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Her Husband's Affairs (1947)

• Director
  • S. Sylvan Simon
• Writers
  • Ben Hecht(original screenplay)
  • Charles Lederer(original screenplay)
• Stars
  • Lucille Ball
  • Franchot Tone
  • Edward Everett Horton

  Lucille Ball offers a seminal version of her Lucy Ricardo TV character in Her Husband's Affairs. Ball is cast as Margaret Weldon, the wife of advertising executive William Weldon (Franchot Tone). Though Weldon is successful, Margaret can't help but feel that he'd be more successful if she were to take an active part in his business affairs. The fun really begins when Margaret tries to help Weldon promote a crackpot inventor (Mikhail Rasumny) who's come up with a revolutionary new embalming fluid. As in the previous year's The Hucksters, Madison Avenue and Big Business are targetted for a great deal of derisive ribbing. If only Her Husband's Affairs were as funny as everyone involved seems to think it is.