Miss Grant Takes Richmond 1949
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- For Ellen Grant (Ball), the worst student at the Woodruff Secretarial School, it comes as a great surprise when Dick Richmond (Holden) hires her to work at his realty company. Actually, it is her apparent empty-headedness that has won her the job. The real estate firm, and now Ellen, are merely fronts for a bookmaking operation run from the back of the office, where Dick and his associates, Gleason (James Gleason) and Kilcoyne (Frank McHugh), take bets on races.
Ellen is distressed when she watches as her uncle, Judge Ben Grant (George Cleveland), is forced to rule in favor of landlord Roscoe Johnson (an uncredited Will Wright) in eviction proceedings against several of her friends. There is an acute shortage of low-cost housing, exacerbated by Johnson's plans to tear down what he has and rebuild more expensive units.
To avoid raising Ellen's suspicions, Dick mentions that he cannot purchase some land offered because $60,000 is too high a price, but that he would for $55,000. Ellen goes to the vendors without authorization and negotiates the price down to $50,000. When she returns to the office with the news, accompanied by the seller and Ellen's boyfriend, Assistant District Attorney Ralph Winton (Stephen Dunne), Dick has to play along. Little does she know her plans to construct affordable housing are driving Dick's organization into financial trouble. He cannot fire her without questions being asked, so he tries being aggressively romantic with her. This backfires, however: both he and Ellen find themselves enjoying embracing and kissing.
Young widow Mrs. Peggy Donato (Janis Carter) comes to see her old flame, Dick, to try to get him to run her much larger bookmaking operation (inherited from her late husband). She and Ellen soon detest each other. Dick's trouble really begins when Ellen unwittingly takes a bet from Mrs. Donato on a fixed race, putting Dick in debt to her for $50,000. Mrs. Donato, who would rather have Dick than the winnings, tells him that if he does not go away with her or pay her, her gang will deal with him.
To raise the money, Dick lets Ellen take charge of the housing development, having Kilcoyne embezzle enough funds from down payments on the new homes. When the funds run out before the homes are built, she accepts full responsibility, believing that her own incompetence was to blame. Seeing the girl he has come to love suffer, Dick decides to go away with Mrs. Donato and pay the people back.
Ellen discovers the truth behind the missing money and the betting racket, but forgives Dick and cooks up a scheme to force Mrs. Donato to leave Dick alone, pretending to be the brains behind the bookmaking operation, backed by her own "gang". Peggy's men, however, are too tough. Just in time, Gleason and Kilcoyne show up with the $50,000, won by a bet placed with Mrs. Donato's own organization. Dick and Ellen embrace.
Stunning woman & fabulous actress!
Never seen this old movie! My daughter,loves Lucy! Enjoyed very much!
240p (very poor picture quality) it's unwatchable.
My beautiful red headed Mom was proud of having been an executive secretary in the early 40s before becoming a mother.
Same typewriter I learned on. Lol And we weren't allowed to cross our legs either. Makes your blood pressure go up. I was a secretary for 30 years and my blood pressure went down when I retired. The boss can elevate it just like crossing your legs! Lol
Elaine, I learned to type on a Royal as a high school freshman in 1969...made it to 100 wpm. My first typewriter was an Olivetti-Underwood portable, but nothing...and I mean nothing...sang like a Smith-Corona. It was like playing a 1959 Gibson Les Paul guitar.
@@allanmacmillan7823 Good grief - Royal / Underwood / Olivetti / Smith-Corona ....so many blasts from the past - thanks 😂. My fastest recorded speed was only 88wpm but with 100% accuracy - the examiner could not believe it and made me take the test again (with a different test document) - same result 100% accuracy! 😂😂
@@anaderol5408 It gets worse!!! I enlisted in the Navy in 1981 where, due to my advanced typing skills, I was assigned the rate of "Personnelman"...a glorified typist. We used the IBM Selectric II for all OCR documents. Hated the electric typewriter! Then one day in 1982...I was introduced to this new contraption from some company named Lanier. They called it a "Word Processor". And the typewriter died a quick, but painful death.
