The Fuller Brush Girl

The Fuller Brush Girl is a 1950 slapstick comedy starring Lucille Ball and directed by Lloyd Bacon.

Ball plays a quirky door-to-door cosmetics saleswoman for the Fuller Brush Company.

Sally and Humphrey, who work together at the same steamship company (she as a switchboard operator, he as an office boy), wish to be able to afford monthly payments on a house they have long wanted to buy.

Borrowing her friend's kit, Sally sets out to prove she would be a good saleswoman without having to obtain the reference.

Hilarity ensues as the pair are chased around the ship by a criminal gang trying to silence them, while they leap out a porthole into the ship's hold and then hide variously in rooms filled with leaky wine barrels, bunches of bananas, and a pair of talking parrots who nearly give them away.