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starring: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Ruth Hussey, Don DeFore, Louis Nyedirected by: Melvin Frank
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304466476
Format: Digital Sound, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6304466471
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: May 27, 1997
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 6145
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: November 14, 1960
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - These are the facts of life...
There is something splendid about this little comedy starring two of the most hilariously on-point comedic minds of all time; Bob Hope and Lucille Ball. Yes, even though some of the gags don't quite work, Ball and Hope are never short of amazing and they help to elevate the `at times' ridiculousness of the script. I say `at times' and I mean it, because for the most part this movie delivers quite strongly. It is only in parts where things don't quite add up.
Ball and Hope play Kitty ... Read More
Rating: - Very good. Lucy and Bob are great. Subject material still holds interest in modern times.
*** This review contains spoilers ***
This movie surprised me. I really enjoyed it. Lucy is stunning as a glamor star. She gets the soft focus and lighting, the glamor hair and makeup, but the showstopper is the glamor wardrobe. I've never seen her look more beautiful.
I did not know that Lucy had made it so far in her movie career as to be able to star as a glamor girl, opposite Bob Hope yet. Another notch on the resume of this fascinating woman.
My wife ... Read More
Rating:  - Lucy and Hope create beautiful nostalgia
It was really a Hollywood flurry and worry (I'm sure) when the greatest comics of the time (1960) embarked upon a true love story but with these pros there was no danger. A reworking of Brief Encounter emerged as a bitter sweet and humorous accidental love affair. These stars looked great, turned in Oscar performances and bowled over the fans. I Love Lucy already summed up, the Lucille Ball of TV returned to her motion picture roots and did not break stride and Mr. Bob Hope perhaps turned in the role ... Read More
Rating: - A "Non Typical" Vehicle For Comedy Greats Hope And Ball
Anyone coming to a viewing of "The Facts of Life", thinking that they will see a zany Lucy and a fast quipping Bob Hope are liable to come away a bit let down here as these two comedy legends take on relatively "straight" characters in a most interesting social comedy/drama about the pitfalls of infidelity and marital commitments. Seen through the thoughts of Lucille Ball's character of "happily married" Kitty Weaver, "The Facts of Life", marks a most pleasing change of pace for the two leads who handle ... Read More
Rating: - Beautiful!
This is a wonderful Ball-Hope movie that takes a serious, yet often humerous, look at relationships. The characters of Ball and Hope are married--but not to each other--and fall in love when unexpected events find them alone together on a vaction. They spend much of the film trying to forget what has happened, but find it increasingly difficult. A bitter-sweet ending makes this movie a classic, both for movie fans, and espcially the fans of these comedic giants.
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