@@allanmacmillan7823 Oh yes - the transitions we had to endure - from needing to 'unstick' the keys because we typed too fast, to the short-lived electric - both the golf balls and the daisy wheels - to the introduction of the electronic with the one line screen - invariably I'd forget to remove the indentation... (the resultant letter would be somewhat artistic) - to the floppy disk WP - needing to enter the programme disk as well as the file disk......the first desktops which weighed a ton.... and we all knew DOS and were sometimes tempted to use *erase*. Now almost everywhere I go I take my MacBook Air and I only use about 20% of my iPhone's capability BUT, last week, whilst clearing out useless (to me) apps I discovered a nifty distance measuring app - with a little practice less frustrating than a tape measure!!
I still have the ‘bib’ my Mother made for us to put over the typewriter at school when we were learning and weren’t allowed to look at the keys….
I listen to Lucy every night on old Radio Theater her show, my Favorite Husband glad I found this Gem she makes every Movie Great We all miss you Lucy 💖❤💔💖
👍👌👏 Thanks for uploading and sharing this old comedy.
Best regards, luck and health in particular.
Great, funny, charming, & clever Lucille Ball! Loved it!
Oh the one liners! 😂 This was SO well written!
I adore James Gleason ❤
And William Holden my favorite actor...
Loved this movie...
❤😂
Such a great way to enjoy a rainy day with oldie moments of yesteryear!
When humble was appreciated and moral compass was first !
Can you say that again in English
Thanks for the upload, I'm a huge fan of I Love Lucy, my favorite show of all time, but I've only seen a few of Lucille Ball's movies, she had been in movies since 1931 before starring in ILL w/hubby Desi Arnaz. Lucy was a pin-up girl during WW2, my 85-year-old father had photos of her on his bedroom wall, along with Hedy Lamarr and Veronica Lake. Lucy had plenty of acting experience in movies & radio by the time she started in TV, but it was with I Love Lucy that she finally got the recognition she deserved--she and Desi became superstars, they ending up buying RKO studios, but by 1960 their marriage was falling apart and they divorced after 20 years. I'm glad we can still enjoy her talent all these years later.
You know everyone always talks about Lucy's comic timing but I think her acting timing is so underrated! Every single scene comedy or not her delivery and timing and pace is pretty much perfect! Even more impressive than some of the movie greats in my opinion. It always seems so natural to her. I think her acting is just incredible and so underrated.
Underrated ? Wtf ????
@@pressureworks Her acting is underrated as in her performances for the dramatic serious roles she had before TV.
I'm a " Boomer " and I've never seen this before. I can't believe it wasn't shown on TV many times as I was growing up. It was a great comedy. Typical Lucille Ball shenanigans! Thanks for showing it here. I give it 4 Stars...
Manny j Im another boomer who loves old movies, cant believe in all the years of hunting down golden oldies, this one has just now surfaced, wish we had more pull to get mainstream to stop all the low class filth thats being peddled as entertainment today. Thanks for being one of those that loves the really good stuff!👍
I haven't seen this either. Watched everything Lucy did with my Mom. Bless you.
Filmed in 1949. I suppose this qualifies me 2 as a babyboomer, having not been born till 1953 !!! When Barbara stanwick received an honorary Oscar from the academy awards she deicated it to (her Golden boy!!!!!) I two tying on my great aunti- maymes old time hunt & peck typewritter. Later came the electric with self correcting but those always failed!!! Then the I. B. M. Electric and man, they were heavyweight!!! Nowadays just computors, & More & more computors!!!! You don't even have to know the alphabet on the keyboard, but I had it memorized and typed 125 words a minute!!!!!! Wheeeeh, makes me dizzy just thinking about it. Thanks for posting this hilarious fun time flick by our Lucy!!!!
