Annabel Takes A Tour (1938)

While on tour promoting her latest movie, an actress (Lucille Ball) conjures up a fictitious romance with a famous romance novelist (Ralph Forbes) as a publicity stunt. Directed by Lew Landers (DAVY CROCKETT, INDIAN SCOUT). An unnecessary sequel to THE AFFAIRS OF ANNABEL (1938). Unnecessary because it's just more of the same. In the first movie, I found Jack Oakie (as Ball's publicist) irritating and he's just as irritating here and again, considering how he screws up every time, why does Ball continue to listen to his crazy publicity stunts. If it were actually funny, such complaints wouldn't matter but it isn't amusing in the least. Lucille Ball tries but it's like putting make up on a corpse ... it's still dead. With Ruth Donnelly, Bradley Page and Frances Mercer.