My Favorite Brunette

My Favorite Brunette is a 1947 American romantic comedy film and Film Noir parody, directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour. Written by Edmund Beloin and Jack Rose, the film is about a baby photographer on death row in San Quentin State Prison who tells reporters his history. While taking care of his privateeye neighbors office, he is asked by an irresistible baroness to find a missing baron, which initiates a series of confusing but sinister events in a gloomy mansion and a private sanatorium. Spoofing movie detectives and the film noir style, the film features Lon Chaney, Jr. playing Willie, a character based on his Of Mice and Men role Lennie Peter Lorre as Kismet, a comic take on his many film noir roles and cameo appearances by film noir regular Alan Ladd and Hope partner Bing Crosby. Sequences were filmed in San Francisco and Pebble Beach, California.

Bosley Crowther of The New York Times liked it, saying Paramount knows a good thing when it sees one, especially when it earns a pile of bucks. And it also knows that there is magic in the juxtaposition of Mr. Hope and a dameany dame this side of Woodlawnand a preposterously turbulent plot. Thats why the Paramounts new picture, the aforementioned My Favorite Brunette, which candidly observes these criteria, is a commendably funny film.My Favorite Brunette was described by a reviewer for the St. Petersburg Times as a first rate Bob Hope performance. ........

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