Yes, there used to be old Movies on regular broadcast TV in the 70s a lot. And I don't remember this either. A good one. It's something how there used to be more entertainment on 3 Channels, than You can find now with one of those 100 Channel Cable packages, I got rid of Cable several years ago, a senseless waste of Money, the good stuff is on here!
@@katherinehogan578 Apparently you don't understand what "boomer" means. It is the American generation after WW2. 1946 to 1966. The over-lap of those born 1960 to 1966 are also Gen X.
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. No wonder William Holden and Lucille Ball had such good chemistry in the I Love Lucy episode they starred in together. I saw a few nuances of their interaction with each other in the movie as well as that Brown Derby meeting episode. Their comedic timing was spot on. 👍❤️Thanks for sharing this movie with us. 🙏🏻🎬🎥🌴
How funny! Lucy slapping William Holden around the room! I bet they had a good time making that scene!
Wow! You could really see her “Lucy” character coming through here, and Willam Holden was a dream. Cute movie!
Loved Lucille Ball n that sitcom played some time n the 80tys this movie with William Holden is a classic thnks for sharing
Lucy was one of the best comedic talents ever, as well as hot as a lit match! Holden could do comedy, drama, thrillers and, he was handsome as heck. Thanks for the movie....
Yes he was, wasn’t he. Very handsome 😉
This movie has stood the test of time. Still very clever and funny in 2023! One of the best Lucille Ball movies ever. Bill Holden plays off of her very well also. Sure wish that he had done more comedy movies. 😉😊🙃
I knew Bill Holden in Sunset Boulevard and The Wild Bunch, didn’t know he was in a comedy with Lucille Ball (not counting the famous I Love Lucy episode he guest starred in) until a few years ago.
Bill was superb in Sunset Boulevard, but he does a fine job in a lighter role in this wonderful little film.
Lucy was beautiful and talented. Shouldn’t come as a surprise why so many Americans loved her for decades.
I really enjoyed seeing this movie and I am sure was my first time. I was born in 1953. Like someone already commented, this is Lucy before she became "Lucy". I have seen pictures of when Lucy was young just starting out in acting and she was really good looking. I think I remember reading she wanted to initially become the typical movie star actress, but comedy is where she made it big. Really glad to have found this on CZcams.
You should watch The Big Street with Lucy and Henry Fonda. One of her best movies, Lucy had a dramatic part in it.
@@KratostheThird Thanks!
I was born the same year as you and remember watching I Love Lucy with my parents in the mid 50s when I was probably 3 or 4 years old on a TV my father actually built using an oscilloscope tube! He was an electronics guy who got most of his advanced training in the air force during WW2. I was wedged between my parents with our faces literally 2 feet away from the screen. In this movie you can see Lucy's comedic chops honed to perfection and getting ready for the new TV era.
@@ralphd.4857 I agree. Interesting hearing about the TV your Dad built. I remember my Dad taking our TV in to the TV repair shop at times replacing tubes in the back. My Dad was in the Air Force and Army Air Corps from 1944-1958 and also learned electronics from them that became his career. He was stationed at Scott Air Force base in Illinois, but for one year from mid 1956 to mid 1957 he worked overseas in Newfoundfounland so my mom and I moved to out 1950s home until 1960 by ourself close to her parents in St. Louis. My Dad was from Warren, Ohio, and most of this travelling was prior to Scoot starting there in 1949.
@@ralphd.4857 She was one of the best we ever had.
US before 60's.... We lost it forever....
Lucille Ball was starting her own way of acting a long time ago wasn't she ? She was such a great actress and a comedian . I laughed when her and those women started moving those strings . HAHAHA...!! Thanks for sharing this movie !! 💖
Loved it!!!! I can’t believe I never saw this charming movie before!
Thank you for sharing
Keep the classics coming!
love this movie. the topic is still relevant today!!! And such good acting too.
