is apprehended when the police open it to discover the precious jewels inside. Lanny watches from the front of the new billboard for The Diamond Smuggler as Annabel is driven away screaming. Cast Jack Oakie as Lanny Morgan Lucille Ball as Annabel Allison Ruth Donnelly as Josephine Bradley Page as Howard Webb Fritz Feld as Vladimir Dukov Thurston Hall as Major Elisabeth Risdon as Mrs. Margaret Fletcher Granville Bates as Jim Fletcher James Burke as Officer Muldoon Lee Van Atta as Robert Fletcher Anthony Warde as Bailey aka Rogers Leona Roberts as Mrs. Hurley Charles Coleman as The Butler, Perkins Brooks Benedict as Man in Webb's Office Stanley Blystone as Cop Maurice Cass as Dr. Rubnick Claire Du Brey as Convict Mildred Gover as Scarlet, the Maid Kane Richmond as Detective Madame Sul-Te-Wan as Benzedrina, a Convict John Sutton as Man at newsstand Reception In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Frank S. Nugent speculated that The Affairs of Annabel would be the first in a series: "A promising first, we might add; in a light farce vein, with some flip players in it. ... Between them, and with the help of a smartly written script, they have created an amusing trifle about a movie actress and a press agent with a Svengali complex. ... Miss Ball, who is rapidly becoming one of our brightest comediennes, plays it broadly and without a disruptive trace of whimsy." References External links 1938 films American black-and-white films 1938 comedy films Films directed by Benjamin Stoloff American comedy films Films about actors RKO Pictures films Films about filmmaking 1930s American films