The Facts of Life

After Bob Hope made THAT CERTAIN FEELING the general trend of his films as far as being worthy of the talent he had and of the best of his work was gone. In the future would be films like CANCEL MY... Full review

Maybe it was because I was expecting the cowardly Bob Hope and the scatterbrained Lucy Ricardo, but somehow I couldn't get into The Facts of Life. It had nowhere near the quality comedy that characterized Fancy Pants and Sorrowful Jones.Bob... Full review

This is a pretty good movie, as far as situation comedies go. Very typical of the movies Hope was making at that time. Pepole who have only seen the Hope and Crosby Road shows think Hops did only one-liner jokes,... Full review

Lucy and Bob in a 1960 romantic, satiric comedy. What more could you want?This is very aware for its time and has some wonderful period scenes. Hope and Ball seem to have very complementary comedy styles which play extremely well... Full review

One of their later screen teamings, THE FACTS OF LIFE was a 1960 comedy, rather adult for its time, where Bob and Lucy play two friends, married to others, who usually participate in a group vacation together and through some... Full review

In some ways, this is like an "I Love Lucy" show with cursing, lots of drinking, and centering on adultery. Ball and Hope work well together.The plot begins inauspiciously: We see Hope doing a comedy gig as MC at a... Full review

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... Full review

This surprising film was shown on TCM recently. Not having seen it, and not having other choice, we decided to take a look, and quite frankly, it was a surprise. The film, directed by Melvin Frank and co-written with his... Full review

Bob Hope and Lucille Ball team up very nicely here as each steps away from their well-known screen personas to play a suburban everyman and everywoman who unexpectedly fall for each other, despite the complication of being married to other... Full review

I watched this movie primarily because it was nominated for Best Screenplay, and in that regard, I was not disappointed. There are several funny scenes and some pretty witty dialogue, but overall this movie rates about 6/10. It's a little... Full review

Long unavailable for viewing due to legal tangles, The Facts of Life has gained legendary status as one of the few Bob Hope films of the 1960s to concentrate on character development rather than silly one-liners. Recent viewings have revealed that, though a far more mature work than one might expect from Hope or Ball, Facts of Life still relies to a great extent on the sort of TV sitcom material that the fans of the two stars had come to expect by 1960. ... Full Review

E very day is a stoney day for Moppy and Molly, a happy, silly superstoned senior couple at the University of California at Santa Cruz, but the stoniest of all is 4/20. That's the day that about 500 very baked ... Full Article

When comedian Bob Hope died on Sunday, at age 100, the media unleashed old clips and canned obituaries, and the world has been getting to know him again ever since. ... Full Article

It's not every day that a former Facts of Life cast member holds forth on borderline methods of child abuse. But behold Blair's defense of "hot saucing," the child-disciplinary practice that's sweeping the nation The Facts of Life Lisa Whelchel, ... Full Article