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The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)

The Fuller Brush Girl poster
Directed by
Lloyd Bacon
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman takes a job selling cosmetics door to door. She gets into a series of slapstick mishaps and misunderstandings while trying to prove herself.

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What happens

The Fuller Brush Girl is a 1950 slapstick comedy starring Lucille Ball directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Frank Tashlin. Ball plays a quirky door-to-door cosmetics saleswoman for the Fuller Brush Company. The film reunited Ball with Bacon, producer S. Sylvan Simon and Tashlin from the 1949 film Miss Grant Takes Richmond. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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