Anyone remember seeing the Red Skelton movie 'The Fuller Brush Man'?

[bobbieinok]

My folks took us to see it in the 40s. We kids thought it was hysterically funny.

Some time later a door-to-door salesman knocked on the door and said he was a fuller brush man. We kids were there and couldn't stop laughing. Mom was very embarassed and explained about the movie and apologized profusely.

A great memory from childhood.

[hlthe2b]

1. Did you know the Fuller Brush Company was still around?

https://www.fullerproducts.com/

I was sort of amazed to see, but apparently the company was acquired by Sarah Lee Foods sometime in the past decades.

[gordianot]

2. We bought a brush for me in the early 60s.

So it has lasted as advertised. About a decade ago my wife wanted to throw it away. I told her you can’t do that I was told it would last a life time. Most of my hair found its way on that brush.

[TheMastersNemesis]

3. Yes It Was Hilarious. Another Movie Called - "Good Humor Man"W/Jack Carson Really Funny.

You might find it on Youtube.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. You've dated us...

I saw it too, but not in the theater, it came out in 1948. I remember I was probably 8 some years later, it was most likely on tv, my Mom LOVED Red Skelton, so I saw a lot of him, esp. his show.
'Course, she thought Jerry Lewis, and The Three Stooges, were hysterically funny.

Here's something I have not figured out....1956-57 watching Over The Rainbow on tv, and by that time it had been a Thanksgiving tradition to watch it every year....???? When did that begin? Or did it, I might be getting my early and later memories confused. I DO know that in the 60's, my Mom did watch on Thanksgiving...never missed it.

[sarge43]

5. According to Wiki (FWIW)

The first TV broadcast November 1956

[pressbox69]

6. The original broadcast in 1956

was hosted by Bert Lahr and Liza Minelli early November.

In 60 Red Skelton hosted. Richard Boone and his young son in 1961. Dick Van Dyke in 1962 and Danny Kaye 64-67.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. That rang the bell.

It would explain why Mom was so focused on it, she did not want us kids to even breathe while it was on.
and the date matches another memory of that time frame.
thanks for the info...

[pressbox69]

10. Glad to help.

[pressbox69]

11. BTW

After that first broadcast, it was usually shown in early December or Christmastime until Danny Kaye hosted the show in January of 1963.

[rurallib]

7. I am guessing the Wizard showing and the early attempts at color broadcasting coincided

If I recall we rented a color TV to watch our Hawkeyes in the Rose Bowl a month or so later on New Year's Day.
Good lord that thing was heavy

[pressbox69]

12. Yes

CBS would show it in color but we had black and white sets until the eighties. I remember my Dad describing how the screen turned from black and white (or brown) into color when Dorthy opened the door. It was one of the few movies or TV shows the CBS would broadcast in color until 65/66. In 68 NBC brought the rights. NBC dropped the hosts, snipped a few brief scenes and added more commercials to fill up the time.

[rogerballard]

9. I loved Red Skelton...

I watched him as a kid quite often. I also remember "The Fuller Brush Girl"

[pressbox69]

13. Raye: Hold it buster. Skelton: Love to. Raye: Promises, PROMISES!

Skelton: Like the Hollywood Knickerbocker, no ballroom. Check out Red's sly joke about overhead mirrors. I love showing this to friends that cry for the good old family value days. LOL. They say people waited on lines for hours for the rehearsals of Red's show so they could watch it uncensored. I've also heard about an FBI file that listed the biggest collectors of porn films back in the forties were Red and Lou Costello.