The Affairs of Annabel

Original Theatrical Date: September 9, 1938 Lucille Ball stars as a beautiful, temperamental movie star who's the victim of one wild promotional stunt after another in The Affairs of Annabel.

Directed by Benjamin Stoloff, Lew Landers. With Jack Oakie, Lucille Ball, Ruth Donnelly, Bradley Page. Wonder Pictures' seedy publicity man Lanny Morgan has put the studio's biggest star, Annabel Allison, in one crazy stunt after another. His latest scheme has Annabel pretending to be a maid in order to research her next screen role. Her disastrous attempts at cooking and cleaning, and her involvement with two fugitives hiding out at her employers' house provide her with more material than she ...

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Overview of The Affairs of Annabel, 1938, directed by Ben Stoloff, with Jack Oakie, Lucille Ball, Ruth Donnelly, at Turner Classic Movies

Not to be outdistanced by the Metro Hardys, the Twentieth Century-Fox Joneses and the Warner Torchy Blanes, RKO-Radio has evolved an Annabel series, of which "The Affairs of—," noted yesterday at the Palace, is the first. A promising first, we might add; in a light farce vein, with some flip players in it. Lucille Ball, who has something on it, is one; Jack Oakie would be another and Lee Van Atta, whose voice is changing, is a third. Between them, and with the help of a smartly written script, they have created an amusing trifle about a movie actress and a press agent with a Svengali complex.

The Affairs of Annabel is a 1938 comedy starring Lucille Ball and Jack Oakie. Oakie plays Lannie Morgan, Wonder Pictures publicity man working with film star Annabel Allison (Ball), her first starring comedy role.