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My Favorite Brunette is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Elliott Nugent released in USA on 4 april 1947 with Bob Hope
My Favorite Brunette (1947)
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Add to a movie listMy 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 private-eye neighbor's 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.
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The story is told in flashback from Death Row as Ronnie Jackson (Hope) relates to a group of reporters the events that lead to his predicament. Jackson is a baby photographer who dreams about being a real private detective like his friend Sam McCloud (Ladd). One day he is mistaken for a detective by a mysterious lady in distress (Lamour) and soon finds himself involved in a murder mystery. In the end of the flashback, Ronnie is released from prison.Actors
Bob Hope
(Ronnie Jackson)
Dorothy Lamour
(Baroness Carlotta Montay)
Alan Ladd
(Sam McCloud (uncredited))
Peter Lorre
(Kismet)
Lon Chaney, Jr.
(Willie)
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