936), The Affairs of Annabel (1938), Next Time I Marry (1938), and Twelve Crowded Hours (1939). 

Bradley Page (Frank) appeared with Lucille Ball in Blood Money (1933), Don’t Tell The Wife (1937), There Goes My Girl (1937), The Affairs of Annabel (1938), Annabel Takes A Tour (1938), and Twelve Crowded Hours (1939). 

George Irving (Daniels) also appeared with Lucille Ball in The Affairs of Annabel (1938), and Don’t Tell The Wife (1938). 

Arthur Stone (Warden) makes his only appearance with Lucille Ball.  This is his final screen role. 

Frank M. Thomas (Police Chief) also appeared with Lucille Ball in Joy of Living (1938), and Don’t Tell The Wife (1937). 

“I guess ham just brings out the poetry in me. In some people poetry brings out the ham.” ~ Tony Anthony

UNCREDITED CAST

• Bobs Watson (Junior) appeared with Lucille Ball in “Lucy Becomes a Reporter” (TLS S1;E17) in 1963. 
• George Shelley (Detective)
• Ted Oliver (Detective Clark)
• Rita Oehmen (Diner)
• Clayton Moore (Reporter) was better known as The Lone Ranger.
• Philip Morris (Cop) no relation to the tobacco company that sponsored “I Love Lucy”, his real name was Francis Charles Morris. 
• Napoleon Whiting (Porter)
• Alan Bruce (Reporter)
• Joseph E. Bernard (Daniels’ Butler)
• Stanley Blystone (Policeman in Backwards Car)
• Otto Fries (Rube Wardell – Ventriloquist)
• Diana Gibson (Dining Car Woman)

• Chuck Hamilton (Policeman in Chief’s Office)

• John Ince (John Weatherby – Trailer Occupant)

• Monte Vandergrift (Policeman in Chase Car)
• Ray Turner (Porter)
• Chester Clute (Excited Man)
• William Corson (Reporter)
• Lynton Brent (Photographer)
• Margaret Armstrong (Mrs. Daniels)
• Donald Kerr (Gas Station Attendant)
• Edward Hearn (Raffle Seller)
• Edith Craig (Mother)
• Billy Dooley (Linesman)
• Jack N. Green (Officer)

“CHASE YOUR” TRIVIA!

Penner pushed RKO to cast Lucille Ball after he heard her on “The Phil Baker Show”, a popular radio program on which she had just become a regular featured performer.

Part of this film’s plot involves Lucille Ball inside of a runaway mobile trailer. Several months after filming this picture, Ball also spent much of her screen time inside of a mobile trailer in the film Next Time I Marry (1938). Later, in one of her better-known film roles, she starred in yet another mobile trailer-themed film in The Long, Long Trailer (1953).

Supporting Cast members Fritz Feld and Bobs Watson were the only two members of the cast to later appear on Lucille Ball’s sitcoms. 

Lucille Ball plays the wife of a bank teller. Working in a bank is something Lucille Ball would get lots of experience at as Lucy Carmichael on “The Lucy Show.” 

Trains also played a major part in episodes of “I Love Lucy,” “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour,” and “The Lucy Show”. 

Lucy also lands in jail on “I Love Lucy”, “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour,” “The Lucy Show,” and “Here’s Lucy.”