Could really see Lucy Ricardo coming in a couple of years,, Miss Ball was a great actress of every genre and a fierce businesswoman ♥️💋
At 1:06:49 the hilarious Miss Lucille Ball strikes again. She is my absolute favourite dyed red headed comedienne who cracks me up every time again and again and again. I absolutely adored her. No one could beat her comedic genius and carry it off the way she could with such a straight face and the grand finale at 1:24:53 the most absolutely priceless of all.
I Absolutely LOVE THIS MOVIE 🎥 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
I love these types of movies. Lucy is one of my favorites
A Excellent Movie.. Highly Recommended.. Thank You Very Much For Sharing.. We Love Lucy..
Enjoyed watching this movie so much!...The ending was hilarious!...Thanks for sharing...
Wonderful movie.
Thanks for the upload,another fine picture from the golden age of clean,family friendly entertainment.
Excellent first-rate well-produced . One of the last studio contracted actors movie. Lucy is hilarious!
Some of the dialogue was unintentionally hilarious..'I'm always in for Dick' ..lol
Comedies like this are funny for ever, I love Lucy 😊
The phone booth scene was hilarious,and perhaps " typical" of future " I Love Lucy" antics?! William Holden was both a very good dramatic and humorous actor,besides,quite obviously,a very handsome actor.Thank you,for showing,sharing this movie! Nancy,Missouri.
William Holden has a Movie on You Tube called The Turning Point, it's on My list for this Week's Entertainment!
That was fun, a real blast from the past and the first inkling of what Lucille Ball was to be.
Very special indeed 💐🌾🌺🌝🍄🌹
Comedy in sheer perfection.
Lucille Ball & William Holden.
And that finale ought to go down in the annals of movie history.
Lucille Ball and William Holden on I Love Lucy - "Hollywood at Last"(or something like that) it was incredibly funny and got so many laughs in 20 minutes.
Thank you for posting this oldie. Most of it is predictable good fun but the end is comic genius.
Wow! Saw this _one_ time on a Saturday when rain washed-out the day's planned activities. Must be more'n thirty years ago. Thank you for making this available.
WOW! Great movie, and thanks indeed for the upload!
What a fun movie. Lucy was wonderful in this!!! Just awesome. They all were excellent in their parts.
So good to see Charlie Lane. He was in so many movies and shows including I Love Lucy.
Yeah a great character actor who live around 100yo
@@paulcaron400 Lived to 102 years old. Born in 1905, died in 2007.
Couldn't have asked for a more fulfilling career for him. Made a number of appearances on I Love Lucy/Lucy Desi Comedy Hour, and a whole bunch of movies in small roles.
LOL I felt her pain when he crumpled the letter. one of my favorite movies since decades ago :)
Thanks for good upload of the old classic. Loved watching again. Highly recommend. 👍
She not only took Richmond she took America too ⚡️💫
Ain't it the truth.
Loved it! Thanks
This Lucille Ball film must have been the template for "I Love Lucy" show 2 years later in 1951. The typewriter school debacle and Lucy at the building site trying to light a cigarette after using the drilling machine, is the prototype of the Lucy Ricardo character , and her physical comedy we grew up loving.
Like the candy factory routine
I liked her in I Love Lucy!!
Thank you for uploading this awesome movie. A great story line, funny and charming! Love it very much!
And now Richmond Homes have developments all over Colorado.
LB is one of the all time greats at physical humour. Boy, in this flic she sure had some esplaining to do...
I was a Lucy fan since I was a little girl!! I never saw this movie! Thank you so much!😘
By the way, I forgot to tell Ani thank you so much for taking your time to upload this wonderfully deligtful video! I appreciate the clarity and good sound quality immensnsly!! Pura vida ....
You are welcome friend
Lucille before Lucy, but already Lucy !
If we know why Richmond takes Miss Grant, we also know why Miss Grant takes Richmond. William Holden was a dish !
