Screwball slapsticks of Lucille Ball from her early stages in career
I am a big fan of Lucille Ball and enjoyed her movies and television shows over the years. She is completely off-beat, on the screen, while performing the comedy act. My favorite movie is Next Time I Marry, which she co-stars with James Ellison.
This is a RKO’s comedy of 1938 which generates the zany saga of a slap-happy heiress and a pick-and-shovel hero. Ball marries a government project worker Ellison to make her eligible for $20 million inheritance; then fly to Reno, Nevada so that she can annul the marriage and then wed a titled foreigner Lee Bowman, and enjoy the inheritance with him. The frantic battling of the newlyweds eventually leads to real romance and to a whimsical cross-country diversion. This part of the story sounds awfully similar to Frank Capra’s 1934 classic, “It happened one night” starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.
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