ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

"Hey, wait a minute! Has Bud Brewster gone nuts? Does he thinf a Lucille Ball romantic comedy about the wife of and advertising man is science fiction?"

Well . . . sort of.

This delightful Columbia Pictures comedy has a clever script and a great cast.

But what makes it's marginally science fiction in the same vein as the Twentieth Century Fox movie, Monkey Business (1952), which dealt with a formula which was developed to reverse aging.





Ditto for another Fox film from just two years after Her Husband's Affairs — It Happens Every Spring (1949), about another formula, one that causes baseballs to repel bats!





In Her Husband's Affairs, Professor Emil Glinka (Mikhail Rasumny) is developing an amazing formula which will preserve deceased individuals by transforming their bodies into a virtually indestructible, glass-like material.

The bodies would then be poses as statues and placed in graveyards — rather than buried and marked with gravestones!

Quite a mental image, eh!

However, the formula isn't perfected yet. But Professor Glinka discovers that a byproduct of the formula is a white cream which quickly dissolves facial hair!



Franchot and Lucy convince the head of his advertising agency that this cream will revolutionize the shaving habits of men worldwide! Millions of dollars will be made the product after they demonstrate it to a gathering celebrates and public officials at a fancy dinner/press conference!

The produce seems to be a smash success . . . but we viewers know darn well that a comic twist is inevitable.

In fact, the rest of the movie involves one comic twist after another, as science repeatedly proves that there's no substitute for extensive research and development!

And besides, Miss Ball is gorgeous and brilliant in this sci-fi/comedy, which I'd never even heard of until I saw on the Fox Movie Channel today!

Here's the full movie on YouTube . . . but download it quickly instead of just watching it, because these things tend to vanish!

_______________ Her Husband's Affairs (1947)


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)