Did you ever see the episode where Lucy, Fred and Ethel go the the Brown Derby for lunch and William Holden ends up sitting in the next booth? If you are a Lucy fan, you have likely seen it. It is one of the funniest episodes ever!
@@Juliana65 Yes I did ! And I love when Lucy and William are face to face above the back of the chair. Thanks for remember me this episode.
@@Juliana65 yes yes lol
@@Juliana65 That one kills me. My dad loves it
Did that dish bowl you over......
Excellent movie! Thanks!
Good lord I remember typing class juj juj juj..and short hand class!😂😳
Sickens me what landlords still do to there paying tenants!
The slap scene was hysterical! 🤣😂😅
Cute movie. In 1955 William Holden guest starred on I Love Lucy as himself in an episode titled Hollywood at Last.
And the man who ran the "secretary school" played the Ricardo's money man in the I Love Lucy episode, "The Business Manager.
W.H is dreamy, and his voice . I’ve always had a big ol crush on him just like Lucy in that episode. 😍💋
Bill Holden, and Lucille Ball with her nose on fire! Classic as it gets!
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@@WILLIAMCHANEL He was also in the episode Lucy Goes to the Hospital. He was in the waiting room - expecting his last child, had 6 girls and was hoping for a boy. Well, this last time he had 3 girls totaling 9! Great episode.
Made 2 years before Lucy's foray into television immortality.
Younger Lucille Ball. Never disappoint. Cute movie.
Everybody that was alive in 1950's ❤Lucy! 👍🙏🙏🙏
What a great actress! I know of a certain Cuban born band leader who just might possibly be a good partner for Comedic TV show.
Lucy was already married to Desi in 1940 - this movie was in 1949.
@@LJ-ht4zs it's a joke mr Peabody. no sense of humour ?
That was great! Thanks Uploader
Laughed like crazy when she started slapping him around. Great actors.
And he fall down so hard every time. Really hilarious.
In old times they would use a fish
The game was know as playing for
Who knew war games were so popular way back then
lead girdle - loved it
Oh yeah she's adorbs!!
Loved this old classic when movies were entertaining.
That’s Robert Osborne at the end there. He was on TCM (Turner Classic Movies) for a long while before his passing.
He was a part of Lucy’s Workshop at Desilu Studios back in the late 1950’s, so it makes sense why he was so fond of her.
Thank you for posting the video
Thank you sharing, I had not seen this one...🥰
What a cutie! story line, Lucy, everybody was great!👍💥💥💥💥⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️lets hope there are a few more gems out there just waiting to be discovered! Thanks so much for posting!
Really a good movie
Haven't seen this yet! Watching now
You can see why Bill Holden was in the 1955 I Love Lucy episode in the Brown Derby when he got a pie in the face after seeing this movie.
I'm enjoying this movie - 24 minutes in!
LMAO!! That opening scene is brilliant!
I love Lucy! & William Holden!❤😊
Amusing comedy with Lucille Ball in good form and any comedy with such skilled talent as James Gleason and Frank McHugh has to be worth watching. The fabulous Gleason always looks like he has come straight out of a Damon Runyon novel
Don't forget Bill Holden...He's a great comedic actor as well as dramatic.💃🏃
whiting sorry forgot to mention that William Holden showed that he had a flair for comedy, something he did not get the chance to show that often. You are dead right.
@@birdznbeezz Father is a bachelor.
$83 in postage at 3 cents in 1949 for a first class stamp is 2,766 stamps.
First Richmond takes Miss Grant then at last Miss Grant takes Richmond. Lovely movie. I love Lucy. However I love Golden Boy (William Holden) too.
I guess TCM never had this on before. Enjoyed
Think I'll watch it again right now
I could not help but remember the episode of I Love Lucy when she was so obsessed with meeting actors when they got to Hollywood and Wm Holden got a plate of Spaghetti in the face at the famous restaurant. She was great and Holden was so handsome and had so much appeal.
Thanks!!!
