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My Favorite Brunette

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My Favorite Brunette
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NR,1hr 25min
Genre:
Comedy
Released:
January 1, 1947
Director:
Elliott Nugent
Distributor:
Passport Video
Starring:
Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre  ...more
Synopsis: Just as Bob Hope's My Favorite Blonde (1942) was a takeoff on Alfred Hitchcock, Hope's My Favorite Brunette was a lampoon of the noirish "hard-boiled detective" school popularized by Raymond Chandler. Awaiting execution on death row, Hope tells the gathered reporters how he got into his present predicament. It seems that Hope was once a baby photographer, his office adjacent to the one leased by a private detective (played in an amusing unbilled cameo by Alan Ladd). While hanging around the p.i.'s ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler, AMG Review
Woody Allen often stated that Bob Hope was a major influence on his work, and this is especially clear in My Favorite Brunette. Many of the gags and one-liners given to Hope would not seem out of place coming from Allen, with the crucial difference that the former delivers them "sincerely," whereas coming from the latter they would be tinged with irony. Brunette is a send-up of the "private dick" film, ... Full Review
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Bob Hope
Ronnie Jackson
Dorothy Lamour
Carlotta Montay
Peter Lorre
Kismet
Lon Chaney, Jr.
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