"My rod, please. 😠"
Hands back the pencil sharpener 😂
I have been looking everywhere for this movie so thnak you for uploading
THANKS UPLOADER!!!!!!!
You are welcome
I love Lucy in this movie. ❤❤ thanks for uploading
this is meant to be a comedy, I know, and it has its moments,
but it also has a large dose of reality, particularly when referencing
the underhanded way that the real estate "business" operated in the past,
and operates in the present
This is a hilarious movie! Lucille is a star!
You Got That Right
Watched her as a youngster 😃Clever lady!
Lucille Ball is so funny she's terrific period, but I have to say I've always been in love with William Holden, debrabdr@yahoo.com
@@esterherschkovich6499 ,. In her early years she was a hottie!
Just had to watch this again...lucy is so funny
Wonderful!!!!
I loved this movie when I was a kid.
Lucy did several movies which are very entertaining, but the Hollywood moguls did not know what to do with her when it came to promotion and acting jobs. That is why she formed Desilu with her husband Desi Arnez. And the rest is TV history. This movie is typical of her early work before TV.
Lucy couldn't get any of the studios to back the "I Love Lucy" show she and Desi put up their own money to get it aired. I bet the people that turned them down were kicking themselves after it became a hit.
Also, I learned Gregg Shorthand and typing in H.S. at 60wpm helped me get work and work my way through college f/t in NYC in accounting. As an African American, I was the first to graduate college in my family. The bookkeeping then entry level accounting jobs I received whilst still in college, working my way through, would not have been possible were it not for typing and shorthand classes I took in H.S.
Congratulations..as an African Americans man I wish I had've paid attention while I was taking typing classes in JR.High School.
The classes work!!
I loved my typing and shorthand classes! Especially shorthand.
I too, took typing in HS and it helped this Latina through computer operations and then higher level work in IT (MIS in those days)...
As a White I Demand Reparations For The Slavery we were sold into...LONG BEFORE ANY BLACK AMERICANS...Look It UP !
Now, that's Lucy. Hollywood should have put her in more of these films and she would have had a great movie career.
Glad they didn't - we got Ï Love Lucy et al. Forever will be my favorite series - first saw in 1951 and throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Saw Lucie Ball's I Love Lucy; The Lucy Show, and Here's Lucy. All of which made me look into all her films on CZcams and on Amazon Prime. My favorite film was the 1947 Lured. I also like the two that did not get very good reviews but I loved both of them: Forever Darling and Mame.
I like the reference about Truman, He did once run a Men's Clothing Store, a haberdashery, with an Army Buddy (WW1) The Store didn't do so well and closed in 1922. Truman had an interesting number of other pursuits before entering politics!
Films like this were average for the time period. Silly, sort of stupid but charming comedy with personality that helped define what comedy movies were during the Post War.
Lucille Ball was probably at her peak when it came to good looks and beauty when this film was made. She was simply gorgeous. Attractive yet down to earth and more honest and authentic than the vast majority of today's so called Hollywood actresses who confirm to the fake look while lacking any substance or talent. Lucille Ball had both.
If anything this film helps serve what would eventually be the 'Lucy Ricardo' character that made Miss Ball a comedic legend and television icon. William Holden does a fine job here playing a charming, very handsome man. He wouldn't really shine until Sunset Boulevard and Stalag 13. It was definitely sad that he suffered from depression later in life.
Miss Ball and Mr Holden make an otherwise rather average to slightly above average film for the time period a treat.
Ty for this channel. ❤️😎👊👍
Great movie. They don’t make them like this anymore. Lol 👍👍👍
Starting at 8:47, the typing instructor asked William Holden which woman will he choose and he said "that girl". Being slightly confused, the instructor asked again which girl. Then William reapeated, "that girl". Lol, in my mind, I was expecting the words That Girl to flash over a freeze frame of Lucy's face, and hearing the theme music from the classic '60s TV show, THAT GIRL. 😆